Gary Tanashian, NFTRHGold stocks have led the market for a year, and with economic deceleration and Fed policy response that leadership looks to continue [edit: today's 'in the bag' bounce-back Jobs report does little to alter the economic deceleration theme]We have been on a bullish gold mining view for over a year now. Over that time there have been three interruptions, the downward-biased c...Read More
Marin KatusaFor the first time since November 9th 2011, front month gold futures traded hands above $1,800 per ounce. It's now knocking on the door of a major technical resistance level.Naturally, this has every goldbug and self-proclaimed expert on YouTube shouting from the rooftops.Before we jump into what is going on in the current gold markets, lets first take a look at past gold bull marke...Read More
Gold, silver, and their miners' stocks suffer their weakest seasonals of the year in early summers. With traders' attention normally diverted to vacations and summer fun, interest in and demand for precious metals usually wane. Without outsized investment demand, gold tends to drift sideways dragging silver and miners' stocks with it. Feared as the summer doldrums, sometimes unusual cata...Read More
Gold just closed the month and quarter and itsperformance on the final day of both was very encouraging for the bulls. What’sgoing on and what changed?Let’s start with the big picture. Gold just moved to the November 2011 high and intoday’s pre-market trading it even moved above it. The volume on which goldmoved up last month was relatively small, which doesn’t support the...Read More
Some gold bulls have bought in heavily to the argument that gold price suppression has been an ongoing activity for years, even decades. Supposedly, trading in the gold market is manipulated in ways that depress the market price for gold.Assertions are made that the manipulation takes place in a shroud of secrecy; and the unexpected lower prices for gold, or prices that don’t meet wildly bul...Read More
Gold just closed the month and quarter and itsperformance on the final day of both was very encouraging for the bulls. What’sgoing on and what changed?Let’s start with the big picture. Gold just moved to the November 2011 high and intoday’s pre-market trading it even moved above it. The volume on which goldmoved up last month was relatively small, which doesn’t support the...Read More
Some gold bulls have bought in heavily to the argument that gold price suppression has been an ongoing activity for years, even decades. Supposedly, trading in the gold market is manipulated in ways that depress the market price for gold.Assertions are made that the manipulation takes place in a shroud of secrecy; and the unexpected lower prices for gold, or prices that don’t meet wildly bul...Read More
Gold just closed the month and quarter and itsperformance on the final day of both was very encouraging for the bulls. What’sgoing on and what changed?Let’s start with the big picture. Gold just moved to the November 2011 high and intoday’s pre-market trading it even moved above it. The volume on which goldmoved up last month was relatively small, which doesn’t support the...Read More
Some gold bulls have bought in heavily to the argument that gold price suppression has been an ongoing activity for years, even decades. Supposedly, trading in the gold market is manipulated in ways that depress the market price for gold.Assertions are made that the manipulation takes place in a shroud of secrecy; and the unexpected lower prices for gold, or prices that don’t meet wildly bul...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesJul 4, 2020Omineca Mining (OMM-V) will be inproduction shortly at the Wingdam project on Lighting Creek in BC. They are being very quiet about it butit’s happening. That’s a big deal and why the shares have shot from $.15 in the middle of May to a high of $.70 on July 2, 2020. Tom MacNeill as President and CEO heads Omineca.The MacNeill family also runs a company n...Read More
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* Shanghai shares hit five-year high on service sectorrecovery * U.S. payrolls jump 4.8 mln but hurdles lie ahead * European markets have subdued end to week * Copper on best weekly run in nearly three years * Rising U.S. COVID-19 cases threaten U.S. recovery * Graphic: World FX rates in 2020* By Marc JonesLONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - World shares stalled near afour-month high on Friday and the indu...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesJul 3, 2020I fully approve of garimpeiro miners. Rarely can they read and write. They can live under conditions that the majority of us could never handle. They mine in a totally different way than do the junior resource companies in the space. They all make money. That’s right, 100% of garimpeiro miners make money regardless of what the price of the commodity is. They h...Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321gold does the math on the two companies. WingdamOmineca Mining and Metals Ltd. (OMM:TSX.V; OMMSF:OTCMKTS) will be in production shortly at the Wingdam project on Lighting Creek in BC. They are being very quiet about it but it's happening. That's a big deal and why the shares have shot from $0.15 in the middle of May to a high of $0.70 on July 2, 2020. Tom MacNeill as President...Read More
Formulating a Trend ForecastIt is clear that Silver is NOT Gold, so NOT to make the mistake of looking at what Gold has done and thinking Silver will replicate that move, it rarely does! At best Silver tends to play catchup towards the end of precious metals bull trends.Silver is in a strong bull trend off the March low that is targeting resistance at $19 and then $20, beyond which lies $21. The b...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts his expectations for how silver prices will respond to movement in the stock market.Much of what is written in the parallel Gold Market update is equally applicable to silver and it will not be repeated here. Although silver has picked up significantly since its March low it has greatly underperformed gold over the past two years. But this is normal during the...Read More
Gold has broken out from a two-month-long consolidation (from $1680 to $1770), but the other precious metals markets have not confirmed Gold’s strength.The gold stocks (GDX, GDXJ) remain below their May highs while Silver remains below significant, multi-year resistance around $18.75. Silver closed Monday at $18.06.Furthermore, Gold, when priced against foreign currencies, has not broken out...Read More
We all fear the second wave of infections. But the U.S. hasn’t evencontrolled the first one! Bad news for Americans, but good news for gold. Please take a look at the chart below. As you can see, the epidemiological situation in the UnitedStates does not look well. The number ofnew daily confirmed Covid-19 cases has been rising again since mid-June,which means that coronavirus is far from be...Read More
Formulating a Trend ForecastIt is clear that Silver is NOT Gold, so NOT to make the mistake of looking at what Gold has done and thinking Silver will replicate that move, it rarely does! At best Silver tends to play catchup towards the end of precious metals bull trends.Silver is in a strong bull trend off the March low that is targeting resistance at $19 and then $20, beyond which lies $21. The b...Read More