Via Energy and Gold.com: Nobody cares about gold miners anymore. There I said it. The level of overall investor disinterest in this sector must be at an all-time low. Now let’s be clear here, i’m not saying that bearish sentiment is at a record (I believe it will be difficult to top last November in… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: During my twelve years of trading virtually every financial market and instrument imaginable I have learned that the best trades are anticipated and prepared for days, weeks, and sometimes months in advance. Moreover, the best trading setups occur when multiple indicators/factors come into alignment like stars in the sky. Gold has… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: GDX passed an important test of support today. The goldies were looking absolutely dreadful this morning but buyers showed up near a crucial area of support around lunchtime and put the throttle to the floor into the close:   $18.75 not only represents a DeMark Support Level but it also represents… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: Weekly chart wrap for the week ending 6/5/2015 – we saw some seismic moves in interest rates as equities began to show some chinks in their armor. The current trends are as follows: Oil: Oscillating within a range Precious metals: Lower Bond yields: Higher Equities: Oscillating within a range   WTI… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: As John Maynard Keynes famously stated “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?”. I am very close to changing my mind on the direction of long-term interest rates. The chart of the 10-year US Treasury Note yield shows that a formidable bottoming pattern has been formed… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: One of the things I noticed early on in investing in junior mining equities is that they follow technical patterns fairly well. In other words, the charts are much cleaner indications of investor supply & demand with much less influence from HFT (high-frequency trading) and hedge funds than one sees in… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: The EUR/USD currency pair is fast approaching a key technical crossroads :   The ~1.15 level represents support/resistance from January/February and also roughly equates to a 50% retracement of the entire December-March decline from 1.2556 to 1.0462. One can also easily discern a fairly clean bottoming pattern similar to a complex… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: US based gold producer Newmont Mining (NEM) has been a serial underperformer in recent years with shares falling more than 70% from its late-2011 all-time high to the December 2014 low. However, things may be on the verge of turning around for Newmont investors. The stock has carved out a very clear… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: We have been all over Continental Gold (CNL.TO) during 2015 and our persistence has rewarded readers who paid attention. Despite a relatively lackluster junior gold sector shares of CNL have performed superbly with a 35%+ gain year-to-date:   CNL carved out a head & shoulders bottom pattern between February and April of… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: Last week was a messy one for the gold miners. It began with yet another failure to break-out above resistance followed by what was shaping up to be a steep decline before buyers stepped in and price closed down a modest 1.48% for the week. While the price action remains messy,… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: This is an interesting graphic courtesy of RBC illustrating a large drop-off in managed money (CTAs, commodity pool operators, etc.) positioning in commodity futures: After reaching extremely high net long exposure earlier last year before the crude oil crash, managed money positioning has fallen off a cliff and moved down to a… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: Famed bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach gave a presentation at the New York Yacht Club today in which he reiterated a $1,400 target for gold by year end. From what I gather Gundlach has two primary tenets to his bullish gold thesis: Negative interest rates in Europe will make gold very… Continue Reading

Via TD Securities equity research: Over the weekend, Continental Gold announced that its was on track to complete permitting for its Buriticá (100%) gold project in Colombia, by the end of Q2/15. Management suggested that for an update expected at the end of Q2/15 it has an internal target of seeing mineral resources grow by… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: It now seems like eons ago but at the end of last year I published a post titled “6 Big Surprises for 2015” in which I laid out a series of seemingly unlikely market events which I felt were much likelier to occur than the consensus believed. While it’s definitely too early to judge the… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: GDX is up nearly 6% this week. Is this rally for real? From all indications the answer is a resounding YES! Here’s why: The chart pattern breakout from the multi-week ascending triangle is the real deal and targets a move to at least $22    The bottoming process which began in… Continue Reading