Via Energy and Gold.com: While the CFTC Commitments of Traders Report is far from an exact market timing tool, it does offer one of the best gauges of market positioning and sentiment. After Tuesday’s sell-off speculative positioning fell to a level of net length that has more often than not coincided with major lows:  … Continue Reading

Global Markets Rattled as Shanghai Index Crashes and Grexit Looms The ongoing Greek crisis and the continued collapse of the Shanghai and Shanzhen Indices (subsequently rebounding Thursday and Friday) dominated news during the week, with commodity prices and mining equities crashing; the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index fell below the 57 mark before recovering slightly at… Continue Reading

via EnergyandGold.com NexGen Energy (NXE:TSXV) is one of the hottest stocks on the TSX Venture in 2015. The share price has doubled this year based on positive exploration results at the Rook 1 project in Saskatchewan. With the recent merger of Fission Uranium and Dension NexGen is now the premier exploration stock in the uranium space. Raymond… Continue Reading

Repost from Jan 28, 2015. Over the past five years zinc bulls have gone nowhere. However, the metal, used primarily for galvanizing steel in the construction industry, is setting up for a substantial supply deficit as early as next year which could see the spot price pop. Investors interested in the zinc space have very… Continue Reading

There seems to be a lot going on in the uranium sector in terms of consolidation activity and market-related news so I invited Alex Molyneux, Founder of Azarga Resources and Chairman of Azarga Uranium Corp. (AZZ.TO) / (PWURF) (market cap ~ C$ 22 million) to answer a few pressing questions. Alex is based in Asia… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: All hell has been breaking loose for the last week. From the Shanghai stock market going into full crash mode to Greek citizens formally voting to leave the eurozone to the New York Stock Exchange halting trading for 4 hours, there’s been a lot to be concerned about if you’re an investor.… Continue Reading

A look at a few news releases that caught my eye this morning. Endeavour Silver – (EDR:TSX) – Endeavour Silver has released second quarter operating results this morning. Production was up 6% for silver and 14% for gold on a year over year basis. Investors will need to wait until financial results are released on… Continue Reading

Repost from earlier this year. Editor will be back next week… PDAC 2015: Lukas Lundin sets lofty goals as he re-enters gold game Legendary mining and oil tycoon Lukas Lundin has never been modest about his goals. So his latest targets probably shouldn’t surprise anyone, as eye-opening as they might sound. “I want Lundin Mining… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: The recent parabolic leveraged speculative rise and fall of the Shanghai Composite is reminiscent of silver’s epic rise and crash during 2011, have a look:  Silver (2010-2011)        Shanghai Composite (2014-2015)   While the chart structures are slightly different (silver rose 50% in barely 6 weeks while Shanghai took… Continue Reading

A look at what caught my eye this morning from mining companies and some comments on each news release. Note Doubleview Capital(DBV:TSXV) is halted pending news which I would expect to be drill assays on the bottom of Hole 23. Assays are pending for a third, wider chalcopyrite-pyrite zone that was visually observed to extend… Continue Reading

Repost from Mar 2015… Robert Hirschberg is a Toronto, Canada apparel industry entrepreneur and investor. For the past thirty five years, Mr. Hirschberg has been an active speculator in junior mining penny stocks, one of the highest-risk segments of all investing markets. In this video, you will hear how Mr. Hirschberg parlayed $20,000 at the… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: After a margin debt fueled parabolic ascent, China’s Shanghai Composite has been in virtual free-fall for the last month. Bloomberg put together an interesting chart which effectively illustrates the timeline of events which led to where we are at now:   Judging by media coverage and social media message volume we… Continue Reading

“Midstream” oil stocks are this attractive about once every decade, says Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott US Holdings. In a recent round-table with Byron King (Agora Financial) and Matt Badiali (Stansberry & Associates), Rick explained why he’s looking at one segment of the oil sector. You can listen to his full comments here (registration required):… Continue Reading

Peter Epstein, CFA, MBA   EpsteinResearch.com   @peterepstein2   As reported, Skeena Resources (SKE.V) announced an up-sized, non-brokered C$8.1 million capital raise with no warrants attached. This is a tremendous outcome that de-risks Skeena’s Spectrum project by eliminating funding risk for the next 12-18 months. A number of institutions invested in this round and the prior one, and allows the company to actively pursue… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: This morning we are seeing the first unmistakable signs that the China stock market crash will not be contained only to China. The silver break below $15 is pretty representative of what’s going on elsewhere this morning:   This morning’s break of support which had held for 9 months in silver… Continue Reading