Commodities Analysis & Opinion

As Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes the world’s movie theaters by storm, U.S. utilities, the Public Utility Commissions that govern them, and solar energy companies are increasingly fighting...

I recently put an order for PowerShares DB Oil (N:DBO), an oil ETF that consists of underlying futures contracts of a variety of durations, to buy it at $8.75. The chart below shows its price, with...

Saudi/Iran Tensions Spike; A Look at OOil: Welcome back to your trading desks for the new year, now let’s make sure it’s a good one! Well, it didn’t take long to set up a massive new...

That title pretty much sizes up where we are in transiting to the new year. As was the case in 2013 and 2014, Gold throughout 2015 continued to be outed, disparaged and impugned; we now see 2016 as...

N:SLV – on buy signal. Silver remains on major sell signal, however, prices are now at 200ema support and a major buy signal can materialize in the months ahead. Speculation has reached levels...

Lots of chop for markets as we wound down a so-so year.Setups are forming and traders will return this coming week so volume will pick back up and if all goes well, leading stocks will begin to...

I guess that gold will test $1,000 this year and make big bearish headlines before any long lasting rebound can be expected. Original post

Oil: Negative 2015The oil futures market was down around 30% in 2015 depending upon which contract you look at, and provided some nice trading setups both from the long and short side this past year....

The London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminum price has risen from the low $1,400s per metric ton in October to the mid $1,550s this week.At the same time, the Japanese have started settling first quarter...

Corn Market 2015 I have been watching corn prices lately as they are getting low enough to at least pique my interest into looking at a market that usually just gets bypassed with the rest of my...

Should auld markets be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld markets be forgot and auld lang sine?Not on you life! Oil put in its second back-to-back losing years since the eighties but...

The precious metals sector will close 2015 entrenched in a seemingly forever bear market. Most of the sector has been in a bear market for over four and a half years. Gold's bear market will reach...

The market price of gold would be considerably higher if it wasn’t for the massive stock dilution and debt in the gold mining industry. Basically, the gold mining industry issued billions of new...

2015 Turned out to be the worst year for metal producers in the past few decades. Not only because of the size of the price decline, which was big, but because prices have fallen from what many...