Commodities Analysis & Opinion

As the great aircraft of the world hurtle down the tarmac toward takeoff, cockpit crews are attendant to an acute speed and remaining runway distance calculation known as "V1", that final moment to...

It’s always amazing to me how market sentiment can move from one extreme to the other, taking the herd with it. Chartology is the study of charting and investor psychology which, when you put...

Gold prices pushed higher on open this morning, continuing the bullish trend that was seen during US session last Friday. Prices were lifted by weaker than expected Housing Starts and U. of Michigan...

2013 was the year that everything, and the kitchen sink, got thrown at the precious metals market. The massive liquidation of the GLD ETF along with practically every Wall Street firm and broker...

The sugar market has begun the year extremely pressured, surprising a large portion of traders and analysts (myself included) who did not believe that prices could breach the low of 15.93 cents per...

It's been my opinion for the last several weeks that gold formed an intermediate degree bottom on December 31. That being said I'm still a bit nervous that the sector could suffer another manipulation...

What will it take to turn the gold market around? One would think it would be obvious that fundamentals are not the answer, while so many believe that fundamentals rule. We are reminded of the...

Here's another update of our Value Trap series that contrasts the precious metals miners with the biggest value trap of the previous cycle - the financials. Broadly speaking, the comparative looked at...

Gold firmed in early New York trading to retest the high from earlier in the week at 1255.35, despite a push in the dollar index to new eight-week highs. The greenback was bolstered by fresh...

Record high after record high with April live cattle trading near $140 Thursday before stalling.Line In The SandThe red horizontal line drawn on the chart below serves as my line in the sand. It will...

The gold price has been subdued this week as a result of better-than-expected data from the US economy and US stock-index performances which are either near or at record (or multi-year) highs.Both US...

Investors’ interest in silver is starting to rebound after last year’s carnage. As capital prepares to return to this beaten-down asset, many investors are wondering how to game silver...

We present Commodity Trends 2014, which includes five themes to drive the markets this year:Theme 1: geopolitical risks abatingGeopolitical risks are abating as momentum is growing in the negotiations...

Silver (SI, SLV) has fallen hard from its peak price at nearly $50 per ounce and with some stabilization just over $19 an ounce investors are hoping that the worst may be over. After all a 60% haircut...