Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Ever since they bottomed in mid-December, miners have been on a tear. Until yesterday, I was skeptical, but now that GDX and GDXJ have completely blown up their last levels of resistance, I’d...

Gold prices remained steady for the past 60 hours, trading mostly between 1,237 - 1,245. Prices just stayed flat despite bearish risk trends yesterday even though a clear bearish response was made...

Gold held steady early Friday, but was set to post its first weekly slump in four as better-than-expected data from the world’s largest economy offset the metal’s safe-haven appeal. The...

Crude oil advanced on Friday heading for its first weekly gains since late December after gaining support from a deeper-than-expected draw in US stockpiles. The EIA report on Wednesday showed that...

WTI Crude oil prices for February Expiry finished on a modestly weaker note with prices settling at $93.96 per barrel mark and lower by 0.2% for the day. In the Indian markets, we saw a further weaker...

Silver likewise gold depicted a tight movement in yesterday’s session though the commodity recorded a much weaker session as against gold prices and finished with a loss of 0.4% at the Comex...

Shale gas is not the foundation of U.S. energy security that conventional wisdom claims it is, says Bill Powers in this interview with The Energy Report. But as shale gas peters out, the law of supply...

As I continue to build my stance on USD over the coming weeks I turn to another commodity priced in the greenback, WTI.WTI MONTHLY: After my call for a 'multi-week low' on Oil in December I was mildly...

I track and follow approximately 50 different commodities and I must say that the softs sector where I do a fair bit of trading for clients is ignored too much in my opinion. In this piece I am going...

EIA Petroleum Report In reviewing the EIA weekly petroleum report, the oil imports figure came in at 6.889 (Million Barrels per Day) for the week ending 01/10/14. This number compared to a year...

Following up on our last article "The Knock-Out Criteria For Rare Earth Element Deposits", there were several comments that were noted from our readers, so I took the opportunity to discuss these with...

Gold slipped yesterday as the US dollar index and world stock indexes climbed. Both act as alternative asset classes for the precious metal. The Empire State’s manufacturing survey was...

WTI Crude headed higher as predicted and beat 9335/45 to reach strong resistance at 9475/85 which held a move higher as expected. We topped almost exactly here at 9464 and being overbought short term...

Corn meets 4 month trend line and short term Fibonacci support at 425/424 and being oversold, a low for the day is very possible here. However if we continue lower look for a buying opportunity at...