Commodities Analysis & Opinion

CLOil prices rose on Wednesday after data revealed that U.S. stockpiles made an unexpected drop last week, while an OPEC decision to leave output levels unchanged supported prices as well. The U.S....

Gold prices eased early Thursday following a 2% gain in the previous session, as traders eyed the upcoming policy decision from the European Central Bank (ECB) and US weekly jobless claims.The bullion...

Crude oil is almost flat on Thursday after crude inventories shrank for the first time in 11 weeks in the US, the world’s biggest oil consumer; some downside pressures on prices may be imposed...

Gold was a little tinker yesterday, making new 1211 lows and reversing direction, flying higher and leaving the bewildered sellers grabbing at straws trying to buy back their short positions. Up we...

Throughout October, I was regularly updating the blog with short term price action in various asset classes, which represented trading opportunities. One of those was the triangular pattern in Gold...

I have been talking for some time about oil futures, and in recent times I have mentioned a breakout that was clearly in the works for the pair. Additionally, as of a few days ago, that breakout...

Hourly ChartAnd the numbers are in! Latest inventory numbers from Department of Energy showed a first decline in Crude Stocks in 11 weeks, and what a decline it was - 5.59 million barrels in total,...

Mining stocks may have moved from a bear market to a place where they are becoming contrarian plays, says Mike Niehuser, founder of Beacon Rock Research, opening opportunities for value investing....

As the table below shows, the short-term momentum on key agriculture commodities is predominantly still pointing higher, but a couple of warning signs have emerged. That is especially so in the soft...

Having replaced savings with debt on both the national and individual levels, I think it's well past time for Westerners to take a few lessons from our creditors in the East. Many Americans consider...

From a technical view, the ETF is bouncing off its lower Bollinger band which is rising now. Regarding technical indicators, the weekly RSI is still neutral after the upside breakout of a bearish...

My trading partner JW and I had a great talk the other day which spurred the creation of this interesting and educational gold futures trading article we wanted to share with you. Throughout most of...

With silver once again holding above the June lows—but with price still 60% of its peak—future catalysts for the price of silver may seem hard to find. Commodity prices are also sharply...

According to a recent publication from the American Chemical Society, a study performed by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Columbia University Earth Institute of New York came to...