Silver Was Our Best Bet

Our editorial team was unanimous in expecting the precious metal markets to start this week in a seriously upbeat mood. Silver was our bet for outperforming gold, platinum and other PGMs after the expected profit taking at the end of last week turned out not to be as severe as we thought. Read more

Gold Price Action May Be Signaling the Next Big Move Up

The price action in gold and silver this week may be signaling the next big move up. Our sample of technical analysts seem to bear this out and we have little doubt that those fundamentals that have been in place for what seems an eternity are now strongly influencing the bullish decisions of many speculators in precious metals.  Read more

Precious Metals Underlying Strength

Despite stock markets looking increasingly fragile as the dawning realization by investors that the underlying problems of unemployment and weak housing have not been placated by quantative easing (aka money printing), gold, silver, platinum etc. have shown their underlying strength as the recession looks set to continue. Read more

Silver Takes A Back Seat

Instead of slavishly following the price of gold in its usual historic way, silver has taken a back seat in the last few weeks.

As has been oft repeated on these pages, the gold/silver ratio has averaged well below 60 in earlier times and, for about the last year or so has wavered around 65 and encouragingly been declining as both metals reached new highs, in silver’s case for the last twenty years and longer.

Now we see the ratio at over seventy despite gold holding its own so what is going on? Read more

Gold Shows Signs For Bullish Optimism

At first glance it looks as if gold has not done a lot this week but looking beneath the obvious there are encouraging signs for bullish optimism. Since the plunge earlier this month there have been indications that could be interpreted that the gold bull market may be coming to an end. Read more

Is There A Bright Side To The Week’s Gold Plunge?

Despite the slaughter on Wall Street this week as reality took center stage, spot gold ended up only $20 down during this period. Over the previous month, however, things have looked far from encouraging on the surface for gold bulls. Spot Gold has tumbled from over $1160 at its peak to Friday’s after hours close at $1066. “ Courage mes enfants” as Napoleon is supposed to have exhorted his elite guard at Waterloo, for we forecast a bright side to this months gold plunge. Read more

Gold Bulls – Are They In Retreat?

In the second week of January spot gold traded at a high of just over $1160 an ounce. Today, Feb 1st., less than three weeks later we are looking at early European trade of $1080, which is about as low as it has been this year. Does then mean that gold bulls are in retreat? We do not think so, in fact far from it! Read more

Platinum Price Reservations

Our reservations concerning the Platinum price became firmer as last week progressed. Given that US investors in general have had the opportunity to play the platinum market in earnest for the first time, it is not surprising that since the launch of the platinum ETF (PPLT-NYSE) the week before last met with such enthusiastic buying. Read more

A Great Opportunity To Top Up On Silver & Gold

The stock market has taken a substantial fall in the last two days. The question is whether this is due to the dawning realization by investors that they have been living in a fantasy world. Read more

Platinum Investors Beware!

Since the launch the week before last, of the new Platinum ETF (PHPT) trading on the NY exchange, the precious metal has seen some very large gains.

This ETF operates along similar lines to the gold (GLD) & silver (SLV) ETFs traded in the US where they hold physical metal in vaults to the approx value of the money invested in each fund. Read more

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