The gold ratios are not buying it either. Gold has gone AROON trend up as measured in silver, commodities and industrial metals. As long as this persists, the bulls are heading for sadness, as are any bears getting blown out of their shorts here. Bear in mind I am market neutral (gaini ... Read more

The Federal Reserve displays utter disregard for the dollar. G-20 anticipates feeding off the current abusive trend so that it can sell the global public on the recovery story. Timmy goes before our Asian 'partners' and delivers a Snow job to feign support of the world's reserve currency with all ... Read more

"The wider deficit was driven by a big rise in imports, led by a jump in oil shipments. That overwhelmed a fifth consecutive increase in exports. Exports are expected to continue to rise on the back of a weakening dollar, but as the economy improves, imports should increase as well." --Reuters addt ... Read more

Either the uptrend in the stock market is going to conclude or the gold-silver ratio is going to go back down. As long as the short term positive correlation between the two remains in place, it is a bearish divergence for the stock market. Call me a perma-bear if you like, just don't call me ... Read more

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner offered fresh reassurances to Asian nations that the Obama administration was committed to a strong dollar and to actions aimed at bolstering its value. I've seen this movie before, think the Chinese. "It's very important ... Read more

Amid all the noise to the upside in the precious metals and all of us thus far ill-fated top callers in the broad markets and commodities, it seems that a little sector known as the U's is looking very interesting. I think that NFTRH59 is going to do some technical analysis on the sector itself ... Read more

For those into the short term on the relic, here is a good video from Ino.com: What's Gold's Next Stop? Separately, Ino is also featuring a seminar with John Murphy , he of 8 books on technical analysis and founder of my beloved stockcharts.com . Check it out - a TA giant is Mr. Murphy ... Read more

Price action is bullish. There, we got that out of the way. The technicals on the Dow however, continue to meander along, slowly degrading as the dumb money becomes emboldened. I guess I am becoming something of a perma-bear, but then again I was persistently bullish beginning a year ago. Good ... Read more

This was written almost exactly 2 years ago. I am dredging it up again because I turn on CNBC and it's 'gold this and gold that' and all the inflation experts getting everybody discombobulated once again with inflation fears... the 'silver is undervalued vs. gold' story getting pumped now 24/7... go ... Read more

I must kiss pretty pretty Gigi goodbye once again. Trade is done off of this buy and I have plenty of smaller miners with more value embedded, in the event that Gigi wants to go for the top line of the trend channel, because then HUI would do the same and the smaller miners and explorers would ... Read more