Archive for January, 2010

Gold Stocks & The Market Forecast for 2010

I wrote a post here for ATP called “The bull case is not dead yet”. This ended up as an article on 321Gold.com, which you can review here: Bull Not Dead Article- Banister. I stuck my neck out, which I love to do once in awhile when the contrarian mood strikes me. I wrote a [...]

Gold Futures Trading Trend

Gold Futures Trading Trend – 60 Minute Candle Chart As you can see from the chart below gold has made a short term bottom and is trading at a major resistance level. The question is, does gold reverse and head sharply lower or does it break through the resistance level? Could this be the start [...]

Gold Closes Sharply Higher

February gold closed sharply higher on Wednesday as it extends this week’s breakout above the 20-day moving average. The high-range close sets the stage for a steady to higher opening on Thursday. Stochastics and the RSI remain bullish signaling that sideways to higher prices are possible near-term. If February extends this week’s rally, the reaction [...]

The Biggest Financial Deception of the Decade

By Jeff Clark, Editor, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report Enron? Bear Stearns? Bernie Madoff? They’re all big stories about big losses and have hurt a lot of employees and investors. But none come close to getting my vote for the decade’s most dastardly deception… First came Enron, with $65.5 billion in assets, going belly-up and [...]

Gold Higher

February gold was higher overnight and is testing resistance marked by the 20-day moving average crossing at 1116.90. Overnight weakness in the Dollar is helping to support the precious metals markets. Stochastics and the RSI remain neutral to bullish hinting that a short-term low might be in or is near. Closes above the 20-day moving [...]

GLD – Gold Exchange Traded Fund – 60 Minute Chart

Gold is in a strong bull market but the short term charts have provided over 13 short trades in the past 2 weeks for futures traders playing the bounces to resistance levels. The triangle on the 60 minute chart with declining volume is a continuation pattern of the short term trend which is down. Because [...]

Gold Is Heavy but could Rebound Here

Courtesy of Mark Brown Although December’s heavy sell off in the Gold (and Silver) market confirmed a significant set of monthly and weekly cycle highs, highs that may take this metal some time to meet/exceed, there now appears to be plenty of credible technical evidence to suggest that Gold may be ready to mount a [...]

Vietnam Halts Gold Trading; Global Imbalances Mount

MISH Citing speculation and excessive leverage Vietnam to put an end to gold trading. January 1 2010 Vietnam has ordered all gold trading floors to close by the end of March, putting an end to a business which turns over $1bn a day but which the government feared was spinning out of control. “Both the [...]