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Jun 29 The Gold Price is About to Move Higher Franklin Sanders
Right now, silver is following gold, and y'all shouldn't expect that to change any time soon. At stake here for the Nice Government Men is keeping the gold price away from US$1,000. However, gold is tugging at the leash so hard it might reach US$1,000 before the fall, unseasonal as that might be....

Jun 29 International Forecaster June 2009 (#8) Bob Chapman
The Treasury plans of having the fox, the Fed, take over the chicken coop is pure insanity. These are the very people who caused the problem by encouraging mis-rating, securitization and lending that defied reality. Now the Fed is to become policeman. It is really insulting and removes any sense of security from the system....

Jun 29 What Summer Doldrums? Warren Bevan
It looks like the needed correction is now over for the precious metals and they are ready to move their way back up. Most commentators and traders remain bearish gold, but I am very bullish gold and their equities right now. Everything seems to be lining up for gold here and now. Even as India’s buying wanes during the summer months the strong demand by others and the realization that inflation is coming in a big way is keeping gold steady and about ready to make a break for the $1,200 to $1,300 level, at the very least, over the summer....

Jun 29 Technically Precious Merv Burak
Gold tried to rally during the week but the overall action was not too impressive. I guess the world is just not ready yet to collapse into ruin. Individuals, well that's a different story....

Jun 29 Gold Prepares For The Big One Roger Wiegand
Longer term charts tell the tale and block out daily trading noise. This weekly chart with a hugely bullish, inverted head and shoulders forecasts a major gold buying event later this year. This would be consistent with our forecasts of smashed stock markets after Labor Day 2009....

Jun 29 Gold. Are You Shooting Your Own Soldiers Stewart Thomson
In the GOLD market, your number one warning system is: Price. If price falls a bit, buy a bit. If price falls a lot, buy a lot. Hands up all those who think gold is a better buy now than at $250? The investor who bought at 990 is in the hole. The investor who bought at $250 has… quadrupled your money. End of argument....

Jun 29 Everybody Knows The Dice Are Loaded Aubie Baltin
Today's situation reminds me of a time back in the 1960's when I owned a cigarette vending machine business. As I was walking into the local illegal gambling joint where I had my 2 best machines, I bumped into a man who warned me that all the games were fixed and that he had just lost all of his money. So I asked him, "If you knew that all the games were fixed, why did you play? "It's the only game in town" he answered....

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Jun 26 Dragon's Hoard Michael J. Kosares
In the years to come, China will continue to steadily build its gold reserves through domestic production. It will also attempt to purchase whatever gold it can on the world market through official sector purchases or whatever additional means it finds at its disposal. In the process it will become the fire-breathing dragon in the gold market's living room - ubiquitous and formidable, a presence that cannot be ignored....

Jun 25 International Forecaster June 2009 (#7) Bob Chapman
This idea of a non-bank currency issued directly by a government free of any interest burden is along the lines of what Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy did, and tried to do, respectively, for the US. Their boldness in promoting the welfare of US citizens cost them their lives. They did not want to become interest slaves to a private national bank, and chose to issue our own official currency directly from our Treasury Department free of the interest burden imposed by a privately owned, debt-based, European-style fractional reserve banking system, which is what...

Jun 25 The Mysterious Omen that is 'Divisor Change' Richard Daughty
...big things happening is always a bad omen, unless you are looking for an omen to buy gold, silver and oil as protection against fiscal insanity, and monetary insanity, and the insanity of the government's Plunge Protection Team meddling in the markets, making it all so, so much worse....

Jun 25 How to Analyze Insider Selling in the Junior Mining Sector Dudley Baker
The junior mining sector has been performing much better in the last few months and we have seen many of the shares prices jump up substantially in price. Investors may be asking, 'is it too late to buy or should we sell?' One piece of information easily available to investors is the insider activity which we always factor into our decision making process. Frequently we see articles on...

Jun 25 Devolution: 20 Predictions Charles Hugh Smith
As we watch devolution in action over the next few years, observe how it is managed so the hapless frog won't jump from the pot. That is what they're counting on, of course; a devolution passively accepted by a media-duped, gadget-addicted, self-blaming, depressed, drugged-out populace. Put another way: devolution is what happens while the Delusionol (tm) wears off.

Jun 23 How Far? Franklin Sanders
I have been recommending that y'all buy silver and gold on any decline -- well, here's a big one. We have to be somewhere near a bottom. Remember that silver and gold are in a primary bull market, and they will be rising again after this correction....

Jun 23 Sentiment Suggests that PMs Are Likely to Shine Once Again P. Radomski
Please keep in mind that none of this is a "sure bet" that we will immediately go higher - there are no certainties in any market. However, in my opinion this scenario is likely and it seems that it will be profitable to bet on higher precious metals and mining stocks prices and to position yourself accordingly....

Jun 23 Gold Review for Monday 6/22/09 Thomas Hartmann
Commodity markets proved vulnerable today to worries about the economy. It appears that many markets have rallied hard over the past few months on the belief that the economy was turning a corner. But over the past week or so, doubt about such a recovery has crept into the market.

Jun 23 International Bailout Brings Us Closer to Economic Collapse Ron Paul
Last week Congress passed the war supplemental appropriations bill. In an affront to all those who thought they voted for a peace candidate, the current president will be sending another $106 billion we don't have to continue the bloodshed in Afghanistan and Iraq, without a hint of a plan to bring our troops home....

Jun 23 Technically Precious Merv Burak
Gold dropped a little during the week but really went nowhere in the whole scheme of things. Lots of conversation about where gold is headed, in my local technical googlegroup. Here, you only get the simple, “where are we now?” and “what is the existing direction of trend?”. When things change my indicators will change and I will change with them....

Jun 22 Silver Market Update Clive Maund
We are believed to be at a good entry point for silver here as the overall pattern is strongly bullish, and the predicted reaction of the past few weeks, which has served to unwind the earlier overbought condition, is now thought to have run its course....

Jun 22 Gold Market Update Clive Maund
Gold broke down and went into decline, as predicted in the last update posted early this month. At that time our maximum downside target was the strong support in the $880 area, but now there are strong signs that the decline has either run its course, or is close to having done so, and that a breakout to new highs may be close at hand....

Jun 22 International Forecaster June 2009 (#6) Bob Chapman
When everything else gets more expensive, and as fiat currencies are shown to be the "worthless paper" they really are, gold and silver will become the only real safe-havens from the resulting inflation and financial deterioration. That will then generate a demand for precious metals that is so great, it will drive the price of gold and silver up until they catch up with the overall supply of money and credit, and there is nothing the Fed can do to stop it, short of...

Jun 22 Active Traders Report for Gold, Silver, Oil & Nat Gas Chris Vermeulen
Precious metals like silver and gold have pulled back to support levels and trending sideways. This week will be interested as we watch prices bounce or breakdown. The energy sector looks be breaking down with more power as the bullish percent index for energy stocks dropped substantially last week....

Jun 22 Trading Gold With The Gold Direction Indicator Peter Degraaf
The price of gold often bottoms in early July and then meanders along, slow but steady, and after Labor Day gold takes out the top that is set in the spring. This is based on 35 years of historical data. This year, due to the massive Federal budget deficits, the bottom could come sooner, and the rate of increase could very well exceed historical rates of increase....

Jun 22 Silver/Gold Ratio Reversion 2 Adam Hamilton
Silver has endured a rather tough June so far. After peaking just under $16 on the 2nd, this white precious metal plunged 12% to just over $14 by the 15th. This is certainly a significant decline for less than 2 weeks, so silver traders are anxiously wondering what it portends. Will silver languish in the summer doldrums again this year?...