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Gold stocks have been pummeled mercilessly this month, their price action looking almost apocalyptic. The psychological stress spawned by such extreme weakness is intense, breaking the wills of this sector’s few remaining bulls. This week their selling cascaded into a full-blown capitulation, a ma...

Gold has had a rough time lately, grinding relentlessly lower.  Such technical weakness has naturally spawned increasingly bearish psychology.  This has led to a fringe view growing in popularity that gold’s mighty secular bull has already given up its ghost.  If these new-bear arguments are co...

With the US stock markets surging nearly a third higher in just 6 months, the odds are rising for a major topping.  As the best times to sell high, recognizing these events in real-time is very important for traders.  But it is a big challenge due to the gradual way toppings unfold.  An indicator...

Ever since the beginning of gold’s bull market, this metal’s economic balance has come under intense scrutiny.  Demand has been on the rise as more and more investors have embraced gold as a store of wealth.  And the supply chain has done its best to meet this growing demand. However consideri...

Commodities have been sinking like stones since late February, an unusual divergence from the rallying stock markets.  This relentless weakness has wreaked havoc on commodities sentiment, leading traders to abandon commodities stocks.  As we all try to make sense of this surreal bloodbath, one cat...

Gold has been weathering some considerable selling pressure lately, which has naturally turned sentiment quite pessimistic.  Bearish commentary abounds, with all kinds of predictions for further declines.  But as is usually the case after any material selloff spooks traders, gold’s technicals ar...

Sellers hammered gold again this week on news from the Fed.  The minutes from its latest FOMC meeting convinced traders the odds for a third round of quantitative easing are waning.  This was the latest in a long line of QE3 scares that have become the bane of gold’s existence.  But they are me...

Over the course of gold’s bull, the companies that explore for and mine this metal have greatly prospered.  The gold-stock sector has thus been one of the top-performing in all the markets over the last 10+ years, and its investors have been richly rewarded.  But this last year or so has been a ...

The beleaguered gold stocks have spiraled lower this month, heaping misery on poor fools like me naive enough to invest in them.  Dwindling interest and capital has left this realm a desolate wasteland, I’ve rarely seen anything so deeply out of favor.  In fact, relative to gold the gold stock...

The world’s stock markets are increasingly interrelated.  The psychology of traders, which drives most short-term price action, is continuously shaped by the nonstop torrents of global newsflow.  So even Americans can no longer afford to ignore what is going on in overseas markets.  And the i...

With Iran waxing belligerent again, oil has been making headlines lately.  Stock speculators and investors are anxiously watching its price, gaming how oil stocks are likely to react to various oil-price scenarios.  And since the oil complex has already enjoyed a strong upleg, plenty of topping fe...

The history of gold mining has been well-documented for thousands of years.  And with the demand for this most precious of metals going nearly as far back as human history, miners have ventured to just about every corner of the planet in their quest to find it.  Yet unlike the miners of yore that ...