If you have been watching the TSX Venture index for the past few months and watching as most of your investments appear to be fading away, you’re not alone. Just looking at the 6 month Venture Index chart can make anybody’s stomach turn. The index has been in a virtual free fall for months now [...]

The TSX Composite is looking like a bit of a dog.  The S&P 500 is looking a bit like a star. Is this what QE does when Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve print money? Is the weakness and lack of conviction of the ineffectual Harper Conservative government in Canada the primary driver behind the [...]

Gold miners have been hit hard because of an anticipated drop in gold prices due to bad technicals, lack of quantitative easing, a slowing economy in China and overall bearish analysts. In order to best describe this, let’s take a look at the chart of GDX (Market Vectors Gold Miners). As we can see below, [...]

Although I recently wrote about how bullish I was, along with many other fund managers are about gold, in the near term, gold and particularly the major gold producing company’s stocks have taken some serious technical damage that may take some time to recover from. Although, free money policies and the debasing of currencies that [...]

Silver has always been considered golds poor cousin. The saying went that if you can not afford gold you buy silver. If you can’t afford that nice gold necklace for your girlfriend, you buy here the silver one that only costs you a fraction of the price. That idea may be changing, especially for precious [...]

While it is really not entirely clear which way gold is headed, as it is impossible to predict the stock market or precious metal prices for that matter, it is possible to glean and make educated guess on the direction of a commodity based on the chart. This is of course known as technical analysis, [...]

It seems like only this past summer, gold was unstoppable. It was trading to new all time highs almost daily and euphoria was rampant. Then September came around and gold prices took a serious hit dropping from it’s all time highs of around $1,900/oz to almost $1,600/oz in what seemed to be a blink of [...]

Gold prices have had a tremendous rally in 2011. In fact this rally has been going on for quite some time now and over 2011, that rally has done nothing but accelerate; at least in the short term. I have discussed in an earlier article how central banks around the world have been buying up [...]

Silver has always been known as ‘the poor man’s gold,’ but it has many more uses than just a shiny metal to look at.  According to the silver institute, “Demand for silver is built on three main pillars: industrial and decorative uses, photography, and jewelry & silverware. Silver has a number of unique properties including [...]

With all the uncertainty in global financial markets, it appears that once again, gold is taking center stage as the safe bet in crazy times. Predicting if gold will rise or fall based on social, economic or geo-political implication s is tricky business. Therefore, a technical analysis is merited in order to better understand what [...]