There is a difficult trend in the mining industry; something that should be a warning for gold stock investors. If you’re invested in this space, you need to be aware of what’s going on and that is the cost of producing an ounce of gold is soaring.

On June 20, 2012, the Federal Reserve had their big meeting of the FMOC (Federal Open Market Committee). The Markets had been pricing in a new round of QE3 where the Fed was going to start again buying Treasuries directly in order to inject liquidity into the markets. The markets ran up in anticipation;  as [...]

It seems that this year, investing in physical gold would have been a much better investment than investing in mining stocks. Mining company stock, pretty much across the board, have sunk to their biggest discount ever for 2012, when compared to the price of the resources (gold, silver, etc.) they produce. As many investors worry [...]

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, [...]

A growing number of technical indicators suggest that the market is running out of steam. These include the longer term RSI (relative Strength Index), the MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) and others. Equities have been in a temporary unrelenting uptrend where investors have been factoring in a strong U.S. economic recovery while also anticipating that [...]

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 [...]

There are a lot of hedge fund, mutual funds and traders who are bullish on gold miners lately. Relatively speaking, the gold miners are cheap after investors fled the sector thinking the gold bull was over. In case you are scared of the big decline that happened in gold prices, the gold miners aren’t dead [...]

We have grown accustomed to seeing gold prices rocket ever higher all year long, but as we near the end of 2011, something has changed.  Gold may not be the wondrous ever increasing in value commodity that everyone has come to love.  Now that even farmer Joe and his dog fluffy own gold, it’s probably [...]

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 [...]

There has been an interesting trend of late. Everyone is well aware of the rise in the price of precious metals, particularly gold, but the unstable economic environment many investor are now asking themselves a fundamental question. “Where is the safest place for me to to store my gold?” For many, it’s not a bank, [...]