news.goldseek.com >> 16 May 2008

Money Inflation
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Due to all kinds of prices rising to levels that would have seemed inconceivable only a few years ago, inflation concerns are mushrooming today. And if there is anyone still not worried about inflation yet, they soon will be. Rising food and energy costs really affect the daily lives of nearly everyone on the planet.

news.goldseek.com >> 9 May 2008

Gasoline, Diesel, and Oil
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Gasoline, usually taken for granted, is weighing heavily on consumer sentiment today. In the States, the AAA just reported that retail gas soared to an average of $3.65 per gallon nationwide! This all-time record high is motivating Americans to drive less, drive slower, and migrate to more efficient cars to save fuel.

news.goldseek.com >> 2 May 2008

Junior Golds and CDNX
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
While recent activity in the gold stock sector has caused many of its battle-hardened investors to capitulate, the tried and true speculators still holding strong in the junior-gold-stock realm are feeling beaten and bloodied.

news.goldseek.com >> 25 April 2008

Dollar-Neutral Crude Oil
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Crude oil is one of the hottest commodities on the planet these days. Almost without respite, it has surged 16% in April alone! It closed at new all-time record highs on 8 of the past 11 trading days. Pushing $120 per barrel now, the fabled $100 price point that the markets feared for so many years now seems modest.

news.goldseek.com >> 18 April 2008

Gold, Silver, HUI Technicals
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
After an exceptionally turbulent month in the precious-metals complex, many traders are trying to make sense out of all the chaos. Did the recent violent retreats in gold, silver, and the HUI gold-stock index likely mark the ends of their respective uplegs? Or do these strong uplegs probably remain intact?

news.goldseek.com >> 11 April 2008

Global Gold 4
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Of all the countless investments worldwide, gold is easily the most universally recognized. From the biggest banks in premier cosmopolitan cities to the smallest vendors in this planet’s dustiest corners, everyone knows gold. This metal’s timeless intrinsic value is beyond dispute and is welcome everywhere.

news.goldseek.com >> 4 April 2008

Big HUI Daily Moves
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
For precious-metals stock traders, weathering outsized volatility is a fact of life. Yet again over the last few weeks this truth was really driven home. The flagship HUI gold-stock index experienced some neck-snapping swings. And this generated much angst for those not yet steeled against such extreme volatility.

news.goldseek.com >> 28 March 2008

Junior Gold Stocks 3
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
“Junior gold stocks” is a three-word expression that for some breeds dismay, trepidation, and anger. But for others it illuminates excitement, opportunity, and profits. Regardless of which camp an investor resides, one thing is for certain. During this fantastic 7-year-running secular gold bull, the junior gold stock realm has been host to a highly-volatile range of sentimental extremes.

news.goldseek.com >> 23 March 2008

HUI Bull Seasonals 2
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
After an incredibly volatile week for the precious metals, PM-stock traders are very worried. Despite Bernanke’s Fed forcing real interest rates even more massively negative, gold plunged. The PM-stock traders, never paragons of courage anyway, panicked. The HUI gold-stock index plummeted with gold.

news.goldseek.com >> 14 March 2008

Big SPX Daily Moves
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
On Tuesday March 11th, the flagship S&P 500 (SPX) stock index rocketed 3.7% higher in a single trading day! This big rally proved a welcome respite for embattled stock traders. Not only did it nicely boost most sectors, but it temporarily dispelled the oppressive fog of fear billowing out of the mortgage markets.

news.goldseek.com >> 7 March 2008

Real Rates and USDX
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
After sliding to its lowest levels in history this week, the flagging US dollar has captured the limelight. And it certainly should. The dollar is like nothing else, a critical linchpin that links every market and asset of global importance. The implications of the dollar’s fall from grace are profound and universal.

news.goldseek.com >> 29 February 2008

PGM Bull Markets
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
The precious metals are in the midst of fantastic secular bull markets. And one of the most precious of metals, platinum, has been getting a lot of attention in recent weeks. With geopolitical strife accentuating platinum’s current supply shortfalls, speculators have grabbed hold of this metal and launched its price into a parabolic ascent.

news.goldseek.com >> 22 February 2008

HUI Upleg Structure
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Despite very difficult prevailing stock-market conditions, the HUI unhedged gold-stock index has soared 55% since mid-August! You’d think gold-stock traders would be thrilled with such awesome gains. Instead they are very disappointed, because gold itself is up 45% over this same period of time and the HUI hasn’t adequately leveraged its gains.

news.goldseek.com >> 15 February 2008

XOI vs. Oil and SPX
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Crude oil’s fundamentals are extraordinarily bullish. Global demand for oil is growing relentlessly, and most consumers have little choice but to pay virtually any price for this critical fuel. Meanwhile global production growth is slowing as old oilfields deplete and major new finds become exceedingly rare.

news.goldseek.com >> 8 February 2008

HUI Leverage to Gold 4
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
As a stock-market sector, gold stocks are obscure, increasingly volatile, and seemingly perpetually unloved. Yet investors and speculators choose to own them anyway. Why? Because in the past gold stocks have greatly amplified gold’s underlying gains. Traders are betting this outperforming behavior will continue in the future.

news.goldseek.com >> 1 February 2008

Commodities Investing
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
The financial markets are always exhilarating. And as a student of the markets, I’ve learned over the years that their dynamics leave no room for boredom. Whether bull, bear, or monotonous grind in either direction, there is always something new and exciting going on.

news.goldseek.com >> 25 January 2008

SPX Secular Bears
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Back in early October when the benchmark S&P 500 stock index was hitting all-time highs, “bear” was a heretical four-letter word. Merely letting it roll off your tongue or spill from your pen offered a fast track to pariah status. In the best of times, people tend to forget that the worst of times are even possible anymore.

news.goldseek.com >> 18 January 2008

Real Silver Highs 2
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Gold is definitely not the only commodity enjoying a very happy new year. The strong global investment demand for precious metals has spilled over into silver as well. Just last week, silver soared above $16 for the first time since January 1981! Silver investors are naturally very excited about this dazzling 27-year high.

news.goldseek.com >> 11 January 2008

HUI and Stock Bears 2
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
The young new year has not been very happy at all for the stock markets. In the first five trading days of 2008 alone, the S&P 500 bled a brutal 5.3%. This sharp slide nearly doubled the SPX’s losses since early October to 11.2%. Once a general-market correction exceeds 10%, Wall Street gets nervous.

news.goldseek.com >> 4 January 2008

CRB False Witness
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
If you see someone trying to draw technical CRB conclusions across mid-2005 without using the CCI, know you are being misled. Odds are the analyst is merely naïve, but in some cases the false witness may be intentional to further the analyst’s own hidden agenda. You can’t thrive and trade optimally during a secular bull without a comparable and accurate yardstick to measure its entire bull-to-date performance.

news.goldseek.com >> 28 December 2007

Base Metals Stockpiles & Prices 3
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Research
But while these stockpile builds have led to the shedding of some of the speculative risk premiums attached to the prices of the base metals, their respective bull markets remain healthy. Prices are still on the high side of their secular uptrends and stockpile levels are still historically low. A base metals correction is healthy in order to balance sentiment for the next push higher.

news.goldseek.com >> 21 December 2007

HUI/Gold Ratio Trends 2
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
If you are a gold-stock investor, the dark cold days surrounding the winter solstice seem exceptionally fitting this year. As the warm sunlight has largely fled the northern hemisphere, so has bullish sentiment largely fled the gold stocks. Thankfully as inevitably as sun returning to the north, gold-stock sentiment too will thaw.

news.goldseek.com >> 14 December 2007

Euro Gold Records
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
So watch euro gold closely in the coming weeks and months. Few things motivate international investors to buy gold like new record highs. We just saw one last month, and euro gold sure looks like it is basing high ahead of surging up to another record attempt soon. It should be fun to behold.

news.goldseek.com >> 7 December 2007

GDX Gold-Stock ETF
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Investing and speculating in gold stocks is a very risky business. While they tend to greatly leverage the underlying gains in gold during a secular gold bull, individual stocks face a wide variety of perils on their journey to legendary gains. As a scary recent example illustrates, sometimes these perils can be catastrophic.

news.goldseek.com >> 30 November 2007

Gold-Producing Stocks
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
In the wild and whacky world of gold stocks, investors and speculators have a wide range of options for capital deployment. These options can be categorized in many different ways, but it all boils down to risk. The degree of risk varies from extremely risky with the junior gold explorers to just plain risky with the large senior producers.

news.goldseek.com >> 23 November 2007

Stock Trading 101
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence
Are you interested in trading in the stock markets? Do you have questions about getting started? You are certainly not alone. Almost weekly I hear from ordinary folks with basic questions about trading stocks. After addressing these on a consulting basis for years, I’ll outline some of the basics in this essay.

news.goldseek.com >> 16 November 2007

Gold ETF Impact 3
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Three years ago on November 18th a landmark event polarized the gold world. The first gold exchange-traded fund to trade in the United States, the StreetTracks Gold Shares, was launched. Although born in controversy, even GLD’s original detractors cannot argue with this ETF’s stunning success since.

news.goldseek.com >> 9 November 2007

Trading the Gold-Stock Bull 6
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Gold, which was a scoffed-at pariah not too many years ago, suddenly finds itself on the verge of being almost sexy again. With this metal now challenging its all-time nominal high from January 1980, I am hearing from more ordinary non-market-following folks who are newly interested in gold investing.

news.goldseek.com >> 2 November 2007

Base Metals Technicals 4
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
The global commodities bull has sure been flexing its muscles in recent years. And this is a result of our growing world’s insatiable demand for the hard commodities that feed widespread industrialization and modernization. Since these commodities are finite in nature, an economic imbalance has emerged that has showcased incredible market activity.

news.goldseek.com >> 26 October 2007

Silver Lagging Gold
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
While this long-established silver behavior doesn’t alter long-term bullishness on silver one bit, it really should readjust trader expectations. Like soldiers describing war as mostly boredom punctuated by occasional sheer terror, so is silver trading. We need to expect long periods of boring consolidations and relative underperformance to gold before silver suddenly shoots parabolic and earns us fortunes within months.

news.goldseek.com >> 19 October 2007

Oil Bull Cycles
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
After powering above $85 per barrel this week, crude oil is one of the hottest commodities around. Although this week’s stellar prices haven’t yet reached oil’s all-time inflation-adjusted highs near $100 from way back in spring 1980, these new nominal record prices are really getting speculators’ blood flowing.

news.goldseek.com >> 12 October 2007

Wheat and Inflation
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
With gold challenging $750 and oil quite comfortable north of $80, this young autumn trading season has already proven exceedingly exciting and profitable for commodities investors. But for students of the markets, today’s price levels in the metals and energy complex are certainly not surprising. Over six years ago the fundamentals already pointed to an inevitable worldwide commodities boom.

news.goldseek.com >> 5 October 2007

HUI Bull Seasonals
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
As the nights lengthen, the leaves change color, and the chill winds of autumn begin to blow, the seasons are on everyone’s mind this time of year. But it is not only these natural seasons driven by orbital mechanics that are changing. The most bullish seasonal time of the year for the precious metals and their miners is nearly upon us.

news.goldseek.com >> 28 September 2007

Gold Mining Challenges
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
With gold once again above $700/oz, there is a renewed interest in gold stocks. Throughout the course of this gold bull it is indeed the gold stocks that have provided investors with excellent leverage to the rising price of gold. These companies that are responsible for bringing the metal to market should be well positioned to greatly profit in a secular gold bull.

news.goldseek.com >> 21 September 2007

Real Gold Highs 2
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Holy cow! How about that gold price this week? With the Ancient Metal of Kings powering to awesome new bull-to-date highs, gold traders are rejoicing. The Bernanke Fed’s reckless decision on Tuesday to shove the ailing US dollar off a cliff has really ignited a fire under international gold investment demand.

news.goldseek.com >> 14 September 2007

HUI Upleg Cycles
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
While the technicals alone are compelling, the unique position of gold today really ramps up the probabilities that the next major HUI upleg is imminent or already unfolding. Miners can’t keep pace with gold demand growth and the big autumn buying season is approaching. And all-time US dollar lows could drive gold investment demand the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades.

news.goldseek.com >> 7 September 2007

Real Rates and Gold 9
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Back in the young days of this gold bull, early 2001, gold languished in the $260s following a multi-decade bear. With little encouraging price behavior at that time, early contrarians focused on supply-and-demand fundamentals to undergird their highly controversial bullish views on gold. One key bullish thesis from those dark early days regarded gold’s behavior relative to real interest rates.

news.goldseek.com >> 31 August 2007

Alarming Silver Technicals
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Investors now have the opportunity to become true contrarians and deploy speculative capital into the much-feared silver-stock environment. If silver’s last two uplegs and consolidations tell the story of what is to come, then legendary gains could be just around the corner.

news.goldseek.com >> 24 August 2007

What the HUI?!?
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
After weathering a consolidation running for 16 months now, the remaining precious-metals-stock investors and speculators are a pretty hardened lot. Used to being the ridiculed black-sheep contrarians, it takes quite a bit to faze us. Yet the brutal downside action in the HUI last week certainly fit the bill.

news.goldseek.com >> 17 August 2007

Long Valuation Waves 3
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Just one month after the US stock markets achieved new all-time highs, today’s fear-stricken equity landscape looks radically different. Investors and speculators alike are frantically dumping everything with reckless abandon, regardless of fundamental merit. The resulting carnage is impressive to behold.

news.goldseek.com >> 10 August 2007

HUI and Stock Bears
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
The turbulent financial markets of the past few weeks have certainly been exciting, a welcome respite from the usual lackluster summer doldrums. But whenever volatility increases, especially after a long period of time lacking it, long-latent fears of investors and speculators flare brightly.

news.goldseek.com >> 3 August 2007

Uranium Stocks
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Uranium and uranium stocks have been best of breed among the commodities and commodities stocks of late. And the contrarian crowd that got an early jump on the stocks of the companies that are exploring for, developing and producing this mineral have enjoyed incredible gains. In the last couple years any stock that has anything to do with uranium has just soared.

news.goldseek.com >> 27 July 2007

Gold and USDX
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Over the past couple weeks the financial markets have burst free from their usual summer doldrums to provide some welcome excitement. Prices that have long seemed locked in stasis with trivial daily moves are now witnessing dramatically increased volatility. It is great to see the markets getting interesting again!

news.goldseek.com >> 20 July 2007

Energy Stock Correction
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
In a rapidly developing world starved for energy, the powerful surge in energy stocks in recent months certainly has a strong fundamental foundation. With decades left to go in the massive industrialization of Asia, global energy demand is going to continue relentlessly growing for many years to come.

news.goldseek.com >> 13 July 2007

Gold Bull Seasonals 2
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Investment and speculation are ultimately the world’s greatest probabilities games. Traders exist in a realm of constant uncertainty, where capital must be deployed today well before the unknown future arrives. To increase the odds of success for any trade, traders should only deploy when probabilities swing way into their favor.

news.goldseek.com >> 6 July 2007

Global Gold 3
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
As American investors and speculators in precious metals and their miners, it is really easy to lapse into a provincial perspective. Although the American PM markets are certainly very important, there is a massive world out there beyond our country. The entire populace of the United States represents less than 5% of the world’s people, and a similar tiny fraction of potential investors.

news.goldseek.com >> 29 June 2007

Lead Bull Market
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
There is no denying the fact that we are in a long-term secular bull market for nearly all commodities. And the transformation our global economy is undergoing is unparalleled to anything we’ve seen in modern history. An economic supercycle has emerged in which a vortex of demand is sucking in commodities with relentless fury.

news.goldseek.com >> 22 June 2007

China 2007 vs. NASDAQ 2000
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
The phenomenal performance of this year’s red-hot Chinese stock markets has led them to become the most-eagerly-watched financial markets on the planet. While even just a couple years ago few outside of China cared about its indigenous markets, today countless speculators around the globe carefully monitor stock-trading action in China.

news.goldseek.com >> 15 June 2007

HUI Irrational Pessimism
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
I don’t think any gold-stock investor or speculator can deny that sentiment is pretty darned pessimistic today. Despite high gold prices in historical context, a surprising number of gold stocks are trading near multi-year lows. And the information flow regarding gold and its miners is overwhelmingly negative. Countless theories articulating why gold stocks are certainly doomed vie for traders’ attention.

news.goldseek.com >> 8 June 2007

China Gold Technicals
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Two years ago I suspect American investors would have unanimously scoffed at the notion that the world would soon look to China’s stock markets for guidance rather than the USA’s. Yet here we are today. Over these past two years the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index has soared a breathtaking 328%, capturing the world’s attention.

news.goldseek.com >> 1 June 2007

Copper Bull Market 2
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Five years into its amazing bull market, the king of the base metals continues to hold strong through a renewed onslaught of adversity. After an exciting 2006 that saw copper shatter all-time highs, this red metal continues to trade at levels that most thought improbable several years ago.

news.goldseek.com >> 25 May 2007

Gold Futures CoT 2
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
I have loved reading my entire life, so when I am not studying the financial markets one of my favorite pastimes is reading great fiction. My favorite genre these days is the rich adventure/action stories spun out by brilliant authors like Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, and James Rollins. A good book makes even the very best movies seem like shallow grade-school plays by comparison.

news.goldseek.com >> 18 May 2007

Gold Stock Valuations 4
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
This week the International Monetary Fund, which has long commanded the world’s third largest official holding of gold bullion, once again made some noise about selling 400 tonnes of its gold. Such a sale would represent about an eighth of the IMF’s total holdings, and as usual such tidings spooked the markets.

news.goldseek.com >> 11 May 2007

US Dollar Bear 5
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
With the headline US stock indexes doing so well this year, they are understandably absorbing trader attention and news coverage like a black hole. It is always exciting to see major new round numbers achieved and new highs carved. But other markets outside of this limelight are not frozen in stasis.

news.goldseek.com >> 4 May 2007

HUI/Gold Ratio Trends
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
As we continue our fascinating journeys of discovery as students of the markets, we do a lot of charting work at Zeal. Recently a chart that I hadn’t given much thought to for the better part of 8 months caught my attention again. It was a HUI/Gold Ratio chart, also known as HGR in this essay

news.goldseek.com >> 27 April 2007

Base Metals Stockpiles and Prices 2
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Just a few years ago, the majority of stock traders were oblivious to the excitement that base metals had to offer commodities stocks. Futures traders hustled and bustled to make a buck in their familiar base metals marketplace, yet not even they were aware of the eruption of capital that would eventually take these markets by storm.

news.goldseek.com >> 22 April 2007

Bullish HUI Technicals 2
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
The flagship HUI gold-stock index has had quite a run over the last six weeks or so. It has already rallied 17% just since it swooned with general stocks in response to the late February selloff in the Chinese stock markets. But this week the HUIuiHUI returned to the technically-feared 360 level that has stymied it for nearly a year now, leaving us at a key technical crossroads.

news.goldseek.com >> 13 April 2007

Base Metals Technicals 3
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
So far this year a sense of uneasiness has gripped the financial markets. Volatility has finally peeked its head and the market players are on the edge of their seats trying to anticipate the next exciting move. While economists scrutinize every piece of data that comprises their crystal balls, the stock markets are teetering on what could be the pinnacle of their grand cyclical bull market.

news.goldseek.com >> 8 April 2007

Gold, Silver, and Stock Bears
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence
Contrarian precious-metals enthusiasts find themselves in a difficult position today psychologically. On one hand, global precious-metals fundamentals remain incredibly bullish with demand growth far outpacing supply growth. But on the other hand, what if the precious metals are sucked into the black hole of another worldwide stock-market selloff?

news.goldseek.com >> 30 March 2007

Silver Stocks
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence LLC
In the Olympics when the second-place finisher of an event steps up to the podium to receive his silver medal, it is always overshadowed by the champion of the event, the elite top finisher, the gold medalist. In the precious metals realm this analogy holds all too true for the exposure, attention and market that gold commands over silver. Though I believe gold’s dominance over silver is warranted for a variety of reasons, silver embodies many of the same fundamental characteristics as gold and indeed stands on its own two feet in its own bull market. Silver has and will greatly reward investors and speculators that heed the call of this precious metal.

news.goldseek.com >> 23 March 2007

Tactical Silver Trends 6
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Much has been said and written about all the chaos that buffeted the financial markets several weeks ago in response to the selloff in the parabolic Chinese stock markets. The mini-panic’s impact on the US stock markets and commodities in general has been analyzed from countless perspectives. Silver, perhaps speculators’ most beloved commodity, did not escape this carnage unscathed.

news.goldseek.com >> 16 March 2007

Eve of a Bear?
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
It is hard to believe that only several weeks ago the US stock markets were carving exciting new highs and complacency reigned supreme. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ were trading at their highest levels since 2000 and 2001 respectively while the Dow 30 soared well into new all-time record territory.

news.goldseek.com >> 9 March 2007

Gold-Stock Fears
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
Echoing the mini-panic in commodities in early January, the past couple of weeks have once again been trying for gold and gold-stock investors. In just five trading days ending this past Monday, gold fell 7.2% while the HUI gold-stock index plunged 13.0%. The raw fear spawned by this pullback has been pretty extraordinary.

news.goldseek.com >> 2 March 2007

HUI Upleg Daily Gains
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence
With the first two months of this new year under our belts, the commodities lethargy seemingly still has a grip on investor sentiment. The deep malaise that has entangled the commodities markets resulting from a brutal first couple weeks of January has caused many to lose sight of the fact that we are still in the midst of yet another upleg for the king of the metals.

news.goldseek.com >> 23 February 2007

Dollar-Adjusted S&P 500
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence LLC
As a markets junkie, the worst days for me are the market holidays cropping up all over the place lately. Having a big down day and losing money is no big deal, just part of the game. I like upside and downside volatility equally, the action is exciting either way. But when the financial markets are closed for some goofy “holy day”, I find myself depressed without my action fix.

news.goldseek.com >> 16 February 2007

HUI and Stock Selloffs
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence
Whenever two contrarians meet to discuss the financial markets, odds are three opinions are going to emerge about what is coming next. Yet within this cacophony of ideas there are a couple strategic trends that command nearly unanimous support among the contrarian community today, the gold bull and the stock bear.

news.goldseek.com >> 9 February 2007

Continuous Commodity CRB
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence
Commodities investors have faced major psychological trials over the past several quarters or so. Back in early May the flagship CRB commodities index hit an all-time nominal high, but then it started grinding lower into the summer. Not long after it plummeted, crashing through its key support zones like a meteor.

news.goldseek.com >> 2 February 2007

Gold Production and Reserves
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence
Nearly seven years into this mighty gold bull, it is important for investors to occasionally step back and revisit the fundamental nature of this secular uptrend. And though there are a myriad of fundamental drivers that build the case for gold, economics still reign superior.

news.goldseek.com >> 26 January 2007

CRB Dominated by Oil
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence
Until this week, many of the trading days in January have been just another turn of the screw for beleaguered commodities investors. With prices falling and psychology dismal, countless bearish theories have taken root like weeds in the fertile pessimistic soil. The ranks of even the incorrigible commodities bulls have thinned.

news.goldseek.com >> 19 January 2007

Trading HUI Volume 2
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence
After its rather ugly initial week of 2007, the HUI unhedged gold-stock index has started to recover in the past week. Not surprisingly, this has created a kind of psychological whipsawing for gold-stock traders wondering what is coming next. Did we just witness a minor pullback within an upleg or are we now seeing a bear rally within a correction?

news.goldseek.com >> 12 January 2007

Gold and HUI Carnage?
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence
This young New Year has not been kind to gold and gold stocks. In the first six trading days of 2007, general commodities selling pressure pushed gold down 3.9% which in turn drove the HUI unhedged gold-stock index 8.6% lower. Such ominous beginnings have led to a growing crescendo of pessimism chilling the hearts of investors and speculators.

news.goldseek.com >> 5 January 2007

Junior Gold Stocks 2
By: Scott Wright, Zeal Intelligence
As this gold bull market continues in its secular uptrend, gold stocks have become increasingly popular as their gains are greatly leveraging those of their underlying metal. And within this hottest-of-the-markets stock sector, a sub-sector has emerged that investors have embraced and adored.