Chart pattern analogs have long been a popular way to get an insight into future price structures.  When you see a structure in the current market that looks a lot like a structure in a previous period, then you can use the data from that previous period to look ahead to what current prices mi...

One of the more interesting relationships lately has been the strong correlation between copper prices and the SP500.  From January 2009 to date, cash copper prices and the SP500 have a +0.955 correlation coefficient.  Part of that can be explained by the fact that both of them have ...

With the rise in the USD in the last month gold and precious metal stocks have taken a beating and have become the favored short by the CNBC “Fast Money” and hedge fund community. While precious metals may be the favored short by the momentum crowd, it’s quite likely a short-term low is in, ...

The Fed is printing money, and so gold prices are rising.  It’s a simple matter of dollars per ounce, is it not?  If more dollars are printed, but the amount of gold on the planet stays the same, then the price in dollars per ounce should increase, right? It turns out that this relation...

Article By Doug Casey of Casey Research No Way Out I really dislike sounding inflammatory. Saying that things are going to go terribly wrong runs a risk of being classed with those who think the world will end in December 2012 because of something Nostradamus or the Bible says, or because th...

From www.zerohedge.com By Chris Martenson Prediction: Things Will Unravel Faster Than You Think By my analysis, we are not yet on the final path to recovery, and there are one or more financial ‘breaks’ coming in the future.  Underlying structural weaknesses have not been resolved, an...

From Business Insider Marc Faber, Publisher, Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, spoke to ET Now on a range of issues including the current market scenario, emerging markets, Fed’s policies and US bond markets, among others. Excerpts: You are known as Mr Contrarian in India. You always like to advise t...

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This article is from CXO Advisory, to view the article on their website please click here This article makes for very interesting reading. Enjoy!. Gurus Can experts, whether self-proclaimed or endorsed by others (publications), provide reliable stock market timing guidance? Do some experts clearl...

By Brian Petti – www.contraryinvestor.com It has been a very long while since I’ve taken up a big chunk of a discussion to write about crude oil. The time is now for a multiplicity of reasons. You know the old market truism that after bear markets in equities, old leadership rarely eme...

Bullishness among gold timers very high – Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch. ...

Our subscribers will know that we have long considered oil at a critical tipping point, while many others think that there is an imminent oil shortage and prices will continue to rise. We believe that the next oil crisis will be caused by a glut in oil, infact we’ll probably all be swimmin...

See what we have to say about the Australia/US Dollar relationship in our special report from the 8th of September 2009!.  In our report we have identified an important Elliott Wave pattern with a very high reliability that combined with the current Elliott Wave count we believe offers a very goo...