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EDITORIALS
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Stocks: Correction Odds ciovaccocapital.com
2014-08-01 19:21:38.0
After you click play, use the button in the lower-right corner of the video player to view in full-screen mode.
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Daily Digest 8/1 - Ebola Toll Rises In Africa, Gold Prices In 3 Waves martenson
2014-08-01 18:42:00.0
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Off the Cuff: A European Perspective On The Conflict With Russia martenson
2014-08-01 18:42:00.0
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How to Make Bread in a Crock-Pot martenson
2014-08-01 18:41:59.0
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How to Shield Yourself from the Next US Debt Crisis Matt Insley
2014-08-01 16:09:10.0
Let's head back in time…In 2004, a mere decade ago, the US national debt rang the register at $7.
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CHART OF THE DAY goldscents
2014-08-01 16:08:04.0
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Jim's Mailbox Jim Sinclair
2014-08-01 14:27:49.0
Jim, Another bad day for the Cabal.
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Jim's Mailbox Jim Sinclair
2014-08-01 14:21:09.0
Jim, Another bad day for the Cabal.
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In The News Today Jim Sinclair
2014-08-01 14:14:28.0
Jim Sinclair's Commentary Mr.
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Great News! You Can Still Cash in on the 3-D Printing Boom Josh Grasmick
2014-08-01 14:09:04.0
'I got to see someone get a new, 3-D printed hand today,' said my fianc?? last night over a home-cooked Italian dinner.
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Stock Corrections: How Bad Can They Be And What Can We Do? ciovaccocapital.com
2014-08-01 14:09:04.0
2013-2014: Not A Good BenchmarkIt has not been difficult to find "as long as the Fed is in charge, we will never have another serious correction" comments in recent weeks.
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Bitcoin Trading Alert: Significant Day in the Bitcoin Market SunshineProfits
2014-08-01 13:55:59.0
Bitcoin Trading Alert originally sent to subscribers on August 1, 2014, 1:26 PM.
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Argentina Should Turn Their Debt Default Into A Positive ? Here's How Lorimer Wilson
2014-08-01 13:08:10.0
An Argentine friend queried me about Argentina's debt default yesterday asking me
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Stock Market Bubble to ?POP? and Cause Global Depression Lorimer Wilson
2014-08-01 13:01:14.0
In their infinite wisdom the Fed thinks they have rescued the economy by inflating
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Will Higher Interest Rates Result From Additional Tapering? Lorimer Wilson
2014-08-01 12:34:52.0
After a long period of very low interest rates following the global financial crisis the
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Will You Be Our 10,000th Twitter Follower? martenson
2014-08-01 12:22:42.0
We're just a few people away from our 10,000 follower milestone on Twitter.
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Beer Facts: Comparative Prices & Consumption Levels Around the World Lorimer Wilson
2014-08-01 12:21:33.0
Beer can be dirt cheap - or terribly expensive - depending on the country.
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Will Crisis In Middle East Cause Oil Price to Skyrocket? Lorimer Wilson
2014-08-01 12:21:33.0
Unrest in the Middle East (and elsewhere throughout the world) has an economic impact and, specifically, on crude oil prices.
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Zeal Intelligence August 2014 zealllc
2014-08-01 12:21:11.0
Monthly subscription newsletter.
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Numb to Risk, Oblivious to Gold Adrian Ash
2014-08-01 12:15:51.0
Gold investing isn't needed now money managers are cocooned from risk by zero-rate dope.
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LATEST NEWS
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Gold Mining ETFs Slip Following Mixed Earnings Results
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:18:46 -0700
With earnings from Barrick, Newmont, and Goldcorp, the major gold ETFs look to be in focus.
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Wine reviews from Chris Shanahan
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 07:36:03 -0700
Wines to savour.
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Pick The Second Cheapest Wine At A Restaurant For The Best Value
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 07:21:03 -0700
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Gold & Silver Market Morning
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 05:37:23 -0700
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Gold Review: Mwana Africa plc Up 89% In July!
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:36:26 -0700
The turnaround continues at Mwana Africa plc (LON:MWA), and the gold miner's share price rose by 89% in July.
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SILVER BASE (00886) has dropped 5.051%. The last price is HK$0.94
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:34:47 -0700
[Dropping Stock] SILVER BASE (00886)'s price dropped 5.051% at 11:26a.m . Its last price is HK$0.94. Today's highest price is $0.99 and lowest price is $0.94. Total volume is 4.232M shares and total turnover is HK$4.065M.
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CHI SILVER GP (00815) has risen 8.73%. The last price is HK$1.37
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:51:38 -0700
[Rising Stock] CHI SILVER GP (00815)'s price went up 8.73% at 10:57a.m . Its last price is HK$1.37. Today's highest price is $1.37 and lowest price is $1.27. Total volume is 6.474M shares and total turnover is HK$8.569M.
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CHI SILVER GP (00815) has noticeably risen 11.905%. The last price is HK$1.41
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:51:19 -0700
[Rising Stock] CHI SILVER GP (00815)'s price noticeably went up 11.905% at 10:59a.m . Its last price is HK$1.41. Today's highest price is $1.41 and lowest price is $1.27. Total volume is 8.09M shares and total turnover is HK$10.797M.
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Glass half full for industry
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:53:15 -0700
Four-long serving members of the Wine Marlborough board have decided not to stand for re-election. Wine reporter Chloe Winter spoke to them about why they are standing down, what some of the challenges have been and what's next for Marlborough's wine industry.
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Eldorado Gold Corporation: 2014 Second Quarter Financial and Operating Results
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:41:03 -0700
Eldorado Gold Corporation today reported the Company's financial and operational results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Net profit attributable to shareholders of the Company for the quarter ...
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Kinross Gold (KGC) Misses on Earnings, Beats on Revenues
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 05:20:02 -0700
Kinross Gold's (KGC) second-quarter earnings missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny.
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Skip Napa Valley. Visit Yakima Valley Instead
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 05:03:35 -0700
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Marine from Camp Pendleton posthumously awarded Silver Star
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:57:48 -0700
A Marine from Camp Pendleton who was killed in Afghanistan has been posthumously awarded the Silver Star for bravery.
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Marathon Gold Announces $3.0 Million Bought Deal, Unit and Flow-Through Private Placement
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:36:00 -0700
TORONTO, July 31, 2014 /CNW/ - Marathon Gold Corporation ("Marathon" or the "Company") (MOZ:TSX) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Canaccord Genuity Corp. ("Canaccord"), pursuant to which a syndicate of underwriters led by Canaccord (the "Underwriters") will purchase, in any combination, flow-through common shares of the Company ("Flow-Through Shares") at a price ...
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Sibanye Gold???s Profit Drops 36% After Bullion Price Decrease
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:15:26 -0700
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I am still in wait-and-watch mode on India: Jim Rogers
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:57:57 -0700
Jim Rogers says India needs to do a lot to put its house in order.
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LATEST FROM BLOG
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How to use the Commitment of Traders Report?
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:08:00 GMT
The Commitment of Traders report (COT report) is a weekly report, which is issued on every Friday by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This report contains the details of the positions of all the market participants. Every report that comes on Friday contains the data as of the preceding Tuesday.
The role of CFTC is to Commodities Future & Options market what SEC is to equity markets. The COT is a very handy, reliable and important report as it has good deal of data related to the market positions and trends of various trader groups. It is very useful in understanding the current and future market movements.
The structure of the COT report is detailed and it provides data segregated into different trader groups. The three main categories being: commercial traders, non-commercial traders and non-reportables.
Commercial Traders: They are the main players of the Commodity future markets. They are essentially hedgers and their trades are for actual delivery of the underlying asset. They have the largest positions in the markets and are big entities like Producers and users/consumers. They have the best knowledge of demand, supply & market movements etc. and enter into contracts as per their requirements and forecasts.
Non-commercial traders: They are also generally big traders but unlike the commercial traders, their positions are mostly for speculative profits. They enter a position with a view to make money and exit the position long before the due dates.
Non-reportables: This is the smallest group of traders and consists of individuals or other small entities that trade on speculative lines. Their holdings are individually too small to be required to report to CFTC and hence the name.
Over the years, CFTC has been providing the report with the aforesaid three categories of traders. But in the recent years, it has started providing disaggregated reports, further categorizing the traders. The picture below illustrates the disaggregated trader categories.
In the above classification, Swap dealers represent the Pension funds, endowments etc. These funds rather than directly trading in the future markets, work through the services of Swap dealers.
Basics of COT report
The COT report is a very valuable source of information, which can be used to get an idea of the future market movements and accordingly device a trading strategy. Let's take a sample COT report of Gold Futures dated 11th June and try to understand the basic data sets and their implications.
A gold future contract is of 100 Troy ounces and the above report is a part of the COT report on metals issued by CFTC on 14th of June, 2013. The report shows the category wise positions as on June 11th. In each category, the long and short positions represent the number of contracts held. The total open interest shows the sum of all contracts (both long & short), that have neither expired nor settled. From the above data, we can get the following perspectives about the current market conditions.
The total open interest is 373,844, which is marginally up by 783 from the previous week. This indicates a bit higher market participation. The benefit of an increased open interest is that a higher number of transactions take place increasing the liquidity. At the same time it also indicates better market conditions for trading and may be a sign of trend reversal.
The net position of Producers/Merchants category is still on the bearish side but compared to last week it shows increase of 3,251 in long contracts. Remember that this group has the best knowledge of the markets and they are bearish with slight movements towards bullish side of the fence. This movement towards long position may be short term or long term. Now if we look at the data of past few weeks, we will observe that there is a gradual increase in the long position of this group. The total extent of their short positions has been decreasing over the time. This may indicate a positive outlook for gold in the future.
The swap dealers reflect the same approach as far as the net position is considered.
Managed Money traders have a contrarian position. This may be due to the longer time frame that they generally target, eliminating the reflection of short-term market sentiments in their position.
Other reportable and the non-reportables are generally market followers. They are mostly in a position opposite to that of commercials. One thing that you should always avoid is to follow the trend of non-reportables.
The current COT report can further be compared to the past data and more inferences can be deduced. For example, if you compare the open interest with past data, you would see that it has been falling and has dropped quite low. Also this drop has somewhat stabilized over the past few weeks and it seems to be bottoming up. This indicates that a strong level of support for the gold prices may have been achieved and there are pretty good chances of a trend reversal.
Some takeaways
Now since you have some understanding of how to use COT report, you must keep the following points in mind while using it.
COT report comes with a time delay of 3 days. This is a dampening factor to the uses of the report in framing intraday and very short-term trade strategies.
The data content is excellent and reliable. This makes it a great source of getting market insights.
Further derivations of the COT report in the form index creation or indicators etc can further add to its utility.
Use other tools in combination with COT insights to validate your analysis.
COT report as such is of great value. No wonders why CFTC has to give in to the demands of weekly reports from the market participants, rather than the bi-monthly report that it used to provide in the past. That's all as of now. Happy trading!!!
From quantshare.com
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Gold and Silver Speculator Long Positions Wiped Out
Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:17:00 GMT
Small speculators, also known as individual investors, have had their net long positions in gold and silver completely wiped out over the last two weeks. As of last Tuesday, these small investors held a mere 133 net long gold contracts, and 2163 net long silver contracts. As recently as September, when we turned cautious on the metals, small speculators held over 60,000 net long gold contracts and 20,000 silver contracts. If the small speculators were to sell anymore gold and silver, they would become net short.
Typically commercial banks manipulate prices on low volume to set the price and then trade at the newly set price in volume. The recent crash in gold and silver began after hours on a Friday, and was hit further by large sell orders Sunday night to take out the well known technical support lines of both metals. Most small retails investors were probably not even contacted by their futures broker. By the time they checked their account the next Monday Morning, either their protective stop orders were triggered or the margin clerk forcefully closed their position. The snowball effect in margin calls and stop loss orders was great enough to last several days.
None of this is surprising. However, we were quite surprised to see that net short positions of commercial traders rose substantially during this period. Typically they would be expected to cover their short positions at lower prices, mopping up the losses of retail investors.
This reveals several important changes to the gold and silver markets:
1) It took an enormous number of short positions added to move the market even on a weekend.
2) The gambit failed, as they were not able to cover these positions in volume after the dump. Nevertheless, as we have been expecting for several years, the commercial traders will be net long before the metals make new highs. But if they can't cover at lower prices, they will begin covering at higher prices as we saw when silver rose from $20 fall 2010 to $50 in spring 2011.
We suspect that the failure of the gold gambit is largely due to the unexpected surge in GLOBAL demand for physical metal. Premiums on bullion products are higher than they were during the 2008 crash, with even junk silver selling at $5-$6 over the paper spot price. This is unprecedented.
The consolidation in gold and silver over the last two years has been painful, especially for mining investors. However, with the prices of the metals at or below production costs, along with shortages of retail bullion products, and zero net long small investors, we are struggling to identify any more sellers. The summer season is typically weak for precious metals, and they could easily back and fill a base over the next six months, however the risk in accumulating physical metals in this price range is very low. We also believe that producing miners with cash holdings represent substantial value at this time.
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Caution Advised in Gold and Silver
Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:35:00 GMT
Gold and especially silver have succumbed to a long a demoralizing correction over the last 12 to 18 months. The summer doldrums likely marked the bottom of this correction, and the metals have turn the corner higher. However, both gold and silver investors will likely have their resolve tested once again in the coming weeks before the metals are able to break higher.
Precious metals (GLD, SLV), and mining equities surged from their 2008 lows to their 2011 highs in reaction to massive monetary intervention, and an initial surge in inflationary expectations. Although interest rates have remained near zero, and real interest rates are clearly negative, precious metals investors have been disappointed by the ongoing global stagflationary wealth destruction, and the failure of further intervention by policy makers. The Federal Reserve has admitted that the US economy is weaker than desired, yet it has also continually disappointed in announcing a new quantitative easing as it seeks political justification.
The last two years of global policy makers kicking the can down the road, in conjunction with weaker demand from India, has created the environment for a severe correction in gold, silver, and miners. While it hasn't been the most severe in terms of percentage loss, it has likely been the most severe in terms of sentiment. With Europe, India, China, and the US all decelerating at a rapid pace, and the US fiscal cliff returning the political forefront, we believe that we are months away at the most from a turn in monetary policy. Verbal intervention has run its course, and real monetary intervention is a mathematical certainty.
Gold miners(GDX) bottomed in May, and are leading the metals. They are now overbought and could face a sharp correction before breaking out.
Gold and silver may already have begun pricing in future intervention, however commercial banks are not yet on board with the breakout in gold and silver. Net commercial short positions in both gold and silver, at a time when prices are near resistance levels and overbought are indicating that a short and severe correction could be imminent.
Silver has had an especially large spike in commercial short positions over the last three weeks.
The current commercial short positions in silver and gold must be reduced before the metals can break higher. In other words, commercial banks must cover the majority of their short positions. While they could cover as prices rise, history suggests that the most likely scenario is for the commercial banks to take down the price and cover at lower levels. This correction will likely coincide with the realization of a global recession/depression in 2013 and end with the realization of further monetary intervention.
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