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EDITORIALS
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A Short History of Speculative Excesses and Wealth Preservation Addison Wiggin
2015-01-30 23:17:51.0
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The Ugly Truth About Arthritis and Diabetes Stephen Petranek
2015-01-30 20:01:47.0
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Top 10 Bushcraft & Survival Skills To Practice This Winter martenson
2015-01-30 18:26:47.0
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Bread and Circuses David Morgan
2015-01-30 17:53:56.0
Bread and Circuses(Not All Inflation Is about Footballs)by Guy ChristopherI know it's easy to brush off those constantly mounting reports and stories of decay, destruction, and despair.
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Yukon Gold zealllc
2015-01-30 16:57:13.0
It was in 1896 when prospectors stumbled across large quantities of gold in one of the tributaries of the Yukon?s Klondike River.
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Daily Digest 1/30 - Economy Slowed in 4th Quarter, The Activity Gap martenson
2015-01-30 15:54:49.0
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When The Third Bubble Pops, The Day of Reckoning Will Come David Stockman
2015-01-30 15:48:32.0
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Greeks Turn to Gold on Bank Bail-in and Drachma Risks Mark O'Byrne
2015-01-30 15:04:18.0
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Why 1976 Is Relevant On The S&P 500 Index ciovaccocapital.com
2015-01-30 15:04:17.0
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The Market's An Emotional Wreck ?Now What? Greg Guenthner
2015-01-30 14:51:40.0
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Marc Faber Warns -- QE has Grossly Inflated U.S. Equity Prices MarcFaberBlog
2015-01-30 12:57:02.0
Quantitative easing by major central banks has pushed up asset prices, but it has not contributed to the advance of the real economy, Faber, who is well known for his opposition to money-printing and.
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Impending US$ Peak Should be Catalyst for Gold Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT
2015-01-30 06:35:20.0
Gold has performed very well under the circumstances of declining inflation and a surging US$ index.
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Alexis Tsipras Open Letter To Germany: What You Were Never Told About Greece Jason Hamlin
2015-01-30 05:57:16.0
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Alexis Tsipras' Open Letter To Germany: What You Were Never Told About Greece Jason Hamlin
2015-01-30 05:38:25.0
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Platinum producer Lonmin keeps output target, cuts spending Silvia Antonioli
2015-01-30 05:20:43.0
South Africa's
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Gold Is a Golden Investment Again Jason Jenkins
2015-01-30 05:08:12.0
When there is rampant talk about economies around the world experiencing downturns and central banks manipulating their currencies, investors think about safe havens to place their money.
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Will gold ever top $1,300 again? Leslie Shaffer
2015-01-30 04:36:14.0
In the wake of a sharp drop Thursday, gold may struggle to see heights over $1,300 an ounce again as the tailwinds from central banks on an easing bent stalled when faced with the
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The Four Essentials For Successful Composting martenson
2015-01-30 01:02:02.0
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How to Operate a HAM Radio martenson
2015-01-30 00:04:56.0
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Gold: COT Report Flashes Yellow Flag Taki T
2015-01-29 21:46:20.0
Gold was unable to rally above $1,300 per ounce.
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LATEST NEWS
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Banks Island Gold Ltd. Releases Third Quarter Report
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:39:40 -0800
Banks Island Gold Ltd. reports that the third quarter, 2015 Management's Discussion and Analysis and Financial Statements have been released and are available on www.sedar.com and the Company's website....
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B.C. government tweaks proposed pricing strategy so wine prices don?t go up April 1
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:22:45 -0800
Critics had claimed a new wholesale price model announced last fall would have increased the retail price of a $20 bottle of wine to $22 while a $40 bottle would have risen to as much as $56, and a $100 bottle would have cost anywhere from $126 to $151.
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Chinese now own 100 Bordeaux chateaux, as wine mania grows
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:31:06 -0800
China, the main export market for Bordeaux wines, has been steadily acquiring vineyards, to the dismay of many in France's most hallowed wine-making region
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How to get the best quality wine at any price point
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:20:00 -0800
When you walk into a wine store, bottles priced...
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Gold Canyon Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:39:00 -0800
Gold Canyon Resources Inc. announces that it intends to complete a non-brokered private placement of up to 11,835,000 units at a price of $0.11 per Unit...
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Vista Gold Corp. Amends the Payment Terms for the Los Cardones Project and Will Receive a US$3.0 Million Cash Payment
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 04:30:00 -0800
Vista Gold Corp. Amends the Payment Terms for the Los Cardones Project and Will Receive a US$3.0 Million Cash Payment
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Asian Metals Market Update
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:01:39 -0800
Even if gold closes over $1230 today, I will consider it a positive sign. However for a big bull run gold needs a daily close over $1263 today as well as next Friday. Gold and silver demand could be postponed if they fall today also.
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Overbought? The gold rally fuels the GDX and GDXJ ETFs
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:06:09 -0800
The GLD ETF or gold price movements directly affect the margins of the GDX and GDXJ ETFs.
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Saville says gold's flow doesn't matter; U.S. and China disagree
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:23:03 -0800
That's not how the U.S. government sees it. To the contrary, the U.S. government considers gold's location to be of supreme importance to the country's standing.
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The GDX and GDXJ ETFs gain on large fund flows
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:06:03 -0800
The GLD ETF or gold price movement directly affects the profitability of the GDX and GDXJ ETFs.
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Gold & Silver Market Morning
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 06:16:19 -0800
Gold Today ? New York closed at $1,284.90 down $9.20. In Asia gold slipped to $1,280. The Fix saw the gold price set at $1,275.50 down $11.50 and in the euro, at ?1,129.361 down ?2.565, while the euro was ¾ of a cent stronger at $1.1294 up over 1 ½ cents.
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Have gold prices still got one last low to reach and are gold shares a good hedge against getting that wrong?
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 06:15:57 -0800
Elliott Wave theorists, and there a lot of technical chartists that follow their work too, argue that gold still needs to put in one last low price before it can be said to have completed the classic wave formation and then power upwards in a big price spike. If so how could this happen?
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Endeavour Silver Updates Reserve and Resource Estimates, Provides Production and Cost Guidance for 2015; Conference ...
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:30:00 -0800
Endeavour Silver Corp. reports updated NI 43-101 silver and gold reserve and resource estimates for its three producing mines in Mexico: the Guanaceví Mine in Durango State and the Bolañitos and El Cubo ...
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Silver Resinate (CAS 68551-40-6) Market Research Report
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:30:00 -0800
DUBLIN, Jan. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/394x8w/silver_resinate ) has announced the addition of the "Silver Resinate (CAS 68551-40-6) ...
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Pilot Gold Announces Revised Preliminary Economic Assessment for Halilaga Copper-Gold Porphyry Project
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:30:00 -0800
Pilot Gold is pleased to announce the completion of a new Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Halilaga copper-gold porphyry project in northwestern Turkey . The revised PEA illustrates a robust, low ...
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Klondex Increases Mineral Resource Estimate at Fire Creek
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:00:00 -0800
Klondex Mines Ltd. reports an update to the mineral resource estimate at its 100%-owned Fire Creek Project in Nevada. The technical report, with an effective date of December 31, 2014, is to be...
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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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