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Galway Gold Receives Favorable Ruling in Vetas Arbitration
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:30:00 -0800
Galway Gold Inc. is pleased to announce that it received a favorable ruling in the arbitration over the Vetas gold-silver project. Galway was awarded damages of COP$79,341,923 per month from December 18, ...
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Gold Price Marks Time at Fibonacci Level
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:16:00 -0800
Gold Price Marks Time at Fibonacci Level
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Simeon Tshakapesh says no plans to curtail limited hunt on caribou
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:32:18 -0800
The deputy chief of the Innu Nation, Simeon Tshakapesh, says there are no plans to curtail a limited hunt for caribou in Labrador, despite a hunting ban and worries that the Red Wine Mountain caribou herd is dramatically depleted. Tshakapesh also disputed assertions by government officials that hunting is a primary factor for the troubling state of the Red Wine herd and caribou numbers in ...
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Uncork fun in the sun at the 29th Annual Sandestin Wine Festival
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:12:00 -0800
MIRAMAR BEACH, FL, March 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - The 29th Annual Sandestin Wine Festival takes place April 16-19 and today event organizers announced the four-day lineup of events, tastings, entertainment and more. The Sandestin Wine Festival at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort has become a tradition over the years and widely renowned as the "Kentucky Derby of Wine Festivals." The thoroughbreds ...
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A strong dollar is putting pressure on gold prices
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:36:58 -0800
On March 4, 2015, the April gold futures settled near the day?s low?down by 0.29%. Gold prices are in a deep downward trend from the highs of August 2011.
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ETFS Gold Trust, ETFS Precious Metals Basket Trust & ETFS Asian Gold Trust to Use the LBMA PM Gold Price as Their ...
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 05:30:00 -0800
London Gold Market Fixing Ltd. has announced its intention to discontinue the ?London Fix? pricing benchmark for Gold after March 19, 2015. The London Fix has been the ?Benchmark Price? for valuation of gold bullion held by each of the ETFS Gold Trust , the ETFS Precious Metals Basket Trust , and the ETFS Asian Gold Trust .
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Endeavour Silver Reports 2014 Financial Results; Conference Call at 1pm PST (4pm EST) Today, March 5, 2015
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 04:30:00 -0800
Endeavour Silver Corp. announces its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2014, based on the Company's 10th consecutive year of growing silver production. Endeavour owns and operates ...
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Pocket vino: We review 5 apps for managing your wine cellar
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:09:41 -0800
We?ve come a long way since the era of the cellar book, when wine bottles had to be logged by hand in paperbound tomes and tracked by little tags hanging from their necks. The wine world is actively embracing technology, and home enthusiasts can get in on the action as well, using mobile apps to help keep their stash tabulated and organized. Numerous wine cellar management apps are now available ...
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Corks Wine Bar
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:58:22 -0800
Hours: 6 p.m.-midnight Mon, 4 p.m.-midnight Tue-Wed, 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Thu, 4 p.m.-2 a.m. Fri-Sat. Closed Sun, but can be used for private events Happy Hour: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wed-Fri
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Great Panther Silver reports fiscal year 2014 financial results
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:38:00 -0800
Great Panther Silver reports fiscal year 2014 financial results
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Will gold prices maintain their key support of $1,200 per ounce?
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 10:06:05 -0800
Gold prices for April futures contracts show the formation of a trading range. Prices are oscillating in a narrow range of $1,200 to $1,220 per ounce.
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Spain's Wine Exports Soar 22 Percent ? But Profits Fall
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 09:58:57 -0800
Spain's wine industry had a record year in 2014, posting numbers that could propel it past Italy as the world's biggest wine exporter. But most of the wine was sold cheaply, in bulk.
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Silver Airways maintenance headquarters to open in Orlando soon
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:43:09 -0800
Silver Airways is bringing 200 new jobs to Central Florida when its new maintenance headquarters opens later this month.
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Gold prices fall on the rising US dollar
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 05:55:25 -0800
Gold prices are trading almost 37% lower than they were in August 2011. The drop in gold prices was due to the strong US dollar.
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KATHY SMITH: New law allows you to expand your wine journey
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:00:00 -0800
So many choices, so little time! California alone has over 3,000 wineries. The United States, more than 8,000. That?s domestic wine only; now imagine how many wineries there are in Europe?
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Fresnillo shares tank as 2014 profits plunge 40%
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:05:00 -0800
Mexican precious metals producer Fresnillo said it delivered a "reasonable performance" in 2014 in the face of lower silver and gold prices as profits plunged, sending the shares firmly into ...
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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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