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 | Bron Suchecki - Perth Mint |
| Understanding Open Interest |
| Techniques for analysing and trading equities, looking at price and volume, can be applied to precious metal futures markets. Futures, however, introduce another data point – open interest – that has to be considered. With equities, the quantity of shares on issue is generally fixed and rarely changes. Therefore all buying is done from sellers who hold the shares.
With futures, the amount of contracts “on issue” or “open” changes daily, as a future is a contract to trade metal in the future andThursday, August 13, 2020 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| Gold is a Giant Ouija Board |
| We have been promising to get back to the topic of capital destruction, which we put on hiatus for the last several weeks to make our case that the interest rate remains in a falling trend. Today, we have a different way of looking at capital destruction.
Socialism is the system of seeking out and destroying capital. Redistribution means taking someone’s capital and handing it over as income to someone else. The rightful owner would steward and compound it, not consume it. But the recipient of uMonday, February 26, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| If Gold and Silver Are Manipulated, Why Bother Investing |
| Over the past six years precious metals investors have seen a barrage of negative news regarding the dollar. Yet despite the almost endless money printing and fundamental reasons why gold and silver should respond with higher prices, the precious metals remain well below their 2011 highs.
As has been written on MilesFranklin.com, as well as by experts like Ted Butler and GATA, there is ample evidence suggesting that the markets are being manipulated lower by the bullion banks. Essentially on a sThursday, January 25, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Dave Kranzler: 2018 should be bullish for the precious metals sector |
| Usually I'm loathe to stick out price targets on the markets, especially gold and silver, because of the undeniable market intervention of the central banks -- market manipulation that is so blatant now that it is denied only by card-carrying idiots.
Gold and silver had a sharp run-up in the last two weeks of 2017. But the abrupt move in gold was accompanied by a rapid rise in the gold futures open interest on the Comex. The "commercial" net short position in Comex gold futures -- that is, the pSaturday, January 20, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Bill Murphy: Rocketing bitcoin highlights gold and silver suppression |
| The gold price was traumatized yesterday by the Gold Cartel's forceful raid, plunging right through important support at $1,270 all the way down to $1,260.
While a technical breakdown was created, enough buyers showed up to take the price back up to a touch away from $1,270 through the early London trading hours. Efforts to break through that former support point were thwarted twice. Then it was pressure on a couple hours ahead of our Comex opening ... which took the price back down to $1,263.
Sunday, December 10, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Banks Again Defending Silver's 200-Day Moving Average - Craig Hemke |
| The Bullion Bank trading desks, which are routinely short
thousands of metric tonnes of digital silver, are once again attempting to keep
price below the 200-day moving average.
And why is this so important to The Banks? For the most basic
reasons of all...greed and profit.
The only data available to measure the size of the Bank net short
position in Comex silver comes from the corrupt and compromised CFTC. Though it
seems useless to use CFTC-generated data, unfortunately we have no other
choiceThursday, November 30, 2017 |
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 | Dave Kranzler - Sprott Money |
| Gold And Silver: Something Different Is Occurring - Dave Kranzler |
| JP Morgan, at least according to the daily Comex warehouse report,
added over half a million ozs of silver to its “historic” stash of
silver at the Comex:
TF Metals Report.
It would be even more interesting to see an actual independent
accounting of that specific metal which would track the serial numbers
on the bars to the legal owner of title.
I’ve been hedged in my mining stock portfolio since early September.
The signal for me to hedge is the reliable Comex bank “net short”
posiSaturday, November 11, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Bullion Banks Once Again Target Gold's 200-Day Moving Average - |
| In the hope of inspiring Comex speculator liquidation, The Banks
are once again targeting gold's 200-day moving average.
Twice previously this year, The Banks have managed to maneuver
the gold price down and through the 200-day moving average. On these prior
occasions, the speculator selling that followed allowed The Banks to buy back
and cover large amounts of their perennial short contracts.
On Friday, April 28 of this year, total Comex gold open interest
was at 470,787 contracts and price wasThursday, October 26, 2017 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
| Newton's Third Law |
| In late August, we decided to anchor our boat out in a place called Indian Harbour, a wonderful "safe haven" for boaters that love northern Georgian Bay, in an effort to make the most of what has been an absolutely dreadful summer for most people in the east-central part of Canada and the U.S. This little harbour is protected by a small sliver of rock and trees that separates it from the ravages of the prevailing westerlies which whip across the prairies gathering momentum until they descent upoFriday, September 29, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| More Commitment of Traders Perspective - Craig Hemke |
| We all saw a lot of commentary and "analysis"
over the weekend regarding the latest Commitment of Traders report.
Again, these numbers are most important when considered through the lens
of historical perspective and that's what we attempt to show you today.
It's going to be a long and busy week. From
Fedlines to Durable Goods to GDP...there's a lot going on. And Lord
knows what lies ahead politically and geo-politically! Here's just a
brief summary:
The metals have begun the week just slTuesday, July 25, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Worst Performing Asset Class Since Trump’s Election-Really |
| Following Friday’s retail sales catastrophe, interest rates plunged, and the market-based odds of further Fed rate hikes declined to just 8% in September and 48% in December. Led, of course, by begrudging Wall Street cheerleaders like Goldman Sachs’ ALWAYS wrong Chief Economist, “Hapless Hatzius.” Who, like his partners-in-crime at the Fed; and likely, its soon-to-be-new Chairman Gary Cohn – who before he was appointed Trump’s top economic advisor, was Goldman’s Chief Operating Officer; dramatMonday, July 17, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Speculators Sour On Gold Silver, Which Means The Bottom Is Near - John Rubino |
| The stars — in the form of smart and dumb money futures contract
positions — have once again lined up favorably for precious metals. Here
are those positions for gold and silver as of Tuesday the 4th. Notice
that speculators (the dumb money) got a lot less optimistic — that is,
less long and more short — while the commercials (the smart money) got
much less pessimistic. The closer each group gets to neutral, where
their longs and shorts are about equal, the greater the likelihood that
metSaturday, July 15, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Silver Fundamentals Vs. The Base Metal Bubble Part ll-Silver Undervalued Against Everything Now! |
| Yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump Jr. was allegedly involved in secret meetings with a Russian lawyer last year, in an alleged attempt to obtain anti-Hillary information. This, as Trump’s snot-nosed, silver spoon son-in-law, Jared Kushner – a mere 36 years old – was collaborating with Qatarian sheiks whilst Saudi Arabia “coincidentally” declared economic war on it – under the ultimate “pot calling the kettle black” insinuation that Qatar funds terrorism. To which, I can only say, how ridWednesday, July 12, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
 The Ultimate Precious Metal Portfolio High-Grading Opportunity |
| I have many important things to say in today’s very important, and pragmatic, article; and thus, am starting it early Sunday morning. After which, I’ll take a break, and resume Monday morning – so you won’t miss a moment of real-time commentary, in an ever-changing, and increasingly “PiMBEEB,” world.
To start, my increasingly strong belief that Precious Metals are set up for a sharp rebound in the not-too-distant future. Not that I know why the Cartel has been so vicious in recent weeks – starTuesday, July 11, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Forget GDXJ: Follow The Real Money Into Gold, Silver And Juniors - Dave Kranzler |
| Silver Doctors / The News Doctors
invited me onto their weekly SD Bullion Metals and Markets show to
discuss why both the technicals and fundamentals are setting up for an
unexpected rally into the summer in gold, silver and the mining shares,
specifically the juniors.
Subsequent to our recording, the weekly Commitment of Traders report
released Friday showed that the bullion banks continue to cover their
net short positions in both gold and silver rather aggressively and the
hedge funds Thursday, May 25, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Some Perspective On The Latest Commitment Of Traders Report - Craig Hemke |
| Last Friday's CoT for the Comex Metals was
rather interesting from a historical perspective. Because of this...and
because we know that not everyone listened to Friday's podcast...it
seemed appropriate to type up this written summary today.
Before we begin, it is VERY important to note
the restrictions that have been deliberately placed on this info by the
CFTC. Even though the Commitment of Traders reports are surveyed at the
Comex close each Tuesday, the CFTC purposefully waits 74 hours Tuesday, May 23, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| TF Metals Report: Gold and silver futures shorts seem washed out |
| According to the TF Metals Report, the latest "wash-rinse-repeat" cycle in Comex gold and silver futures contracts, in which the big investment banks with access to infinite money from central banks fleece speculators and hedge funds, seems just about completed. That makes the next move likely to be up, the TF Metals Report says. Its analysis is headlined "Some Perspective on the Latest Commitment of Traders Report" and it's posted here:
https://www.tfmetalsreport.com/blog/8348/some-perspective-Monday, May 22, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
 Is Gold Signaling The Next Financial Crisis - Rory Hall/Dave Kranzler |
| Gold and silver have been sold down pretty hard since April 18th. But
the structure of the weekly Commitment of Traders report, which shows
the long and short positions of the various trader classifications
(banks, hedgers, hedge funds, other large investment funds, retail) had
been flashing a short
term sell signal for the last few weeks. The net short position of the
Comex banks and the net long position of the hedge funds had reached
relatively high levels. Except Thursday (May 4th), aWednesday, May 10, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Managed Money Traders M.I.A. in Silver in Friday’s COT Report - Ed Steer |
| YESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM
The
gold price traded quietly lower in Far East trading on their Friday —
and back below $1,200 spot, with the low tick of the day printed about
ten minutes before the London open. It crept higher from there until
at, or just after, the noon GMT silver fix. It was sold a bit lower
from there — and about ten minutes before the COMEX open, it began to
rally with some real authority, but ran into the usual long selleTuesday, March 14, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Prices 'Muted' with Comex Bulls Ahead of US Fed Speeches on Rates |
| GOLD PRICES held steady in quiet trade Monday lunchtime in London, with Wall Street on holiday for President's Day and investors waiting for speeches this week from five Fed officials on the possible timing of US interest rate hikes,
writes Steffen Grosshauser at BullionVault.
Gold oscillated in a narrow $8 range around last Friday's close of $1234 per ounce, its third consecutive weekly gain.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 |
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