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Entries Tagged ‘Gold’

Have The Metals Bottomed?

Over the years I’ve had much more success trading precious metals than the stock market. Even though they tend be more extreme or erratic than the stocks, they tend to move in more predictable patterns. The best market for trading in the second half of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011 was silver. After [...]

Silver Rally Intensifies

With Silver Futures hitting 30 year highs all Silver ETFs are now at new 52 week as well as all time highs including the double silver etf AGQ. The only one that hasn’t reached a new 52 week high is the silver mining ETF as miners in general continue to lag the performance of the [...]

Will The Gold And Silver Rally Continue In 2011?

As the #1 performing group in the ETF world Silver looks like it’s going to close out the year on a strong note as SLV is up over $1.00 today.  This will close out the strongest year in silver since 1979.  Back in 1980 the rally went completely vertical following the new year and topped [...]

The Problem With The Euro

Over the past few years there has been talk about the United States, Canada and Mexico forming a unified currency often referred to as the Amero.  As the sovereign debt crisis evolves in the Euro Zone it should shed some light on the downside of several countries of unequal strength sharing a common currency. Normally [...]