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Eric Dutram: Gold made a strong start this year, but it has been sliding for the last four months, due to a combination of various factors. However, if we look at the longer term, for the last eleven years, gold has been gaining popularity and seeing regular price increases. Read more…
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Christian Magoon: Time to Short Gold Prices (NYSEARCA:GLD)? With gold prices on the decline, many investors are beginning to short gold as a way to profit from this trend. Over the last month a variety of short gold products have produced double digit returns. Read more…
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Christian Magoon: Gold is getting hammered – first by the crushed hopes for QE3 in late February and now by the EU debt crisis and weakening economies within India and China. These factors combined this week to push traditional gold ETFs into negative territory for 2012. Read more…
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Michael Johnston: As the ETF universe has expanded by leaps and bounds in recent years, investors now have tools at their disposal to accomplish almost objective. From plain vanilla stock and bond indexes to hyper-targeted regional and sector funds, there are ETFs to bet on just about every asset class. Read more…
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Jared Cummans: Contango is simply an unavoidable phenomenon of the commodity market; at some point almost all commodities will fall into this pattern. For those unfamiliar with the term, contango simply refers to a scenario in which near month futures are cheaper than those expiring further into Read more…
Jared Cummans: Gold ETFs have become some of the most popular options for investors to make a speculative play on their favorite precious metal. With unparalleled transparency, rock bottom fees, and superior liquidity, the exchange-traded structure has emerged in recent years as the vehicle of choice Read more…
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Larry D. Spears: Gold prices (NYSE:GLD) have had a phenomenal run over the past year, but the distinguishing feature of the market in recent weeks has been extreme volatility – volatility that has many investors nervous about protecting the big profits they’ve rolled up and looking for ways to Read more…
A picture, it’s said, is worth a thousand words. So take a look at the picture below and try to come up with a thousand words to describe what you see Read more…
Before moving on to the timing-related part of this essay (in fact a continuation of our previous essay Breakouts in Gold and Silver Prices), let’s take a few moments to focus on the big picture. Read more…
If you’ve been following my work closely, then you know the markets have arrived at critical turning points. Read more…
Wow! The reaction to last week’s column on my position on gold and silver and my replies to the emails and comments pouring in on my blog was unbelievable! Read more…
As the Federal Reserve continues to maintain its short-term nominal interest rate target near or at zero and political and social unrest continue to spread in North Africa and the Middle East, the Read more…
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The S&P 500 has rebounded about 100% in 100 weeks. What crisis? What new normal? The economy is recovering and happy times are back again. Old normal is back. Stocks for the long run! Read more…
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We have written before that institutional investors are going to wake up one day and realize that they need to buy gold for their portfolios. Well, that’s beginning to happen. 
In Saturday’s weekly summary of Smart Investing Daily articles from last week, I promised you an article on gold prices… particularly as the price of gold has spiked higher than $1,486. 
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