Big rallies in gold and silver on Friday added excitement to the bullishness that has defined price action in the precious metals for the past two months. Because they are priced in dollars, both metals… Read More
200-Day Moving Average Remains Critical In Both S&P 500 & NASDAQ 100
Commodities have a well-deserved reputation of being far more volatile than the stock market. We are mainly commodity traders which means we are accustomed to volatility. However, the Trump Presidency has completely turned this notion… Read More
“Sell the Rip” in the S&P 500
In our first blog post of the New Year we identified the current condition in stocks as a bear market and explained some of the differences between bear markets and bull markets. The way to… Read More
3 Observations: Stocks, Dollar, Gold & Silver
The New Year brings hope that those unmet goals will, with the right amount of effort and planning, become reality. The New Year also brings a flood of prognosticators who have dusted off their crystal… Read More
Don’t You Want to “Strangle” Silver?
Like people, markets have personalities. Take silver. Silver is rude. Silver is cantankerous. Silver can be fickle. But folks LOVE silver anyway. The “poor man’s gold” has an allure that has stood the test of… Read More
Why Volatility is Here to Stay: Three Things We’re Watching Now
RMB Group has been trying to make sense of the volatility that has defined stocks and other key asset classes since the S&P 500 topped out in unspectacular fashion in late September. Is this two-month… Read More
Ready to Defuse the Bond Bomb?
Interest rates measure the price of money. That makes them the world’s ultimate commodity. Like most commodities, the price of money has been falling for a long time. The yield on T-year Treasury notes topped… Read More
Key Commodities Bottoming: Part 2 Bases Forming in Corn, Soybeans and Gold
In Part 1 of our blog post we examined potential bottoms forming in sugar and coffee. Now let’s take a look at corn and soybeans – two of America’s most critical crops. Soybeans make up… Read More
Key Commodities Bottoming: Part 1
The winds are shifting. Critical commodities like corn, soybeans, sugar, hogs and coffee appear to be taking a cue from the energy sector and forming what we believe could be multi-year bottoms in the entire… Read More
Is Bitcoin the “New Gold”, the Currency of the Future or Something Else Altogether?
In 2009, a Norwegian student named Kristoffer Koch bought 5,000 bitcoins for roughly $27 as part of his thesis on encryption technology. He put them in his digital wallet and promptly forgot about them. Four… Read More