Futures Outlook

We’ve written at length about the importance of the 200-day moving average in the S&P 500, starting with our first blog post of the New Year. Buoyed by a Fed that swung from hawkish to… Read More

Platinum used to be the king of metals. Once considered the “rich man’s gold,” platinum had more cachet. “Platinum” record albums sell more than gold ones. “Platinum plans” have more perks than “gold plans.” But… Read More

Gold continued its surge higher last week, hitting our first near-term target of $1,325 per ounce on Thursday before backing off a bit on Friday. January and February are typically very good months for gold,… Read More

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

A deadly and extremely contagious virus is threatening China’s hog producers. African swine fever (ASF) has been found in pigs transported from Northern to Southern China. ASF has the potential to kill every single hog… Read More

There is probably no more frustrating market to trade than silver. The poor man’s gold has a nasty habit of breaking all the rules. It refuses to rally when all indicators seem to point upward,… Read More

It has been a brutal weather year in the Northern Hemisphere: 119 people died from a heatwave in Japan; 29 succumbed to heat in South Korea; 91 people perished in wildfires in Greece and at… Read More

Remember when “peak oil” was all the rage? Doomsday predictions of the world running out of the black, sticky stuff had analysts the world over predicting prices would soar well into the $100s and even… Read More

There is a lot of talk in the financial press about abnormally low volatility in stocks. VIX has dropped below 10% numerous times since the Trump rally began. But one of the most surprising factors… Read More