Gold/Silver Futures Market Prices Enter Fantasyland
Amplifying market volatility can be profitable for those who are highly skilled at short-term trading. But most people who try to trade will be wiped out....
Mike Gleason
December 5th, 2014
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Amplifying market volatility can be profitable for those who are highly skilled at short-term trading. But most people who try to trade will be wiped out....
Mike Gleason
December 5th, 2014
During this quiet Thanksgiving week on this trading front, we felt it was an appropriate time to check in again with Guy Christopher to discuss some broader topics on the minds of precious metals buye...
Mike Gleason
November 26th, 2014
The United States monetary establishment continues to maintain ultra-low rates while charting a path for eventual rate hikes. On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee released the minutes from...
Mike Gleason
November 21st, 2014
Silver prices have been hammered so low relative to gold and relative to mining costs that savvy individual investors are rushing to get their hands on silver in physical form. Last week the U.S. Min...
Mike Gleason
November 14th, 2014
Precious metals prices have taken a shellacking amidst the popular perception that trillion-dollar annual deficits are behind us and a new normal will play out in the years ahead. But a debt crisis is...
Mike Gleason
November 7th, 2014
The Federal Reserve just drove the final nail into the coffin of Quantitative Easing, and that spooked gold and silver markets. On Wednesday the Fed announced the final taper of its massive bond-buyi...
Mike Gleason
October 31st, 2014
Physical buying among the smaller retail buyers that we serve remains robust despite the tough, grinding market conditions and low headline inflation numbers....
Mike Gleason
October 24th, 2014
With downward pressure hitting commodities, stocks, and the economy, some are calling for the Federal Reserve to introduce more stimulus....
Mike Gleason
October 17th, 2014
The Dow Jones fell more than 330 points on Thursday, and the flight from stocks drove some safe haven gold buying. Gold showed a slight gain on the day, adding to more significant gains posted earlie...
Mike Gleason
October 10th, 2014
After declining precipitously in September, gold and silver prices are continuing the downtrend here in the early part of October....
Mike Gleason
October 3rd, 2014
The stock market slid on Thursday, led down by tech giant Apple. Thursday's Durable Goods reports shows orders plunged by a record 18.2% in August. A decline was expected due to fluctuations in dema...
Mike Gleason
September 26th, 2014
This week the silver market made a brief lunge over the abyss before closing just above a critical technical level....
Mike Gleason
September 19th, 2014
The silver market sits precariously on the edge of an abyss on the charts. If silver breaches through $18.50 and closes below it on a weekly basis that could be a bearish development, at least in the...
Mike Gleason
September 12th, 2014
This week it's my pleasure to introduce our company's new name – Money Metals Exchange. While our name has changed, our core business philosophy and our mission have not....
Mike Gleason
September 5th, 2014
The housing market has been propped up by the Federal Reserve since 2008. The Fed has purchased more than two and a half trillion dollars in mortgage securities since embarking on the first round of ...
Mike Gleason
August 29th, 2014
All eyes are on Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this Friday morning as Federal Reserve chairwoman gives her keynote speech to a gathering of global central bankers. Investors will be looking for potential sig...
Mike Gleason
August 22nd, 2014
This week saw the end of an era for the silver market – and potentially a new dawn for investors in the metal who have long cried foul over price manipulation....
Mike Gleason
August 15th, 2014
What's going to sustain the rally is higher prices. Once you get silver, let us say above $26, and gold above $1,550, then you're going to see a lot more people coming to the market. Not because of so...
Mike Gleason
August 8th, 2014
Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee announcement trimmed another $10 billion off the Fed's monthly asset purchases and kept short-term rates near zero as expected. The Fed also noted a slight u...
Mike Gleason
August 1st, 2014
Fed chairperson Janet Yellen has repeatedly indicated that the Fed will tolerate higher rates of inflation before it will stop trying to stimulate a sluggish economy and job market with accommodative ...
Mike Gleason
July 25th, 2014