January 2017

Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the gold and silver markets. Our proprietary cycle indicator is up. The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term. The gold sector is on a short-term buy […]

Investors can profit in resources, says Lior Gantz, editor of Wealth Research Group, by partnering with and investing like the big players in the field. The natural resource industry is a maze of companies—thousands of them—but when you get right down to it, this entire sector is 95% made up of average businessman and a

The deal Great Panther announced last month to acquire Coricancha in Peru from Nyrstar is getting high marks from one analyst. Great Panther Silver Ltd. (GPR:TSX; GPL:NYSE.MKT) announced on Dec. 20 that it had reached an agreement with Nyrstar (NYR:BSE) to acquire the Coricancha gold-silver-lead-zinc-copper mine and mill complex (CMC) in Peru. According to the

Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger examines market forces and outlines his trades for the first part of the year. I was listening to a news report on CNN yesterday covering this travesty surrounding the impending exit of Barack Obama and wife Michelle from the White House and as the commentator described the sequence of events

Bob Moriarty of 321Gold explores how sentiment affects trading in the precious metals markets, and discusses a new service that can help investors gauge sentiment. I saw a correction in the metals coming as early as August. I wrote a piece early in the month I called Money Always Moves from Weak Hands into Strong

Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger reflects on how events of 2016 affected the markets, and lays out his strategy for 2017, which includes diamonds and uranium. One of the most bothersome peccadillos of the advisory community, be it emanations from home computer blogs or the Ivory Towers of Wall Street, is the annoying tendency to

Technical analyst Jack Chan looks back on the precious metals and energy markets in 2016, as well as forward into 2017. As always, I provide no predictions or forecasts for the future. As a successful long-term investor, I remain faithful to Warren Buffett’s life-long commitment in investing by observing his two rules. Rule #1 –