Todays chart compares gold and the USD. The black line is gold, and the USD is red. Upon a quick glance of the chart, you can easily see that most of the time, gold and the greenback move in opposite directions. That tendency makes gold a hedge against a falling dollar. On occasion, the Read More
Golden days
I’ve been golds whipping boy for a few years now. And for good reason—the metal had been stuck in a giant consolidation pattern that offered no reason to buy into the metal – beyond short termed trades as it girated up and down in that consolidation. In fact, the long termed chart below was posted Read More
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Gold is a simple trade
Gold & oil
I get questions regarding these commodities often enough that I thought I’d present their current technical picture. Here goes: Gold Gold has a big wall ahead of it before we can say it’s out of the consolidation that it’s been stuck in since 2013. Despite the recent excitement (in December I suggested it would Read More
Gold: hold, fold, or go in bold
Gold looks to be staging a minor rally. Is it worth a trade? Perhaps. Before analysing the prospects of trading gold – I thought I would re-visit a chart that I have posted before. Red line is the S&P 500, black line is gold. It’s a correlation study on gold vs. the S&P 500 going Read More
Gold oversold
I have presented this gold chart (above) on my blog in the past. In my May 2018 blog, where you can see this same chart, gold had just broken $1300. In the blog I noted that sentiment was setting up for a short rebound – but I did not feel that we would see the Read More
Gold breaks $1300 – a buying opportunity?
I will be the first to admit a bad call – readers of this blog know that I noted last summer’s false “sell” Bear-o-meter reading– here. However, I do like to think that most of my observations are reasonably accurate. Remember, my view is not so much about hitting it outta the park, but in Read More
What to hold when stocks fall
A bear market can be identified by the break in some technical parameters, as I have discussed in my book Sideways (lower lows, lower highs, a break of the 200 day SMA). Adding to the evidence of a break in trend, your analysis may also been aided by observing the negative correlation of some other Read More
Ask me anything: Answers
Thanks to those who posted questions for this “Ask me anything” blog. I’ve chosen a few of them that I thought would be of interest to the widest number of readers. Let’s get started. How to buy stocks One reader asked me to write a blog on how we at ValueTrend buy stocks – Read More
Here’s where money is going
I’ve made no secret of it – we at ValueTrend hold a very strong belief that the market simply CANNOT continue to push high growth stocks up in a straight line. Something has to give sooner or later. Money may rotate out of some of these high flyers into value stocks, and/or overlooked sectors. There Read More