Gold

Many articles make reference to the price of gold costing x dollars per “troy" ounce (i.e. ozt). Why is the term "troy" used? And what do the terms "karat" and "carat" mean?

This market looks gorgeous, and has lots of upside potential in 2019.

Gold is trading at its highest level in more than 5 years and is likely on the verge of a major break out that should elevate prices of the yellow metal much higher. Here's why.

These charts tell me that, even though gold is still down from its 2011 peak, investors continue to value it as an attractive store of value.

We can use correlations to develop short term cases for various markets and this article analyzes the relationship - the correlation - between the value of the U.S. dollar and the price of gold bullion.

As a rule of thumb when the ratio is below 9, oil is relatively expensive (and gold is relatively inexpensive) and when the ratio is above 20, oil is relatively inexpensive (and gold is relatively expensive).

My long standing target for gold of $10,000 in today’s money and much, much higher in inflationary terms, is now more probable than ever but I hope it will never be achieved. When gold goes to $10,000, It will not just reflect inflation and falling currencies like in the 1970s but a much more serious or even catastrophic situation both in the U.S. and globally so let’s look at a potential scenario for the next few years. This is obviously not a forecast but more of a rough sketch of what could happen:

We may be nearing a point in which gold takes center stage among investors once again...[as] good news may be on the way for gold bulls in the form of strengthening technicals.

Independent research recommends that an allocation of 10% to gold and 5% to silver should be enough to ensure you will do much better in the coming market crash. Here is the rationale.

SLV is trading at an attractive level, and appears to have entered a new uptrend towards the end of last year. The recent correction appears to be a positive technical development which should allow market participants to enter SLV at an appealing point around current levels.