Strategies

At any given time, we know the international spot price for an ounce of refined gold but what about the gold an exploration or mining company has in the ground – how do we value that? We have the answer. Read on.

...Portfolio management is hard work. It's difficult picking out a set of positions that you can confidently hold for a number of years. Then, along the way, you run into issues of how to deal with positions getting too large, dealing with losers and overreacting (or not reacting enough) to news that is good or bad and what action to take. Awareness of these "habits" can be the first step in fixing, and hopefully rectifying, these problems to boost long-term wealth.

With historic stimulus tailwinds and a series of bullish medium-term technical signals, it looks as though a new cyclical bull market is getting underway in global equities.

The popular seasonal stock market saying "sell in May and go away" conveys that the stock market tends to under-perform in the six summer months compared to the six winter months but is this indeed the case?...Is this typical period of weakness in the summer months only seen in U.S. markets, or does it exist in other countries as well?

Is it really true that professional investors usually fail to beat the market and does that mean that regular investors shouldn’t even try, and just put their money in an index fund?

The current Fear & Greed index is 39 and remains at the “Fear” level for the 6th straight week.

Historically, over the last 50 years, there have virtually been no significant silver or gold rallies during a period when the USDollar Index has been rising - and that is exactly what it is doing these days.

When trading any kind of asset the emotional temperature of the market is often just as important as more easily measurable qualities like supply and demand and candlestick charts show buyer and seller sentiment, and how this was affecting the price of the item in question.

The current Fear & Greed index is 42 and remains at the “Fear” level for the 4th straight week.

It is important to know when the market opens and closes...[because] if you submit an order outside of regular stock market hours the order may not get filled until the market opens.