If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One of the most interesting realizations I have gained from studying the financial markets is that success comes from developing a clear set of rules and sticking to them despite the current psychology and tenor of the market. Contrary to…
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Rare Earth Mining Stocks Should Continue Run in 2011 As China Restricts Exports
What is so rare as a day in June, the poet asks? The answer ... a sector in play, on a perfect day. The rare earth sector is experiencing an explosion of investment interest as China continues to place restrictions on Rare Earth Oxides (REO). Resource investors are drooling over the potential price explosion like…
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Fronteer Gold (FRG) Continues To Expand Long Canyon
There is a growing scarcity of available precious metal mines in the world. The old majors such as Barrick (ABX), Goldcorp (GG), and Newmont Mining (NEM) are facing diminishing reserves in their existing mines. They are mature miners and their pockets are bulging with cheap dollars. Moreover, these majors are competing with the Chinese, Russians, Japanese, and Koreans…
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Reveille for the American Nuclear Industry
A few days ago the French upstaged the US mighty nuclear reactor construction industry under our very noses in broad daylight, making us appear as Homer Simpson napping at the control plant of Mr. Burns’ atomic energy plant in Springfield. Most of the media never mentioned the event. Only one gave it token coverage hidden…
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Is The Chinese Bubble About to Burst?
After QE2, analysts were looking for possible consequences of the Federal Reserve Bank’s actions. What has become apparent is that the Fed has created another bubble in China. Investors globally have transferred devalued US dollars and euros to buy Chinese property and equities. China has had to combat imported inflation with rapidly rising asset prices.…
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Watch Out For A Fake Breakout In Gold And Silver
In my studies of the financial markets, I have found the study of trading tactics to be similar to my studies of military history and sports. In 329 BC, Alexander the Great, in his mid-20s, led his army through the Hindu Kush mountains to Central Asia to expand his empire that covered 1 million square…
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Gold Mining Mergers And Acquisitions In 2011
Video Interview With thestreet.com on some of the potential targets for majors in 2011.
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Will Year-End Tax-Loss Selling Have an Impact on Gold, Silver Investors?
What has been completely overlooked or not mentioned during this sizable run up in stock market profits, including the precious metals sector, is the imminent advent of tax-loss selling. Every year around this time, as sure as snow falls in Vermont, more than ever, there are reasons why this unmentioned event is apt to at…
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Uranium Miners Hit New Highs
In 1883, a historic cataclysm of 10 days shook the world and vaporized Krakatoa, an island between Java and Sumatra. An umbrella of ash rose 50 miles high and sent sonic reverberations seven times around the world. Deaths numbered 120,000. Scientists of that time were awed by the magnitude of nature’s forces that were being…
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Russia And China Send Clear Message to Bernanke
When time permits, I like to relax with a good mystery story. One of my favorite masters of the genre is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. A few days ago a story appeared on the front page of China Daily that is worthy in emulating the masters great classic: The Dog That Did Not Bark.…
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