Were The Stress Tests For Real? Volume Says Otherwise

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As investors debate the validity of the stress test to gauge the financial health of European banks, the market has definitely signaled clues on the charts that we are nowhere out of the woods yet with the sovereign debt issue. …
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This Trading Method Is About to Signal Another Buy On Gold and Silver

Trading against the market herd, also known as going contrary can be quite profitable, but timing is another challenge entirely .  Many contrarians make calls too early as irrational markets tend to stay irrational too long for most investors to stay in them.   Nevertheless, when used in conjunction with other technical tools it can…
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Using Oscillators To Time Stock Trades

Fears of far-reaching government oversight in the financial industry and weak economic data coming out of Philadelphia are contributing to today's modest decline in the market.  Many fear that this bill will hurt the financial sector as more government oversight is required.  The bank bill implies that the government can have access to control banks…
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Analysis Of The Death Cross Sell Signal

Moving averages are used by many traders to identify trends as they smooth out price action and act as key support on the way up, and resistance on the way down.  In fact, it is one of the most widely used technical indicators and extremely popular among high frequency traders because it is so clear…
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Taseko's Prosperity Project, Future of Mining in British Columbia in Jeopardy

Late Friday,  the Federal Review Panel came out with a recommendation that will be forwarded to the Prime Minister and his cabinet assessing the environmental impact of the mine.  The Federal Review Panel did not weigh in the economic affects of this project.  They made environmental recommendations for Taseko to take if the mine is…
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Banking Reform Pushing Financials Lower and Silver Higher

Major mining indexes appear to be approaching a major breakout point fueled by the sweeping overhaul and takeover of banks.  Banks have been under pressure from a continuing recession, high unemployment, a weak housing market and now more government oversight and audits. This does not help a recovery process for housing or financials.  These are…
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Relative Strength Signals Confirm Breakout in U.S. Gold (UXG)

El Gallo's story is continuing to impress the mining community.  U.S. Gold has invested a lot of capital into drilling El Gallo this year and believe that by 2013 they can be producing up to 10,000,000 ounces of silver a year plus 35,000 ounces of gold.  This drilling program has been extremely successful.  They have expanded the…
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U.S. Economy Breaking Down, Attempts To Prevent Deflation Failing

The United States is facing a crisis of a rising dollar and a recession where basic  industries over the past several months have experienced a nasty decline.  This condition is a concern for policy makers as the federal stimulus appears to be wearing off.  The economy seems to be slowing and cash, treasuries, silver and…
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