Commodity Trading Articles

08/09/2011 - Bull Market In Gold Over With Double Top?

A few weeks ago I penned a public article and private forecast for my subscribers calling for a major correction in Gold being due. 72 hours after my forecast, Gold [ more ]

29/08/2011 - What Could Lie Ahead for the S&P 500 &

Now that Mr. Bernanke’s speech is old news, what was the financial media thinking exactly? A significant number of financial writers have been anticipating discuss [ more ]

22/08/2011 - Gold & Stocks Are About To Move in Opposite

The past few weeks traders and investors have been completely spooked from the surge of negative news and collapsing stock prices. This fear can be seen by looking at t [ more ]

09/08/2011 - Truth Behind A Crude Oil ETF

A crude oil ETF is a recent entry in the oil investment market that embraces advantages of both long-established commodities futures with a new approach of real-time In [ more ]

13/07/2011 - Learning How to Trade the GDX Fibonacci But

One of the many useful characteristics of options is that the astute trader can design strategies to capture profit from predicted price action forecasts from a wide va [ more ]

07/07/2011 - Oil Prices Will Remain At High Level

Oil prices established now in the world at the rate of $100-120/barrel are reasonable, said the head of "Lukoil" Vagit Alekperov. World's oil consumption is growing, es [ more ]

23/06/2011 - dollar, gold, silver, oil and the SP500 Mid

Thursday June 23rd - Mid Week Report [ more ]

20/06/2011 - Stock Market Flashing A Buy Signal?

Since the first trading session in May we have seen the stock market sell off. The old saying “sell in May and go away” was dead on again this year. Here we are [ more ]

20/06/2011 - Trading Gold and Silver Futures

If you are looking for a hedge against inflation, a speculative play, an alternative investment class or a commercial hedge, gold and silver futures can be a viable way [ more ]

09/06/2011 - Key Support & Resistance Levels for Financi

During the past 4 months we have seen the financial sector (banks) under selling pressure. With real estate prices continuing to fall and foreclosures picking up spe [ more ]

08/06/2011 - Monitoring XLF Prevented a Potentially Deva

My most recent analysis regarding the S&P 500 has been proven to be inaccurate as a failed breakout has transpired on the S&P 500 this past week. While there [ more ]

25/05/2011 - The U.S. Dollar’s Impact on the S&P 500,

In doing some brief reading around the blogosphere I have noticed that most pundits are writing off gold, silver, and oil entirely. In fact, I have even read that th [ more ]

24/05/2011 - Where Now For Gold and Silver?

David A. Banister – www.MarketTrendForecast.com Well, that was fun wasn’t it gang? A huge drop in silver from $49.75 to the $32 ranges after 8 months of rallying [ more ]

18/05/2011 - Is a Stock And Commodity Meltdown About to

May 16th, 2011 Here is quick pre-week analysis video explaining what I think could happen in the gold, silver, oil and the stock market. [ more ]

05/05/2011 - Parabolic Moves are Only Temporary for Silv

The past few weeks we have been seeing the US Dollar slide to new lows at an increasing rate. The strong devaluation of the dollar has sent precious metals like silv [ more ]

12/04/2011 - Is Copper The New Gold?

Many people invest in precious metal commodities such as gold and silver but not everyone considers non-precious base metals like copper and nickel. Unlike precious met [ more ]

05/04/2011 - The U.S. Dollar’s Impact on Price Action

I was starting to put on my bullish hat on Friday morning when out of the blue an ugly close has forced me to rethink my position. After viewing a few hundred charts, I [ more ]

26/03/2011 - Why Is The World Looking Up To Gold?

Thanks to the vagaries of the changing economic situation as well as the uncertainty of the financial market, a large number of people have begun to invest in gold. Wel [ more ]

25/03/2011 - Another Do or Die Point for Equities & Gold

Equities and Precious Metals are on the edge of another rally and it could start as early as tomorrow. [ more ]

22/03/2011 - How to Gauge the Equities Market so you don

Over the years I have found an indicator/trading tool which I find help spot intermediate trend reversals. I am going to quickly cover in this report. As most of you [ more ]

17/03/2011 - AMGN & The Big Top – A Lesson On Triple C

One of the characteristics of option trades that is particularly vexing to the new trader is the almost infinite variation in which individual options can be combined t [ more ]

13/03/2011 - It’s Do or Die Week for Equities and Gold

The past couple weeks have been choppy in the equities market. While the strong intraday moves are great for day traders, it is extremely difficult for swing/positio [ more ]

10/03/2011 - Gold & Equities on the Verge of Breaking Ou

The past couple weeks we have seen strong distribution selling in the equities market followed by equally large days of buying. These buying and selling frenzies hav [ more ]

03/03/2011 - Gold, Silver, Oil, SP500 & the Dollar Long

Trading with multiple time frames – Every now and then it’s always a good idea to look at some different time frames to be sure you have a solid understandin [ more ]

28/02/2011 - Gold, Dollar, Stocks & Sentiment at Major P

So far 2011 has been an interesting to say the least. Stocks and commodities have been jumping around with high volatility generating mixed trading signals. This cho [ more ]

10/02/2011 - Gold Miners Index May Be Warning Us…

The past couple weeks I have been keeping a close eye the price of gold and the gold miners index. I check to see if its pointing to higher or lower prices in the ne [ more ]

10/02/2011 - High Altitude Bombing in Oil

At the risk of stating the obvious, the recent market action in the commodities has been manic with wild gyrations of price in a wide variety of basic materials, met [ more ]

07/02/2011 - It’s Super Gold Sunday!

While Ben Bernanke says we are not seeing any inflation, I think most of us know that is a load of BS as other countries like Egypt see food prices surging. Over the [ more ]

02/02/2011 - Do I See Lipstick On A Pig? Or Is The Stock

As most sophisticated investors and traders are aware, the U.S. Federal government has run up significant deficits and the long term debt burden is becoming a drain [ more ]

02/02/2011 - Silver Butterfly: An Option Trading Lesson

One of the notes that I keep stuck to my computer reads “remember seasonality”. For those just now becoming familiar with options, you may assume I am reminding [ more ]

27/01/2011 - Trading Analysis The General Public Does No

Yesterday I pointing out how any weakness would most likely get bought back up into the close ahead of Obama speaking and we did get that. I also figured today the [ more ]

26/01/2011 - Warning to Options Traders Looking at NetFl

One of the hardest things for me to remember is not to believe everything I see. I am a sucker for the latest “can’t lose” strategy supported by the experts. [ more ]

23/01/2011 – The State of the Markets

I’ve been forecasting a Mid January top in the SP 500 (Us Markets) for multiple weeks now well in advance. My work had looked for 1285 as a minimal upside rall [ more ]

19/01/2011 - Panic Selling Hit SP500 Today, Silver and G

Today the stock market bled out with a river of red candles. All of the recent gains vanished in one session. Strong selling volume sessions like this are typically [ more ]

17/01/2011 - U.S. Dollar, Gold, & Silver Were Down on Th

The U.S. Dollar Index Futures have been sold heavily and interestingly enough, gold and silver have not rallied. In fact, gold and silver have sold off while the dol [ more ]

13/01/2011 - Precious Metals and the Dollar’s Next Big

There is a potentially big setup in precious metals sector along with the dollar which looks like its about to unfold. Since mid-October of last year gold started to [ more ]

10/01/11 - How to Find Bottoms for the SP500, Dow, Nasda

It was a great first week in the market for 2011. Volume picked up as traders slowly return from holidays focusing on the markets again. Looking forward volume shoul [ more ]

07/01/2011 - The S&P 500 & Gold Under Pressure on Friday

With the holiday season in the rear view mirror and volume slowly creeping back into the marketplace, I can’t help but wonder what lies ahead. The optimist in [ more ]

06/01/2011 - How to Play the Current Silver, Gold and Do

This has been an interesting week for traders and investors as precious metals melt down on the back of a rising dollar. Equities on the other hand bucked the trend [ more ]

05/01/11 - How Long Can the S&P 500, Precious Metals, &

In the fine print of most investment advertisements or in the softly spoken disclaimer at the end of a commercial, we generally read or hear the phrase “past resul [ more ]

04/01/11 - How You Trade the Big Trends in 2011

I hope everyone had a great holiday and new years! It’s time to reset our profit counter to zero and start looking for new profitable trades along with ma [ more ]

20/12/2010 - Why Gold is About To Power Higher to Comple

The gold bull has been moving in very reliable Elliott Wave and Fibonacci patterns for many years now, but once in awhile [ more ]

20/12/2010 - The Holiday Grind Is Here For 10 Days Only

It’s that time again when volume dries up and prices rise into the new year. A lot of individuals are scrambling to prepare for the holidays, even though we ha [ more ]

17/12/2010 - Gold Is In Hot Water

Life has a funny way of reminding a person that he is not really in control of what is going on around him. While he may be proficient in a few specific areas, his o [ more ]

16/12/2010 - The Inverse Dollar Relationship, SPX and Fe

So far this week we have been seeing fear creep in the equities market. This Wednesday we started to see fear (green indicator) reach a level which tells me to start [ more ]

13/12/2010 - Gold & the Overall Strength of the Market

The past week has been interesting to say the least. Gold is trying to find support while the SP500 grinds its way higher. Let’s jump into the charts and analysis [ more ]

10/12/2010 - A Gold Correction Is An Option

In the past few weeks I have made the case that gold might be nearing a correction. I understand that people get defensive regarding gold (no pun intended), but I do [ more ]

09/12/2010 - Is The Herd Trading Gold & SP500?

Over the past 2 weeks we have seen the market sentiment change three times from extreme bullish to bearish and back to bullish as of today. Normally we don’t see t [ more ]

09/12/2010 - Is The Herd Trading Gold & SP500?

Over the past 2 weeks we have seen the market sentiment change three times from extreme bullish to bearish and back to bullish as of today. Normally we don’t see t [ more ]

03/12/2010 - The S&P, Gold, and Oil Remain Range Bound

Pre-Market trading on Friday morning was wild as the S&P 500 did not react well to the latest jobs report. Sellers stepped in and pushed down the e-mini contract [ more ]

02/12/2010 - Broad Market Reversal - Better Hold On To Y

This had been an exiting week for traders as the equities market was on a verge of a major sell off. Fortunately, we were watching the market very closely and saw th [ more ]

01/12/2010 - The S&P 500, Gold, Oil, & the Banks – Wha

Sellers were in control most of the trading session on Tuesday, however an overnight buying surge pushed the S&P 500 back up to overhead resistance as the direct [ more ]

01/12/2010 - Gold will head to 1480-1525 before a major

Excerpted from TMTF November 28th: Gold has been consolidating other than a spike to an intermediate wave 3 top of $1424, for about 7 weeks o [ more ]

01/12/2010 - Report: Controlling Your Trades, Money, and

With the recent market moves I've talked to a number of people who've been shaken to the core. There have been great set-ups (many I've told you about or discussed) [ more ]

28/11/2010 - Gold/Silver – Controlling Your Trades, Mo

Last week we had typical pre-holiday light volume trading going into US Thanksgiving. The previous week I warned every one to trade with extreme caution because of t [ more ]

22/11/2010 - The Gold & Silver Play Has Gone To Gre

The past few months it seems the gold and silver play has been getting a little crowed with everyone wanting to own gold. While I am a firm believer that these preci [ more ]

18/11/2010 - Bonds, Dollar, SP500 & Gold Have Changed Di

There have been some major trend changes recently and it looks as though more investments are about to follow. The real question though is… Are You Ready To Take A [ more ]

15/11/2010 - Dollar Continues to Control Gold, Oil &

Over the past few months it seems as though everything has been tied to the dollar. Simple inter-market analysis makes it obvious that almost everything in the finan [ more ]

How long and how high for Gold, and how to play it

David Banister- www.MarketTrendForecast.com Regular read [ more ]

SPX’s Running Correction, Gold’s Setup, Oil Explodes

The financial markets continue to climb the wall of worry on the back of more Fed Quantitative Easing. Those trying to pick a top in this choppy bull market may prov [ more ]

How Quantitative Easing Will Affect Bonds and Precious M

Many investors are struggling to understand the ramifications of the recently announced QE2 plan. Quantitative easing, or more simply known as money printing, is a dilu [ more ]

Gold Trading Strategy Called Removing The Profits!

Trading gold and silver can make you a fortune. The best way to trade gold, silver or other precious metals is to trade futures contract. Now, trading futures can be ri [ more ]

How Do Commodity Prices Affect The Stock Market?

Most casual stock market investors do not pay too much attention to the current price of the various different commodities such as oil, gold and copper, for example. Ho [ more ]

Gold, Oil, SPX Trading Around the Election

November 1st, 2010 This week we have a major wild card (Election) happening on Tuesday. Most of you know I [ more ]

Mid-Week Market Report on Equities and Metals

Oct 14th Its been an interesting week with stocks, commodities and currencies having a knee jerk reaction to the FOMC minutes released Tuesda [ more ]

The 5 year massive bull run in Gold and Gold Stocks cont

The 5 year massive bull run in Gold and Gold Stocks continues Last August I penned an article predicting a massive five year bull run in gold and gold stocks. I outl [ more ]

Gold Trading Tips - The Top 3 Things You Must Know Befor

Gold investing is gaining popularity as gold price is on a strong uptrend for the past few years and there are many gold trading tips you can find online. But if you ar [ more ]

Gold Will Be The Best Investment For Years To Come

Gold is respected everywhere in the world thanks to its value and its history. It may be said that the yellow metal meant a real binder for such a large number of human [ more ]

Why Should I Trade Commodities Using CFDs?

For those able to take advantage of commodities it's a reality - and within this guide is all the free information you will need to make it your reality too, as well re [ more ]

A Good Financial Mystery Revealed!

Earlier this month The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) sent gold and financial markets in a tizzy, publishing and article entitled "Central Banks Swap Tons of Gold To Raise C [ more ]

Trading Options on Futures Oil Contracts

One of the problems facing someone wishing to trade futures contracts on oil is the margin required can be very large, requiring a large trading account and also presen [ more ]

Commodity Tips - What is Commodity Trading?

The following few lines will discuss about the commodity tips for new investors. [ more ]

The Leaders of the Gold Rush

In the Mexican mountains the conquistadors were the ones that were prospecting for gold in the old days. Now, things have changed and the ones that are doing the prospe [ more ]

Dollar Index Futures & Correlations to Crude Oil & Gold

Scalpers, Intra-Day, Position & Swing traders alike benefit from the correlations seen between the US Dollar Futures Index (DX) & Commodity Futures such as Gold (GC) & [ more ]

Commodity Trading For Beginners - What is It?

Between 2008 and 2009, the world economic bubble that was looking so nice and shiny burst, and what a mess it was! And it was all tied to financial markets. For most pe [ more ]

Trading Commodities For the Long-Term

In this article, you will learn how taking a long-term investment approach in commodities can be beneficial. An essential part of becoming an investor in the commoditie [ more ]

The Basics of Gold ETF Trading For the Next Decade

Gold ETF Trading is one way to leverage your portfolio and take advantage of the gold market. The acronym ETF stands for exchange traded funds and provides the investor [ more ]

Playing the Odds…Trading Commodities with the “House

Insurance companies collect premium with the expectation of future payouts. By knowing the probability of a claim, they [ more ]

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