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While price action was somewhat volatile this week (intraweek price extremes in gold were more than $50 and a full dollar in silver), prices ended mixed, with gold up a dollar and silver down 22 cents (0.9%). The relative weakness...

Short ‘em When They’re Up, Short ‘em When They’re Down Yeah, I’ve had those slightly revised lyrics from the Don Henley song, “Dirty Laundry” in my head these past few days, after uncovering that the 8 big shorts on the...

Following three weeks of lower prices, gold and silver prices snapped back to the upside this week, with gold ending $52 (2.9%) higher and with silver tacking on $1.55 (6.8%). As a result of silver’s relative outperformance, the silver/gold price...

Before getting into the Bitcoin issue, it turns out that the topic of much of Saturday’s discussion, the likely appointment of Gary Gensler as Deputy Treasury Secretary, didn’t come to pass, as a different candidate was nominated. I’m not sure...

The Commitments of Traders (COT) report just released and covering COMEX futures positioning as of the close of business Tuesday, November 24, featured some managed money selling and commercial buying, as expected, but not significant amounts. Prices were lower over...

Just when you think the downward price storm has reached its climax, the COMEX commercial crooks show up to dish out more. For the holiday-shortened and therefore known in advance trading period to be more illiquid than typically, gold prices...