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Weekly Futures Recap With Mike Seery

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We’ve asked Michael Seery of SEERYFUTURES.COM to give our INO readers a weekly recap of the Futures market. He has been Senior Analyst for close to 15 years and has extensive knowledge of all of the commodity and option markets.

Michael frequently appears on multiple business networks including Bloomberg news, Fox Business, CNBC Worldwide, CNN Business, and Bloomberg TV. He is also a guest on First Business, which is a national and internationally syndicated business show.

Gold Futures

Gold futures rallied sharply off of a disappointing unemployment jobs number coming out this morning stating that we had added 75,000 jobs as we are expecting at around 200,000 sending gold up $16 closing right at session highs at 1,245 an ounce with a possible bottom at 1,180 being formed as traders rushed back into the precious metal thinking that the economy is doing much worse than expected. Gold is still in a mixed trend trading above its 20 day moving average but below the 100 day moving average settling last Friday at 1,239 going out up about $5 for the week and it will be very interesting to see what the next jobs report states if it’s another 75,000 you could be almost be assured that the Federal Reserve will continue its quantitative easing and might even add to it so if you’re bullish gold you’re hoping for another poor unemployment number next month. Continue reading "Weekly Futures Recap With Mike Seery" →

Chart to Watch - Starbucks Corp. (Nasdaq:SBUX)

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We've asked our friend Jim Robinson of profittrading.com to provide his expert analysis of charts to our readers. Each week he'll be analyzing a different chart using the Trade Triangles and his experience.

Today he is going to take a look at the technical picture of the Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX).

I hope you are having a GREAT week !

With stocks you use the monthly MarketClub Trade Triangles to tell trend and the weekly MarketClub Trade Triangles to time the entry and exit points.

With the monthly Trade Triangle pointing up and the weekly pointing down Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX) has set up a buying opportunity.

When the weekly Trade Triangle turns red (down) you wait for a new green weekly Trade Triangle (up) and then as long as the monthly Trade Triangle is still green you would go long Starbucks Corp.(NASDAQ:SBUX). Continue reading "Chart to Watch - Starbucks Corp. (Nasdaq:SBUX)" →

Zinc or Swim: Do Base Metals Have a Future?

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The Mining Report: How are the fundamental challenges facing the global base metals markets likely to play out in 2014?

Joseph Gallucci: There are several long-term issues that impacted copper and the other base metal spaces in 2013, and those long-term issues will persist for the foreseeable future. Allow me to explain the basics via a few examples:

Indonesia recently stopped the export of intermediary products, such as pig iron nickel. The country's leadership is increasingly practicing resource nationalism by restricting mining firms to in-house processing and to shipping only finished products. It is also unsettling that Intrepid Mines Ltd. (IAU:TSX; IAU:ASX) lost control of its project this year to an Indonesian partner!

In terms of supply chain disruptions in 2013, Grasberg and Bingham Canyon were two of the biggest issues, but we are still well below the annual average of a 5% supply disruption. This year has been an anomaly and quite low in that regard. Supply chain disruptions will definitely pick up going forward and they are impossible to predict.

For problems with mining infrastructure, Chile was the hot button. It has port access and infrastructure issues, and there are still no power agreements in place for many of Chile's mining development projects. These types of long-term issues will continue to impact the base metals sector into the future.

TMR: Were declining ore grades an issue in 2013? Continue reading "Zinc or Swim: Do Base Metals Have a Future?" →

U.S. unemployment benefit applications fall to 330,000

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The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 15,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 330,000, signaling fewer layoffs and steady job growth.

The Labor Department said Thursday that the less volatile four-week average dropped 9,750 to 349,000.

A Labor spokesman said there was no indication that snow and freezing weather around much of the country caused the drop in applications. The number of applications could fluctuate in the coming weeks because of harsh winter weather that closed some offices this week and last, said Yelena Shulyatyeva, a U.S. economist at the bank BNP Paribas.

Applications are a proxy for layoffs. They appear to have stabilized near pre-recession levels after a period of volatility around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. That suggests recent job gains will continue. Continue reading "U.S. unemployment benefit applications fall to 330,000" →

Precious Metals: Risk Management to Opportunity

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What Has Been

A solid 2.5 years of risk management (to varying degrees) has been required of precious metals investors.  It was most intensely required after the announcement of QE3, when the net commercial short position in silver began a relentless march toward a very bearish alignment in late 2012 and then the HUI Gold Bugs index lost an important support level at around 460.  Here is the chart of silver with a heavy commercial net short position from NFTRH 215, dated 12.2.12:

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As for the HUI, NFTRH 215 also noted this on 12.2.12: Continue reading "Precious Metals: Risk Management to Opportunity" →