Today's Video Update: Apple files for the iWatch trademark in Japan

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, President of INO.com and Co-creator of MarketClub, with your mid-day market update for Monday, the 1st of July.

Apple Files For a iWatch Trademark in Japan!
Shares of Apple jumped almost 4% on news that it had filed for a trademark in Japan. This is the best upside performance for Apple in over a week. Apple inturn is helping the NASDAQ gain for the day as well as helping the other indices.

The Strong Trend For Crude Oil Persists
Crude oil moved to its best levels in eight days and it appears poised to challenge the $99 a barrel level. Should this market move over that resistance point I can easily see this market quickly move to the $100 a barrel level. Continue reading "Today's Video Update: Apple files for the iWatch trademark in Japan" →

Gold Chart of The Week

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Each Week Longleaftrading.com will be providing us a chart of the week as analyzed by a member of their team. We hope that you enjoy and learn from this new feature.

Weekly Gold Report (July 1st through July 5th)

The second quarter of 2013 came to a close with a decent rebound in the US Stock Indexes. A three day up-move was the result of favorable consumer spending, housing, and unemployment numbers. Despite the move up, it was not an easy week to predict market movement, nor was it a week to feel comfortable in a trade for more than a half day. This is because last week’s schedule of economic reports was punctuated daily by FED Members that now have the ability puppeteer global markets with one interview. Even though the FED decided to keep rates unchanged and maintain their Bond buying on a monthly basis (QE), the interviews that followed the decision had the potential to negate the initial response to the rate decision. Last week required the attention of traders each day as one FED Member after the next was asked about their thoughts on whether or not Ben Bernanke and Co. would begin to scale out of QE sooner or later. My opinion is that the scaling back has already begun. Continue reading "Gold Chart of The Week" →

C is for Cash and Catalysts in a Chaotic Market

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The Gold Report: Resource equities have been rejected, beaten up and ignored. Make your case for small- and mid-cap gold stocks.

Jeff Killeen: It's true that investment dollars have been moving out of the resource sector over the last year and gold exploration companies in particular have seen a drastic decline in market value over the last 12 months.

However, the space cannot be ignored. These commodity sectors are cyclical and putting investment dollars to work strategically in the space when equities are at such low valuations makes sense, but patience is required.

"My recommendation is that investors focus on the fundamentals when looking at junior exploration equities."

My recommendation is that investors focus on the fundamentals when looking at junior exploration equities. Does the management team have a proven track record? Does the company's asset or assets have strong grades relative to the proposed extraction method, which can secure healthy margins, even at lower commodity prices? Does the company have balance sheet strength to significantly derisk and advance these projects?

TGR: What gold price are you using in your models? Continue reading "C is for Cash and Catalysts in a Chaotic Market" →

Roger Wiegand Predicts a Brand New World for Gold

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The Gold Report: In early 2012, Roger, you predicted that the price of gold would rise to over $2,000/ounce ($2,000/oz) during the year. But as the overall stock market increased in value, the yellow metal went in the opposite direction. What happened?

Roger Wiegand: Two things happened. First, the last gold peak almost made it. It went to $1,923/oz, and that was a technical and fundamental top. Then it sold down. The other thing that happened is that the U.S. Treasury intentionally sold gold to protect the stock and bond markets. Treasury feared that if gold ran up too high too quickly, people would dump securities en masse.

We are in the seasonal cycle when many markets go sideways. We have seen the selloff at the end of last week. A triple bottom is extremely bullish. The snap back in the price going long could be impressive.

TGR: What factors are keeping gold down in the near term? Continue reading "Roger Wiegand Predicts a Brand New World for Gold" →

Weekly Futures Recap W/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.

Grain Futures--- The grain market sold off sharply in the new crop grains with November soybeans down $.24 at 12.51 a bushel hitting new 4 week lows as outstanding weather in the Midwest is pressuring prices with the USDA crop report coming out stating that this is the 3rd highest acreage in history at 76.1 million acres up 1% from last year and as I’ve been recommending in many previous blogs to continue to sell the soybeans I do believe prices are headed sharply lower from these levels. Soybean prices in the November contract are trading below their 20 and 100 day moving average settling right at session lows this Friday afternoon in Chicago and I do believe you will see further weakness next week as generally the Fourth of July weekend is the top in the grain market. July soybeans hit a new contract high of 15.74 finishing up about $.16 as the spread between old crop and new crop hit a new high today as supplies are very small in the July contract and could be very large in the November contract in a couple of months. Continue reading "Weekly Futures Recap W/Mike Seery" →