An early stab Participating in the markets is full of conflicts. This is due to the fact of the high variability of the market which has as such many choices and many moving parts. In this week´s case we have [...]
Silver shining in 2020 Why might this be a good year for silver? Let us look at some silver fundamentals and some general factors that influence the price of silver: 1. A wide range of industries have an ever-increasing demand [...]
Time exits: exposure is risk In our last chartbook we pointed out reasons for our very active participation in the precious metal sector at this time. We wanted to underline, that our approach has nothing to do with pyramiding. Avoiding [...]
Aggressive participation, why? As much as we use a technical analysis dominated approach toward the markets, it would be foolish to not have those views guided by fundamentals. It is at this point in time a true confluence point of [...]
Bitcoin - Correction Soon To Be Over Bitcoin is in a correction since late June. Prices below US$8,000 have been anticipated and are now reality. So far, the fourth quarter has not (yet) brought any larger recovery. Instead the downtrend [...]
Overbought and oversold Learning to master the markets is like drinking from a fire hose. This does not change, no matter at what stage of the game you are. The vastness of possibilities and the challenges of psychology are endless. [...]
Risk less - trade more Once a speculator has an established edge he/she has two ways of increasing profitability. Frequency = exposing the edge more often. Size = trade larger. It depends on ones psychology, ones system and many more [...]
Sentiment, silence and lies We spoke in our last silver chartbook about how to take a contrarian position. As well we explained how to bet against consensus. Sentiment is one aspect supporting a contrarian trader. This is obviously necessary to [...]
Betting against consensus Mother Theresa was once asked, if she'd be joining a demonstration against war. She refused and stated, that she gladly would follow a rally that would be for peace. This based on the underlying principle, that being [...]
Principles - solutions to any problem You will find the word principles being used often in our publications. This is based on the phenomenon of market speculation to be counter intuitive. We can solve most problems by relying on our [...]
