Recent Posts Tagged With 'gold'

• Lightening up on Gold

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 16:25 in gold, gold trade, financial spread betting

  Closed out the gold trade today at $1,103 for a $33 move, caught out slightly by the rebound today after the strong move up in the US Dollar yesterday – which didn’t follow through, yet perhaps. So a good trade but not that satisfying tho...

• Gold new high

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 16:10 in gold, financial spread betting

  Reporting gold making a new high today, long from 1070 today.  More central banks from emerging economies increasing share of reserves held as gold. Also, note, interesting action in DX today and although stock market is oversold short term gold oft...

• Gold reset

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 14:33 in gold, spread trading, financial spread betting

    A chart that shows that effectively, the appreciation in Gold price since the start of the decade has been reset via the creation of increased monetary base. ...

• Gold unfolds

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 16:41 in gold, gold stocks, spreadtraderpro.com, 000 breakout, gold $1

  This is truly a lovely looking chart to a technical trader like myself.  Notable features are the supportive 50day moving average since 2005, breakouts at about $460, $730 – slightly rebuffed at the $850 area (old 1980 high resistance) then on...

• Don’t mention the ‘D’ word

  Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 17:05 in gold, spread betting, general commodities, general stocks

  Some markets have been ramping up quite nicely for some time, stock indices, commodity currencies included.  Theres been a nice bounce in stocks and it may well continue, but by historic measures it is reaching an extended point. The S&P put/cal...

• System trading 2009

  Posted on Thursday January 22nd, 2009 at 16:05 in gold, commodity trading, commodities bull market, commodities investing, spread betting commodities, make me a trader

  I am less sure on how to trade the current commodity environment, thinking the complex will probably rise from here, looking at the composite agricultural commodities $DJASO, things are looking up. Gold is looking like it faces resistance at $875 and...

• Short term gold picture

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 14:23 in gold, gold stocks, gold price, commodities investing, gold 2009, trading commodities in 2009, my sipp portfolio, leveraged oil etf

  Newmont, the Gold ETF (GLD) and gold itself have completed rally’s and (potentially) bearish pennants on the weekly charts. Gold may face selling pressure in the short term as price meets overhead resistance. Also there are a couple of contr...

• Gold/silver

  Posted on Saturday October 18th, 2008 at 11:22 in gold, general commodities

  Thinking more downside maybe gold below $650 and silver around $7.50.       ...

• Friday roundup

  Posted on Friday February 22nd, 2008 at 17:35 in gold, gold stocks, nem, general commodities, account review, gold stock trading

  Yesterday saw the March rollover for Coffee (Arabica) on finspreads.com - the trade was set to ‘autorollover’ so the profit was banked on my open coffee trades of £1,299 and new trades opened in the May coffee (still 7pp). Up to 162,00 ...

• Solid Gold

  Posted on Saturday February 2nd, 2008 at 17:13 in gold, Trading, spread betting blog, general commodities, gold speculating, gold trading

  Spread betting blog - Here is a chart of how my new ‘two swords’ (or two ema’s more like) method worked over the last few years. It caught all this ride up and handled the whipsaws without too much loss. Using a weekly ema approach....