QUESTION: You said gold trades in bursts? This seems to explain the nonlinear patterns you speak of. Is this correct? ANSWER: All commodities, including gold, trade substantially different than stocks or real estate, which is the slowest moving asset of all until the final 2 years. Pictured here is wheat back to 1200. Note […]

QUESTION: “… can you please comment on how an equity like IBM has “STRONG” , in dark green for the weekly….And has “MOVING HIGHER” in Lt Red for the monthly?” ANSWER: With GMW you must understand that this is dissecting every market according to time. You can have a market that is bullish daily and weekly […]

COMMENT:  Martin, Thank you for the laugh over your consoling words of “Cheer-up! We have a front row seat” in your bleak piece entitled, “The Elections for 2014 Are All About Creating a Dictatorship”. Talk about gallows humor! It reminded me of the story of a shopkeeper who had his store front damaged in a […]

The European Banking Crisis is getting much worse and the whole structure is crumbling to dust. The banks cannot save themselves. The entire crisis is all about the structural design of the Euro, which the politicians will not address. They failed to create a single national debt and in so doing, the banks then used […]

The commodity hedge funds are simply collapsing. This is one reason why you will also see the low in gold unfold. With all the ranting, screaming, claims of hyperinflation, threats of investigations, and prognostications that the dollar will end, not only has gold declined, but the appetite for investing in commodities in general. Clive Capital, […]

QUESTION: “Mr. Armstrong: I am surprised there has been no discussion about the  recent weather pattern and storms throughout the country.  Your prediction of severe storms in the fall based on May being the  coldest in recent history was right on.” Best Regards, R C ANSWER: We will be trying to incorporate another forecasting service […]

QUESTION: Some analysts “expect that the u.s. treasury will keep interest rates low for many years. they quote japan`s so-called “lost decade” as a precendant and appear to expect that such artificial supression will in fact work ( obviously against what you consider “market forces”). which poses the question: does japan`s “lost decade” conform to the ECM […]

It is time we stop taking Prozac to make it appear normal. The more things change, the more they very much remain the same. There are trends that exist in everything. There have been discoveries such as the Cocaine Mummies of Egypt that demonstrate the history of humankind has been created within prejudices that bind our […]

COMMENT: Hello Mr. Armstrong, I’m a mechanical engineer and Trader by profession who grew up in Germany. About three years ago I stumbled across your story and since then I read every article from your website. Thank you very much for your continuous work to open the eyes of people! As I grow older (40 now) […]

China continues to shift from Public to Private debt investment. In July, they were buying mortgage-backed securities while selling US government debt. They are moving away from the Public and into the Private debt markets. China understands cycles – the West does not. http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/node/64579