Commodity Trading & Trend Following

I would say I would like to be the “Realist”. As a trend following commodity trading advisor I am not one to make predictions. Everything that I have ever learned about trading is follow my system make low risk bets and look to manage risk.
I nor anyone know the future but regarding the US [...]

The question is are you the last one now to be buying gold? The list of successful Hedge fund managers who have been buying gold has been growing. It is not just hedge funds…how about China. What I find interesting is the fact that the hedge fund managers who successfully called the housing crisis are [...]

Are you ready for the latest from Jim Rogers Mr/Ms Forex trader? Jim Rogers believes the US dollar’s rally is finishing and will cause a currency crisis. Isn’t this just a wonderful way to start your day especially if you are holding US Dollars. However if you are a forex trader this could be music [...]

One guess who has been buying gold bullion since 2003? This has not been for gold charms or gold necklaces.China has purchased approximately 454 “TONS”. Could this be one of the reasons gold prices have soared since then? China’s track record of investments has been poor of lately as one can look how they purchased BlackStone.

Gold almost took off past the $1,000 dollar range and now currently $879. This last weeks soft CPI & PPI reports show currently that we are in a deflationary period and that inflation will not be a concern in the near term. However with that said, Copper, Zinc and even Nickel are starting to move up …actually rapidly. Just Gold and Silver are in a down trend ( depending on your time frame).

One reads the papers and all are claiming Inflation is non existent. Well, maybe for the short run it might be. Looking back at the Great Depression of 1929 there are many similarities and inflation could rise it’s ugly head.
In the midst of the Great Depression there was a strong upward trend in commodity prices [...]

As GM Goes, So Goes The Nation famous remark by Charles Wilson is as appropriate now as it was in 1953. Charles Wilson declared before Congress that what was good for the country was good for GM and vice versa. Does Gm’s rise to power and decline towards insolvency parallel the rise and fall of the US? GM’s market cap reached approx $50 billion in 2000. Currently its market capitalization dropped below $1 billion to levels last seen during the 1920’s.

The FED and the TARP program has lent or guaranteed almost $12.8 trillion if you add it all up. Putting this into perspective this massive sum is virtually approaching the total GDP or everything produced in the US last year. The nationג€™s gross domestic product was $14.2 trillion in 2008.

Hopefully more than political back standing will be accomplished at next weeks upcoming G20 Summit.The issues could not be more serious when the world’s most powerful leaders meet in London next week. Millions of jobs have already vanished and millions more could go as the global economy faces its biggest downturn since the Great Depression. Fear has gripped virtually everyone country and every citizen of the planet. If the summit is not successful then obviously there will be a greater sense of drift and crisis.
Yet there those, whose great hope that the summit will bring of the beginning of the end of the crisis as well hope that the world leaders were able to galvanize a new direction and a new authority.

Pretty strong words were used by the prime minister of the Czech Republic,Mirek Topolanek regarding Obama’s economic plans. Mr. Topolanek holds the EU’s six-month rotating presidency. He believes that the European Union governments must avoid the type of spending ( $2 Trillion dollars) to get out of the current recession ( Depression?). His views were not widely accepted by his colleagues. Is it that Mr. Topolanek is just going through a rough time personally since he was ousted by his own parliament after a losing a no confidence vote on Tuesday?