Strategies

The gold-platinum ratio (GPR) has had a significantly better track record than most other indicators in forecasting the stock market’s 12-month direction so what does that say about the future of the stock market?

Beating the S&P 500 is so difficult that the index outperforms most active money managers but Warren Buffett has consistently done so. Over the last 30 years BRK.A has had an average annualized total return of 14.9%, while the S&P 500 has returned 9.4%.

Despite continued market worries about a global economic slowdown and potential recession, investor sentiment appears exceptionally healthy at the moment.

In 11 of 13 rate cut cycles over the past 65 years gold stocks have enjoyed tremendous gains. The historical data shows an average gain of over 170% and median gain of almost 150% and the market is 84% convinced that the Fed will announce a rate cut in September. That would trigger a strong run into year end.

The stock market can be a tough place to make money. With millions of investors trying their luck, it is critical that the informed investor is putting in the time to study, evaluate and assess the fundamental factors affecting stock prices. The valuation model is one of the most critical frameworks for determining the price of a stock. However, there are multiple yardsticks to consider for valuing a stock. Here’s a list of 7 of the most popular.

If you want any chance of success, you need to know what to do and you also MUST know what to steer clear of. This article shares 13 mistakes traders need to avoid like the plague. Learn them and stay away from them!

This article offers 8 suggestions on how to make investing a little easier. Most of the concepts are hardly new but bear repeating because they have proven to be VERY important in my experience.

The 7 immutable (i.e. not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature) laws of investing and how they apply to gold/silver and debt-ridden fiat currencies are:

The S&P GSCI – which tracks prices for 24 commonly traded commodities relative to the S&P 500 - is the most important chart in the resource space today and it's telling us that commodities are primed for their biggest rally of the last 50 years.

Some market participants may be looking to heed the advice of the old market proverb "Sell in May and Go Away". The question this article seeks to answer is whether this calendar effect is spurious, or whether this is something readers should heed.