Investing

Like virtual reality, there are 10 other emerging technologies that are finally ready for prime time. Some, like the recent advances in artificial intelligence, have been decades in the making. Others, such as the blockchain, are relatively new phenomenons that are also ready for their time in the spotlight. here they are in today's infographic.

The gold miners-to-gold ratios are indicators that show how many gold ounces are required to purchase one share of an index. Technically, the numbers are the value of the index divided by the price of gold. They show a relative value of miners to the price of bullion, thus indicating whether gold stocks or gold are overvalued or undervalued relative to each other. When the ratios are low, miners are cheap compared to gold, and when the numbers are high, gold stocks look expensive relative to bullion. Let’s examine a chart to see what it says is the situation these days.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has come up with a master plan for ramping up car production which, if achieved, could cause lithium stocks to skyrocket. Below are descriptions of 5 such companies that could become supercharged as a result.

There are many ways to gain exposure to movements in the price of gold - bullion (bars or coins), gold futures, shares in gold exchange-traded funds, jewelry, certificates, pool accounts, options, structured products, etc., but today we will focus on gold stocks, i.e. shares in gold mining companies.

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have historically been stable, income-producing investments. In the small-cap REIT space, investors might want to take a look at these financially sound REITs that should develop into income-yielding machines.

Finding your bearings in the various cycles for stocks, real estate, commodities, and macroeconomics is critical to investing. This article describes the 3 cycles that influence the precious metal markets...and a gold trader who doesn’t follow the gold cycles is akin to a carpenter that doesn’t use a level.

Everyone seems to think that gold, silver, platinum, palladium and related miners are all on a moonshot now and will triple, quadruple and more — all without ever looking back - but all that does is convince me why 90% of investors almost always lose money in the markets. They act like herds, chasing the latest trend. They buy the highs and bail out at the lows, in herds.

The Western gold community needs to let go of all bad past memories, grab this exciting gold stocks bull by the horns, and enjoy the ride!

The stock market huffed, and it puffed, and finally made it over the hump, with the large-cap S&P 500 Index (414 days) and Dow Jones Industrial Average both vaulting to new all-time highs. It’s worth revisiting the details of this bullish buy signal to see what could be in store for the stock market in the months ahead.

If you don’t understand stock warrants, you are not alone. Very few of the professional newsletter writers and analysts understand them so why should you? Allow me to give you a brief education on stock warrants in the following paragraphs and tell you exactly why you need this information.