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Tuesday Edition: December 9, 2025

COT Gold, Silver & USDX Report - December 9, 2025

PLEASE NOTE: Positions as of NOVEMBER 4, 2025

Trump’s War on Venezuela

In sum, what Murray is saying is that a just war must be defensive; a nation must be trying to stop an invasion. And even in a defensive war, you must follow certain restraints.

Iranians Turning to Gold as Inflation Runs Rampant

Iranians are turning to gold as sanctions and government policy destroy their currency.

Palladium Ready for Next Big Upleg and a Way to Capitalize on It...

The palladium charts provide further evidence that the metals are now advancing across a broad front – and why shouldn’t they, given that the dollar and interest rates are set to drop...

BRICS Move Forward 40% Gold-Backed 'Unit' Proposal

It’s a proposal that would essentially allow BRICS nations to conduct trade while having a gold and BRICS currency-backed payment basket to settle imbalances.

Gold SWOT: Silver Reached a Record High Last Week

The best performing precious metal for the past week was silver, up about 3.6%. The metal has gained nearly 22% in the past month, previously hitting $50 an ounce in 1980 and 2011. 

Silver Continue to Gain on Gold, Overall

Ira Epstein discusses the current state of the metals market, noting that metals were lower during the day but showing slight recovery in the evening.

Monday Edition: December 8, 2025

Black Mammoth Metals Finds Large Chargeability Anomaly Underlying the Historic Workings and Stakes Claims at Amador Silver Property, NV

The IP Survey has delineated a large high-chargeability anomaly, with high-resistivity extending at least 1.22 km along the range-front and under the historic Amador mine workings...

Strong Black Friday Sales Sucked Into the Debt Black Hole

According to data parsed by Mastercard, approximately 87.3 million Americans shopped online, and 81.7 million visited physical stores.

Update: Tracking The Silver Bull Market, Key Channels and Fractals

Silver has recently emerged from a bottoming pattern that began around 2014, when it broke down below the channel. That bottoming pattern is very similar to the one in the early 2000s...

USD, Oil, & Gold: Key Wave Counts

Within wave (iv) we completed wave -a- at the 3886.50 low and it now looks like wave -b- is still underway, although it could now be complete at the 4265.70 high.

Asian Funds Dominate as ETFs Add Gold for Sixth Straight Month

Gold ETFs globally reported net inflows of gold for the sixth straight month, driven by a strong surge in Asian investment.

Technical Scoop: Job Surprise, Yield Rise, Silver High

The gold rally of 2025 was put on pause this past week. Overall, gold fell a small 0.5% while silver continued its big run, up 3.5% to new all-time highs.

Markets Now Starting to Setup for FOMC Meeting

Ira Epstein discusses the current state of the metals market, focusing on gold and silver, while also touching on the broader economic context influenced by the Federal Reserve's anticipated interest rate cut.

Sunday Edition: December 7, 2025

$42 Gold

Doug Hornig: Other central banks would follow the U.S. lead and stockpile more gold. (They’ve been buying a lot in recent years, so perhaps they already know something we don’t.)

Gold Sinks Slightly as Silver Skirts Sixty

Indeed “the better buy” has been Sweet Sister Silver, coming Friday within a hair’s breadth of touching the 60.00 milestone

BIS gold swaps fall from 54 tonnes in Oct. to 39 in Nov.

Nevertheless, the BIS has a well-placed confidence that no mainstream financial news organization will ever ask it to explain the purposes of the swaps and to identify the parties to them, lest gold cease being the immensely powerful secret knowledge of the financial universe. 

The Price of Trust Is Rising

In a world where shocks and surprises are increasingly the norm, gold’s capacity to provide diversification and downside protection remains as relevant as ever. That is not a slogan. It is just an old lesson..

Red Hot Juniors Lead A Golden Parade

Technical stock chart updates: $APGOF, $TQQQ, $NUGT, $FCX, $HL, $GDX and more

Poverty Level Discourse

I don’t think it’s just me. We are all getting overwhelmed with information and seemingly important news. What will the Fed do? Is Trump going to invade Venezuela? What about Israel? Ukraine? Is the economy...

Friday Edition: December 5, 2025

COT Gold, Silver & USDX Report - December 5, 2025

PLEASE NOTE: Positions as of OCTOBER 28, 2025

Gold’s Futures Plot Twist

Now with those delayed CoT reports slowly trickling out, gold’s narrative is being rewritten. This stunning revelation really ups the odds for another gold high consolidation.

Is Silver Set Up to Crash Like 1980 and 2011?

When gold bounced off $2,100 twice in a matter of weeks, a lot of experts declared it a double top and false breakout. As Hemke pointed out, these experts were proven wrong.

Economic Decline Continues Relentlessly

As tariffs have flashed on and off and higher and lower, businesses have been saying constantly that this is creating uncertainty that makes intelligent planning next to impossible.

Silver at $59?: Market Mechanics, Physical Strain, and the Rumours Nobody Can Ignore

Gold and silver are a little softer on normal profit taking after a strong run. That is not unusual, particularly in silver, where rallies tend to be sharp...

Reality Doesn't Matter. Just Enjoy the Poppies

For the 3rd month this year, private payrolls didn’t just fall short of delivering the job gains needed to keep the economy steady with population growth, but reduced the number of jobs.

India to Allow Silver as Loan Collateral (Just Like Money Metals!)

A surge in Indian demand helped drive the gold rally in October that pushed the price to record levels above $50 an ounce.

Gold and Copper Remain Strongest Metals

Ira Epstein covers upcoming economic data releases, including personal income and spending reports, the PCE price index, and the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment indices.

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