ETFS

The middle of the winter season The futures market is oversold Sellers lurking above in natural gas It has been nothing short of a winter of discontent for the bulls in the natural gas futures market. As the withdrawal season approached in early November, the uncertainty of the average temperatures during the winter season caused

Oil drops as the US-Iran hostilities de-escalate The Brent premium rises while the price falls A location, quality, and political risk spread Volatility in the crude oil futures arena increased significantly over the first days of 2020. The attack that killed the leader of Iran’s revolutionary guard increased the political temperature in the Middle East.

It’s been an uneventful start to the year for silver (SLV), under-performing the majority of asset classes, despite Middle East tensions that many thought might ignite a fire under the metal. While gold (GLD) has already broken out of its multi-year base, silver continues to build out its base but will need to tack on

The market expected a 100 bcf withdrawal Ten weeks left until the 2020 injection season The price sits at a low level   After falling to a low of $2.083 per MMBtu on the nearby February NYMEX futures contract on January 3, the price of natural gas has been crawling higher. The price reached its

This is a big deal. After all, one of the US Federal Reserve’s two major goals is to maintain the inflation rate near 2%.  Because, you know, high inflation is bad. If the inflation rate went up to 4, 5, or 6%, suddenly a lot of people would find themselves in the poor house.  Basically inflation

GW Pharmaceuticals PLC (GWPH) stocks rallied this week after the company released preliminary Q4 results that exceeded forecasts. The driving force behind the GWPH’s performance came from better-than-expected sales of the company’s flagship product Epidiolex, the cannabidiol (CBD)-based drug used to treat epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes.  Thus far, Epidiolex is the only CBD-based pharmaceutical

It’s been a tough week for investors in the metals market, with the prevailing sentiment flipping from excitement to check the morning prices following Middle East tensions to disgust almost overnight. While silver (SLV) prices briefly challenged stiff resistance at the $18.45/oz level during overnight trading, this move has been completely erased since, with prices

And they sure do.  Here’s a very simple 3-month chart of SLV, the unleveraged US silver ETF that trades on US markets. (credit Fidelity.com) If we look at the relationship between the US Dollar index UUP (blue line) and SLV (the candlesticks), we can see that most of the time they trade in “good inverse relation” to each

Yesterday Aphria (APHA) announced weaker-than-expected fiscal Q2 results that caused the stock to dip, but didn’t exactly send shockwaves across the cannabis sector. By now, many investors have become hardened to the reality that publicly-traded cannabis companies may continue to fall short of their revenue targets for the unforeseen future.    The Canadian pot company reported

It’s been a frustrating couple of weeks for investors in the gold miners (GDX), with the index barely making any progress despite gold rocketing higher on Middle East tensions. While this significant underperformance to start 2020 has likely discouraged investors, the key is that investors don’t miss the forest for the trees. The Gold Miners

The price rises on the back of Iran and then falls on an immediate de-escalation Open interest moves higher with the price- A bullish sign Fasten your seatbelts as oil will move with tensions in the Middle East   We are only around two weeks into 2020, but the crude oil market has been highly