As we come into the week of Dhanteras and Diwali, and the celebrations that go with that, let us talk about some of the financial decisions we may consider at this time. I heard Swarup Mohanty at Mirae Asset Management say this a few weeks ago: "Dhanteras is the time for our Annual SIP into Gold." It's true and I'd never thought of it that way.

Buying Gold has been a traditional investment for many. But financial markets have developed to the point that we look at buying Gold as a financial decision - complete with its risks, rewards, and top-down analysis.

(I'm not sure if Mr. Mohanty came up with that expression or if I should have credited someone else. I heard it from him. Please forgive any mistakes in this.)

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

There was a lot of movement across asset classes over the last week, but more importantly, the market gave us some key inflection points to trade against.

In this post, we're going to look at Precious Metals and review how we should be approaching them.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

This week we held October’s Monthly Conference Call which our Premium Members can access and rewatch here.

In this post, we’ll provide a summary of the call by highlighting 5 of the most important charts/topics we covered along with commentary on each.

Let’s dive into it.

This is the video recording of our October 2, 2020 Monthly Charts Live Strategy Session

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Last night we held September's Monthly Conference Call which our Premium Members can access and rewatch here.

In this post, we'll provide a summary of the call by highlighting 5 of the most important charts we covered along with commentary on each.

Let's dive into it.

This is the video recording of the September 2020 Conference Call.

Gold made new all-time highs this summer. That was pretty cool. Hadn't seen that in almost a decade.

Some people always like buying gold. They joined some secret society once where they convinced themselves it was part of a "diversified portfolio". I don't know what kind of strategy that is, but it was a really shitty one for a long time.

That all changed earlier this year when Gold Miners $GDX finally broke out above 31, which had been our key levels for years. And the metal itself broke out above 1580 or so which had been our equivalent level there.

Our initial price targets were hit last month so I called Sean over on our Options desk and he suggested an easy strategy to bet on a pause in this uptrend: When The Ducks Are Quakin' (Gold Bugs), We Feed Them!

Our profit targets were hit today in this volatility fade in Gold.

You can learn more about All Star Options...

This is the video recording of the August 2020 Conference Call.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week's Mystery Chart. Most of you either wanted to buy or do nothing and wait for more information.

The chart was the iShares Global Silver Miners ETF $SLVP. We're bullish metals so we agree and want to be buying this over the long-term as well.

With that said, we want to be cautious at current levels for reasons we'll outline in this post. First, let's look at the updated chart.

Premium Members can access all of July Monthly Candles in our Chartbook, but in this post, we want to outline a few of the ones that stood out to us across the Equity, Currency, and Commodities space.

This is the video recording of our August 4th 2020 Monthly Charts Live Strategy Session

Welcome to my new Monthly show that I'm doing with my friend Josh Brown. He is one of the most widely followed Financial Advisors in the country, and someone who I've been arguing with about markets for the better part of 2 decades.

Every month I'll bring a handful of the the most important Monthly charts that stood out during my review. In our first episode, I wanted to discuss the S&P500 making new all-time highs, Transports leading the way in July, Rates hitting new all-time lows and Bitcoin starting a new breakout.

This is the chart that I think tells the July story best. The further to the left the asset is, the closer it is to a new a 52 week high. The higher up the asset, the better its performance in July. Notice Transports in the upper right: Relative weakness overall, BUT the best performer this month, followed by Emerging Markets, Gold and base metals. The lonely US Dollar down below stands out doesn't it?