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Gold miner batch has had a gloomy 2012; a Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF has plummeted over 24 percent in a final 3 months. Bullion prices fell next $1,600 an unit Tuesday amid uninformed concerns of a euro section debt crisis. “Absent new financial stimulus, bullion doesn’t make sense. When people are aroused of a fiat currencies eroding their wealth, that’s when bullion catches a bid,” pronounced Jeffrey Sherman, line portfolio manager during DoubleLine Capital. Five Star Equities examines a opinion for companies in a Gold Industry and provides equity investigate on Kinross Gold Corporation (KGC) (K.TO) and Jaguar Mining Inc. (JAG).

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Political uncertainties in Greece and a care change in France means prices for line opposite a house to penetrate Tuesday. Gold, that investors customarily demeanour to as a protected breakwater during times of domestic and financial crisis, fell neatly as investors began to doubt either Europe would come by with a appropriation indispensable to bail out a economy. Analysts envision that bullion prices could slip even serve as there is small support underneath a $1,600 an unit levels. “The fact that support has been damaged on a daily, weekly and monthly time support suggests that this selloff could get worse,” pronounced Adam Sarhan, CEO of investment investigate and consultant Sarhan Capital.

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Kinross Gold Corporation recently announced a formula for a initial entertain finished Mar 31, 2012. The company’s bullion prolongation decreased 6 percent over initial entertain 2011, though revenues increasing 11 percent. “Our operations continue to beget clever revenue, money upsurge and earnings. While prolongation was reduce and costs were aloft than Q4 2011, formed on a annual plan, prolongation for any of a remaining buliding of 2012 is approaching to surpass Q1. We design to be within a previously-stated full-year superintendence for prolongation and costs,” Tye Burt, President and CEO, pronounced in a company’s gain release.

Jaguar is a youth bullion writer in Brazil with operations in a inclusive greenstone belt in a state of Minas Gerais and is building a Gurupi Project in Northern Brazil in a state of Maranhão. The association recently announced a doing of a extensive restructuring and turnaround devise to urge costs and potency during a operations in a state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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Sat May 12, 2012 5:56pm IST

MILAN (Reuters) – Gold prices are set for a 12th uninterrupted year of gains notwithstanding volatility, with financier direct approaching to be spurred by maturation euro section emperor debt crisis, a comparison executive of a World Gold Council (WGC) pronounced on Thursday.

“We trust this will be a 12th year of a longhorn run by a finish of this year,” Marcus Grubb, handling executive for investment during a industry-funded WGC, told a news briefing.

Gold has a tighten disastrous association with a dollar, whose

strength creates line labelled in a U.S. section some-more costly for holders of other currencies and curbs gold’s interest as an choice asset.

While bullion has outperformed a euro so distant this year – a singular banking is down 3 percent contra a euro, while bullion is adult 1.5 percent – a dollar’s strength is weighing heavily on prices.

As a euro section predicament unfolds, with shocks such as Greece dropping out of a common banking section on a cards, investors are approaching to rediscover a protected breakwater value of gold, Grubb said.

“From an altogether macro impending … we consider that there is a high odds that Greece might leave a euro and we trust a euro will not tarry in a stream structure,” Grubb told Reuters after a news conference.

Worries about a euro section debt helped expostulate bullion prices to a record high final year.

European executive banks that together possess about 10,000 tonnes of bullion pot were doubtful to sell their bullion or use it as material to bail out any nation since of authorised commitments, risks of such operations and a comparatively tiny volume of bullion pot compared to a debt pile, Grubb said.

STABLE FIRST QUARTER

Global bullion direct was approaching to be solid in a initial entertain of this year, upheld by investment direct that had equivalent diseased direct from India, a world’s vital bullion trinket consumer, Grubb said.

“The entertain looks like a solid one in terms of demand,” he pronounced though declined to give accurate total forward of a WGC quarterly direct trend news due to be expelled subsequent week.

Gold trinket direct in India was weaker in a initial entertain of 2012 than in a same duration of 2011 and approaching to be resigned this year, strike by a slack of India’s mercantile growth, a array of mercantile tightening measures there over a past few months and a weakening rupee opposite a U.S. dollar that creates bullion some-more costly on a internal market, he said.

That means China, that overtook India in terms of bullion expenditure in a final entertain of 2011 is approaching to be tip altogether consumer in 2012, Grubb said, confirming WGC’s progressing forecast.

Central banks from rising countries continued to be net buyers of bullion “at a good rate” in a initial quarter, while European and U.S. executive banks were not selling, Grubb said.

Gold purchases by executive banks were on lane to strech about 400 tonnes this year as WGC foresee in February, he said.

(Editing by James Jukwey)

The dollar and euro continue to fluctuate on the good and bad news surrounding their respective economies. Sterling is traded less than the dollar and euro but, along with the yen, is still one of the most traded currencies.

The key sterling FX pair is the sterling/dollar market where sterling is currently looking as strong as it has done for some time. The pound has retained the .60+ level and there is strong price support from .5945 all the way up to the .60 level. Investors seem to be holding the faith with the currency for the time being.

For the key euro/dollar market, we have seen a fair few swings throughout 2010 but there is high volume support around .3430/50 and that should support the euro unless the European sovereign debt position gets worse again.

Unfortunately though, a recent CMC Markets report has questioned both Eurozone data and European sovereign debt. “It’s been a turbulent time for currencies and EU ministers have sought to reassure the markets that haircuts on bond holdings will apply only to new debtors and not existing ones” it read.

“This reassurance saw the euro rally despite Eurozone industrial production figures for September missing the target by some way, coming in at -0.9% against an expectation of a 0.3% rise. Also, 2010 Q3 growth figures in the Eurozone, France and Germany have all missed expectations.”

All this leads to very volatile markets which can be exciting to trade, especially when you think about your potential profits. After all, making a profit is seldom a bad thing. However, any spread bettor or CFD trader should understand that they can lose money as well.

Whether you speculate on the FX markets by buying and selling currencies or make use of a more modern investment format such as Contracts for Differences (CFDs), the risks remain and must always been considered.

Nowadays, many investors are turning to financial spread betting. This offers a variety of advantages to both new and experienced investors. As we have mentioned, risks are an inherent part of investing. As with all investments such as trading shares, funds, pensions, housing etc, you can lose money. With spread betting you can lose more than your initial investment.

You should ensure that spread betting matches your investment requirements and familiarise yourself with the risks that are involved. Spread bets do carry a high level of risk to your capital. If necessary, seek independent advice.

The appeal of spread betting though is the wide range of advantages such as:

1) Spread betting offers a large variety of markets that you can trade on which includes the indices, commodities, stocks and shares, and, of course, the FX markets.

2) Investors are able buy or sell financial instruments. As a result, you can speculate on a particular market in the way in which you feel it is going to move. You are not restricted to speculating on an FX market to go up; you can also speculate on it to fall.

3) Because spread betting does not involve the transfer of ownership rights and is purely a bet on the future value of an asset, it isn’t liable to income tax, capital gains tax or stamp duty*.

4) If you are buying and selling currencies then you usually have to pay commissions and/or brokers’ fees. With spread betting, there aren’t any such fees.

If you do trade the FX spread betting markets though, don’t forget that with trading you need to control your greed. Also, if you use smaller stake sizes then this can reduce your level of risk.

* Based on UK tax law. Tax law can be changed or may differ depending on your personal circumstances.

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Gold Silver Stocks Currently Offer Attractive Fundamentals

There unequivocally is usually one large apparatus left in a Federal Reserve’s pack and that’s income supply growth. If we trust that a vital increases in tellurian income reserve will be inflationary, afterwards genuine resources like resources and genuine estate should be a focus.

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Precious steel bonds haven’t achieved well, even nonetheless many gold mining companies are stating record prolongation and earnings; though Mitchell Clark, writer to Profit Confidential, believes that many gold and china bonds are undervalued deliberation their expansion prospects.

The reason, according to Clark, is that mark prices for bullion and silver have pulled behind in price. In Clark’s view, a pullback is partial of a well-deserved correction/consolidation, that he outlines in a article, Gold and Silver Stocks Drifting, But Mining Stock Fundamentals Just Keep Getting Better.

“There unequivocally is usually one large apparatus left in a Federal Reserve’s pack and that’s income supply growth,” says Clark. “If we trust that a vital increases in tellurian income reserve will be inflationary, afterwards genuine resources like resources and genuine estate should be a focus.”

Clark believes that bearing to bullion and china is an comprehensive contingency for any offset investment portfolio. He also believes that precious steel stocks sojourn one of a many appealing batch marketplace sectors for equity speculators.

While Clark doesn’t consider we’re during a bottom yet, if bullion and china mark prices continue to trend reduce this year, he’s assured that a batch marketplace will furnish really appealing new entrance points.

“I’m not overly eager about going prolonged a vital index, since we do feel that a batch marketplace is in a routine of commanding out, this year or next,” says Clark.

“As a group, we consider changed steel bonds will continue to deposit reduce over a entrance months,” says Clark. “We’re not there yet, though a good new entrance indicate will shortly benefaction itself.”

Profit Confidential, that has been published for over a decade now, has been widely famous as presaging 5 vital mercantile events over a past 10 years. In 2002, Profit Confidential started advising a readers to buy gold-related investments when bullion traded underneath $300 an ounce. In 2006, it “begged” a readers to get out of a housing market… before it plunged.

Profit Confidential was among a initial (back in late 2006) to envision that a U.S. economy would be in a retrogression by late 2007. The daily e-letter rightly likely a pile-up in a batch marketplace of 2008 and early 2009. And Profit Confidential incited bullish on bonds in Mar of 2009 and rode a bear marketplace convene from a Dow Jones Industrial Average of 6,440 on Mar 9, 2009, to 12,876 on May 2, 2011, a benefit of 99%.

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I want to start by focusing on the S&P 500 – it’s essentially an index of the 500 largest companies in America. Actually it’s more. Contrary to a popular misconception, the S&P 500 is not a simple list of the largest 500 companies by market capitalization or by revenues.

Rather, it is 500 of the most widely held U.S.-based common stocks, chosen by the S&P Index Committee for market size, liquidity, and sector representation.  “Leading companies in leading industries” is the guiding principal for S&P 500 inclusion. We are starting here to achieve safety and diversity.

If you use the S&P 500 as your investment base you won’t have to worry if the CEO has resigned, the CFO has just been indicted, the stock has missed its forecast or any number of things that make stock prices flagellate unsuspecting investors and traders.

You ask: How can you make money investing on the S&P 500?
Consider its graph, the white, bottom most curve on the chart.  As you can see, the S&P 500 goes up and down similar to stocks and hasn’t done so well over the past 3 years.

Wouldn’t we do better with a mutual fund? [Actually, you're getting warmer.]

According to the Motley Fool, “During the 1990s, the S&P 500 has provided an annualized return of 17.3%, compared with just 13.9% for the average diversified mutual fund.” Over the past 3 years only 10 mutual funds had more than a 12% total return [data through 6/4/2010 from 12,392 funds, Morningstar].  You can see that the S&P 500 has not done well, but you would have actually done worse using mutual funds.

Instead of considering mutual funds I’m going to restrict our consideration to just two ETFs, i.e.,  SSO and SDS.  I said simple; this is simple!

We’re going to invest in SSO when the market is rising and SDS when it’s falling.  Both SSO and SDS are based on the S&P 500. They track its traded index, SPX.  [You have to trade SPX because the S&P 500 is an index that isn't traded.] The SPX is among the most traded equities and is also one of the most liquid.  As an investment it brings diversification.

SSO and SDS are mirrors of each other. Whenever SSO rises the SDS falls, and vice versa. This allows us to trade in rising and falling markets. Simply, pick the correct ETF.

These ETFs have one other unusual property. They move twice the speed of the SPX; they are leveraged 2 to 1. [Proshares has a number of similarly behaving ETFs. They are called Ultra ETFs.]

You said; This would be a safe investment strategy! These are leveraged! Isn’t it safer to invest in sound American stocks?

Rather than give a large list of recently failed stocks, I decided to find if there were any stocks among the current S&P 500 that I would like to have held over the past 3 years. Only 2 emerged, Family Dollar and Autozone. More than 15% of the S&P 500 had more than a 75% draw-down and an additional 35% had losses over 50% at some time during the 3 years. These statistics do not include companies like Enron and Lehman that are no longer included. If they were included these statistics would be much higher.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not much of a stock picker. I want something truly safe. If you are comfortable with your results trading stocks, don’t bother reading further.

What about investing in utilities?

When I began investing, my Dad told me that utilities were always a safe investment. They paid a good dividend that never went down. Their customer base is locked in. Their rates are determined by the states and these always increase. What could be safer?

During the last 3 years, Duke Energy fell over 40% from a high of 20.66 to a low of 12.39. Over the same period, the index of gas utilities had a high of 33.84 and a low of 20.11. Electric utilities fared worse falling from a high of 40.01 to a low of 20.85. Even utilities don’t look safe anymore.

From my point of view, it’s the story of the turtle and the hare. Stocks behave like the hare. You cannot predict in which direction they are going to run.

These two ETFs, SSO and SDS, in comparison are turtles; admittedly turtles with racing stripes. At this point we do not have anything more than a rough plan for investing in the S&P 500. This is not enough to qualify as an investment strategy.

We shall begin to upgrade this plan into a practical trading strategy. First, we need an unbiased indicator to determine on which ETF we should place our money, SSO or SDS. Any day, the majority of pundits on CNBC will tell you the market is going to rise. But on the same day, many of their pundits will provide reasons why it will fall.  So, you cannot rely on them.  Also, the Futures, prior to the Open, seem no more reliable for choosing either SSO or SDS.

After many years of trying, I developed a market timer that combines the market movement of the SPX with market sentiment. I call this the SPXTimer. There are many market timers available. I’ll let you be the judge which to choose.

They are invaluable for making a well guided decision about which ETF to select. Mine gives you three choices. When it’s bullish take SSO; bearish SDS and when it’s neutral stay in cash. What could be simpler?

The red curve, third from the top judging from the right hand side of the chart, shows the results of trading SSO and SDS from 9/12/2007 until 5/5/2010 only using the SPXTimer. ,000 invested on 9/12/2007 grew to ,737. Most investors and funds didn’t do that well over this difficult period.

I think you will agree, these results are not very good in terms of what you would hope to achieve. Look at the yellow oval in the middle the graph. During that interval of time, the investment fell from a high of ,469 down to ,158. That’s a big hit. We would like to sleep well at night; that fall would make sleep very difficult.

Sometimes these ETFs do not move in sync with the market timer. A little patience is required before charging into the market. I added a mild momentum constraint to the strategy to ensure the entry is in sync with the timer. The ETF’s momentum, not necessarily the price, is required to be rising over 2 days. [A service bureau provides me with this information.] Sometimes this constrains delays entry for several days.

The blue curve provides the results of adding this constraint. Here, based solely on the S&P 500, my market timer and an entry constraint, the ,000 investment grew smoothly to 16,525. That’s over 20% per year! There were pull backs, but you could sleep soundly.

I was still concerned with giving back profits. After each big run-up in profit, it seemed there was a comparably big pull back.  Many investment managers recommend adding to a position as it is rising in value. I decided to try subtracting from the position size as the profit rises. If timed properly, this might reduce the amount of profit given back. Plus, it would reduce the risk while adding some of the profit to the bank. To do this, I decided to incorporate the following Money Management with the two strategies that were in place.

Say you started with ,000. The idea is to keep the money at risk between ,000 and ,000 [+/- 10% of the initial investment].

Whenever your equity grows over ,000 sell enough shares to withdraw ,000. This should reduce your money at risk to under ,000. The next time it appreciates over ,000, do it again.

If, on the other hand, the investment falls below ,000 add ,000 worth to the ETF investment.

The results are remarkable. This investment, the yellow, top-most curve, grew to ,780. That’s close to 30% annually; not bad for a turtle! The chart doesn’t show this statistic, but 75% of these trades were winners.

I repeated this test on three more broad based indexes: the Nasdaq 100, S&P Mid-Cap 400 and the Russell 2000 changing only the two ETFs. Each did better. The statistics of these investments, starting on 9/12/2007 with ,000 and ending on 5/5/2010, are shown in the table below. All data is based on back-testing, not actual trades.

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Broad Based . . . . . . . . . ETF . . . . . . . . . % Winning . . . . . . . . Amount on . . . . . . Annual Rate

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pair . . . . . . . . . Trades . . . . . . . . . . . 5/5/2010 . . . . . . . . of Return

S&P 500 . . . . . . . . . . SSO / SDS . . . . . . 75.00%. . . . . . . . . ,780 . . . . . . . . . . 29.93%

Nasdaq 100 . . . . . . . QLD / QID . . . . . . . 77.50% . . . . . . . . ,030 . . . . . . . . . . 34.96%

S&P Mid-Cap 400  . . MVV / MZZ . . . . . . . 80.00% . . . . . . . . ,546 . . . . . . . . . . 39.52%

Russell  2000 . . . . . UWM / TWM . . . . . . 84.88% . . . . . . . . ,558. . . . . . . . . . . 40.52%

 

The basic plan: buy one of these ETFs when bullish and the inverse ETF when bearish, or stay out of the market in cash, is as simple as it can get. The SPXTimer brings order and safety to the investment because you know whether to buy the bullish ETF or the bearish ETF. The entry condition, combined with this money management strategy, will improve your investment results beyond what you might hope to achieve with stocks or mutual funds – with much less risk.  Now isn’t that what you wanted all along?

Footnote
You may be wondering about the choice of dates; particularly since on 5/6/2010 the Dow fell over 1000 points in less than a half hour. Many of these ETFs were first introduced in 2006 and 2007. As a result, data was not collected for the SPXTimer prior to mid 2007. The start date was the first change to a bullish signal. On 5/5/2010 the timer signaled to close all bullish positions. Prices in the table reflect the Open of 5/6/2010.

SPXTimer.com provides comprehensive support to its members through its newsletter and blogs.  It offers guidance with market timing and money management.  Two services are available.  The Gold level is coach potato simple for trading ETFs.  The Platinum is more involved for those who want to trade stocks as well.  Visit SPXTimer.com for videos detailing our simple, winning investment strategies.

Jay A. Leavitt, PhD – About the Author:

For the past few years I have served as an analyst to a hedge fund.  I’m also a popular speaker at a local investment club. Generally, my presentations relate to money management.  As an analyst I have developed market timers and evaluated various money management ideas.  In addition, I have created multiple trading strategies.

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