I’ve been calling gold up for some time now and it looks likely that it will hit $3,000 soon enough. Overall, gold not only looks bullish, the whole setup of increasing global tension seems ...

Over the past week precious metal investors have had a wakeup call from their big shiny nest eggs. Last week's free fall in both gold and silver spot prices was enough to get investors into a panic.

Across gold, silver, and platinum, the same technical structure is playing out simultaneously: price is pressing against a down-sloping trend line that has defined each chart's ceiling for months.

There's been a lot of chatter around gold lately—and much of it hasn't been bullish. That's largely because gold (and, as a result, the GLD Gold ETF ) has failed to reclaim its April highs. But let's ...

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