Indicators that Holmes watches to read the market's pulse, and why a +/- 35% move for gold doesn't keep him awake at night.

Fund Manager Adrian Day has a ready answer for investors wondering why the gold price has been so depressed. It is the strength of the dollar. In this interview, Day focuses on 10 companies that can remain stable at almost any price.

A recent GFMS/Thomson Reuters Silver Institute World Silver Survey shows that while the price of silver dropped 23.6% in the last year, there was actually an increase in demand, particularly from China and India.

Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index stocks to find the stocks with good technical indicators and upward momentum. As always I used the Flipchart feature to review the charts.

Downward manipulation of gold and silver is real, declares Jason Hamlin, but the longer it continues, the higher prices will go when the free market reasserts itself.

At worst the bull market is ending, but the favored plan is for a significant – possibly scary – drop that refuels the bull for one more thrust.