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Category: Commodities

Stop Buying Physical Gold! Here’s Why Gold ETFs are Superior

This is an excerpt from the video episode of Stop Buying Physical Gold! Here’s Why Gold ETFs are the Better Choice on ETFguide TV. Hey…

Ronald Delegge November 4, 2020

ETF Battles: GLD vs. GDX, who wins?

This is an excerpt from ETF Battles on ETFguide TV between GLD vs. GDX – two of the most popular gold ETFs by assets and…

Ronald Delegge May 27, 2020

What’s Ahead for the Oil and Metals Markets?

The energy market has seen some record breaking moves in 2020.  Never mind how the May 2020 crude oil contract went $37 negative, the magnitude…

Ronald Delegge April 27, 2020

3 Diversification Errors

Portfolio diversification is an investment strategy designed to limit risk by spreading money across multiple asset classes and securities. Most financial literature along with your…

Ronald Delegge May 30, 2017

5 Building Blocks for Your Investment Portfolio

The difference between well-built and poorly designed buildings can be strikingly drastic. Take for example, I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American architect, who is a legend in…

Ronald Delegge May 19, 2017

Factors that Should Influence Your Investments

If you asked a thousand different people about the key factors that should drive their investment choices, you’re bound to get a thousand different answers.…

Ronald Delegge December 23, 2016

Your Investment Portfolio’s Missing Piece

The framework for an architecturally sound investment plan is to have a core portfolio built upon core asset classes. Like the foundation of a building,…

Ronald Delegge August 12, 2016
Financial Markets 2.0 Image

Should Correlations Drive Your Investment Decisions?

Do stock market correlations matter? Statisticians use correlations (or cross-correlation) to measure the relationship between asset classes or investments. The general idea is to better…

Ronald Delegge May 10, 2016
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Being a Contrarian Investor Still Pays Off

Contrarian investing takes gumption. Not only are you buying assets that are hated by most investors, but you’re doing it at prices that are depressed. It’s a scary proposition…

Ronald Delegge March 7, 2016

How to Cut Your Trading Cost in Half

Although our era of discount brokers and commission free platforms has greatly reduced the cost of online trading, the cost of buy and selling stocks along…

Ronald Delegge December 15, 2015

4 Things to Understand about Your Portfolio’s Margin of Safety

Does your portfolio have a margin of safety? I ask that question because the total U.S. stock market (NYSEARCA:SCHB) has been rocky over the past…

Ronald Delegge December 11, 2015
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Gold and Silver Bars

Will Gold’s Slump Lead to More Gains for Bears?

Gold has it bad and that ain’t good. Especially if you’re a goldbug. Not only has gold officially forfeited it’s year-to-date gains, but over the…

Ronald Delegge March 13, 2015
Lower Energy Stocks

Have Energy Stocks Finally Bottomed?

Energy stocks slid 8.7% last year and was the only S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:VOO) industry sector to lose value in 2014. Have energy stocks (NYSEARCA:XLE) really bottomed? FactSet reports:…

Ronald Delegge January 8, 2015
Lagging Small Cap Warning Sign For Stock Market?

Did You Miss This Year’s Biggest Investment Themes? Here’s Four

Keeping track of global macroeconomic trends is a daunting task. For that reason, each month we organize and rank the key market trends in our Mega Investment…

Ronald Delegge December 5, 2014
Fairytale

Slaying Fiction about Gold and QE

Assassinating financial fairytales is something I enjoy doing. And the precious metals (NYSEARCA:GLTR) market is jam-packed with fiction of all sizes, flavors, and colors. One…

Ronald Delegge November 5, 2014
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Boxing Match 1

Is Gold’s Knockout Punch Coming?

Having an entrenched view is a good recipe for failure. And perhaps, there’s no better Wall Street case study than Peter Schiff, a precious metals…

Ronald Delegge October 30, 2014

Experts Get the Gold Market Wrong (again)

Two questions: How wrong have experts been about the gold market this year? And how much money has their bad advice cost people? Let’s tackle…

Ronald Delegge July 9, 2014
Gold and Silver Bars

How to Print Money in the Psychotic Gold Market

The gold market is the epitome of human psychosis.* On one hand, there’s the anti-gold camp that have utter disdain for precious metals 24 hours…

Ronald Delegge June 19, 2014
Fearful Lady

Building Your Investment Portfolio Shouldn’t Be Scary

How frightened to invest are people? So frightened, they’d rather die! A poll taken by Harris Interactive for Nationwide Financial found that 62% of surveyed…

Ronald Delegge May 19, 2014
Baron Rothschild

What Would Baron Rothschild Say about Russian Stocks?

Russia is in deep trouble. Never mind that it’s on the brink of full-blown war with Ukraine. International sanctions were just imposed against 17 companies…

Ronald Delegge April 30, 2014
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