Precious Metal Mining ETFs: a benchmark

The 2013 cyclical gold bear market and the crash of precious metal mining stocks leaves investors shattered. Some have been lured in again during the early 2014 recovery, while others are waiting to get their toes wet. A few mining analysts left the scene, while many saw their audience dwindle. Investors with limited funds and/or time for a due diligence study may gain exposure to the precious metal mining sector through purchasing one of the exchange traded funds (ETF's).

Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds: a trader's tool

Among the ever growing family of exchange traded funds (ETF's), there are quite a few leveraged products. Direxion probably is the larger distributor of this particular type of ETF's.

Miners relative to precious metal prices - an update

The focus of this blog article is on the gold and silver miners from a tactical point of view: how do PM miners perform relative to the price of gold or silver.
Special attention is paid to the miners covered by the database 'Canadian gold and silver mining', for which a capital weighted index of gold- and silver miners is calculated. Aggregated performance is one thing, it's also very illustrative that miner and explorer performance has been diverging from outperforming the metals by a wide margin to losing ground completely.

Precious metal mining ETFs GDX and GDXJ poised for recovery

Miner underperformance

The underperformance of  precious metal miners relative to silver and gold bullion has become disgraceful. It has been the subject of many an article lately and illustrious mining investors have been pointing to this anomaly. 

GDXJ or GLDX, what to choose in the Gold Exploring Realm?

Note: the ticker of the Global-X Gold Explorer ETF has changed to GOEX in 2016.

Rechtstreeks in Junior mijnbedrijven investeren of opteren voor de GDXJ ?

Recent interviewde Alix Steel van StreetTV John Doody, editor van GoldStockAnalyst.com, over de goud- en zilvermijnen uit het GDXJ ETF die hoofdzakelijk op US beurzen verhandeld worden.

Videolink: Alix Steel van StreetTV interviews John Doody editor of GoldStockAnalyst.com

John Doody geeft eerder de voorkeur aan een investering in de GDXJ Etf (uitgegeven door Van Eck ) dan aan een rechtstreekse investering in de selectie van mijnaandelen met US-listing. Vooral de drie zilverproducenten behoren tot de achterblijvers in de GDXJ. Bovendien omvat de GDXJ voor ongeveer 50% van de kapitalisatie mijnbedrijven die op de Canadese TSX verhandeld worden.

In een bijhorend artikel van Alix Steel passeren vijf aandelen met US-listing in de GDXJ de revue.

Alternative energy: overestimated but still underperforming

I’m writing this blog because of a high profile article on ‘seekingalpha’ linked to below.

Is the Time Right to Buy the Solar Sector?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/184171-is-the-time-right-to-buy-the-solar-sector

Back in 2007 and early 2008 skyrocketing oil prices made clean alternative energy producers and equipment manufacturers a hot investing item. Valuations have been factoring in not only high future growth, but also significant margin improvements.