What Is Gold Backwardation? The Rare Signal That Struck 3 Times in 2025

Gold and silver flashed one of the rarest signals in precious metals three times in 2025. Here’s what backwardation means, why it kept happening, and why physical metal beats a paper promise when it strikes.

How to Read a Gold Spot Price Chart: The 4 Things That Actually Matter

A gold spot price chart looks like noise until you know four things to check: the trend, the nearest support and resistance, recent volume, and which trading session is active.

Five Signals Pointing the Same Way Into Next Week’s Fed Decision

Gold and silver dip ahead of PPI, but five signals — options flow, a commodity-index warning, a copper margin squeeze, HSBC’s oil forecast, and a COMEX reversal — all point the same way into next week’s Fed decision.

Even Central Banks Don’t Trust Someone Else’s Vault Anymore

A Dutch central bank move of $10 billion in gold — and a quiet shift in COMEX’s own vault data — both point to the same lesson: access and control matter more than technical ownership, for sovereigns and individual holders alike.

What Is a Gold IRA? The Purity Rule the IRS Never Wrote

A gold IRA is a self-directed retirement account holding physical bullion. This guide covers where the 99.5% purity standard genuinely comes from, why the American Gold Eagle qualifies at 91.67%, where the metal must legally be stored, and the 2026 contribution limits.

COMEX Registered Gold Just Fell Below 15 Million Ounces. It’s Still Refilling.

Five stories from the last few days show physical gold and silver demand outrunning the system’s capacity to store, clear, and settle it — from a Wall Street vault to a German household balance sheet.

Six Paper Claims, One Ounce of Silver: What First Notice Day Reveals

September’s COMEX silver contract hits First Notice Day with 161.8M oz of open interest against just 99.1M oz of registered, deliverable silver. Here’s what the gap means — and doesn’t.

Why Does Silver Drop Before Options Expiration? The Monthly Pattern David Morgan Calls “Courtroom-Level Proof”

Silver drops near options expiration every month — not because of fundamentals, but because of a paper-market mechanism called delta hedging. David Morgan explains how it works, why it’s recurring, and why the structural case for silver remains completely intact.

What Is Profit Booking in Gold and Silver? The Mechanism Explained

Profit booking in gold and silver means selling a position to lock in gains after a price rise — not a sign the bull market is over. This guide explains the mechanism behind the price dips, why silver falls harder than gold, and what it means for long-term holders of physical metal.

How Gold Price Is Set: The East-West Tide Explained

For 90 years, gold has moved in a recurring tide between Western financial markets and Eastern physical holders. Understanding who sets the price — and why that mechanism is shifting — is the most useful mental model a gold investor can carry.