Platinum allocation remains even more attractive 13 May 2022 close: Following a long period of weakness, Platinum is again looking more favourable and in tune with our longer term forecast. All time intervals, Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly look to have turned down with more pressure to be expected. Hence no change to our 1/3rd Pt allocation in total precious metals. 01 April 2022 close: Our Platinum allocation had a ...
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Physical Platinum is a key risk diversifier 13 May 2022 close Platinum remains one of our key risk diversifiers as the outlook for a return to it former President of Metals status still holds. As we show in the Platinum ratio blogs there is no reason to not see a return to at the least the average long term ratio (equilibrium) some time in the next few years or much ...
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Precious Metals long term wealth insurance 13 May 2022 close: Metals and especially silver suffered last week on higher interest rates and probably some general market nervousness.
Our positions remain unchanged with an even 3 way balance between Gold, Silver and Platinum, where Platinum continues to look strong against Silver and Gold in spite of recent weakness.
Technically Gold looks a little stronger short term against the USD, although Weekly, ...
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BEST token also caught in Crypto malaise but is the more attractive alternative 9 May 2022: BEST has done reasonably well the past few weeks and more in line with our outlook. Today's action however was to be expected as the market broadly tanked with little exception. We still hold that Bitpanda's BEST is one of the very few more interesting alternatives to crypto currencies and altcoins as the full ...
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BEST has underperformed and seeks wider European Bitpanda user participation BEST as an Ethereum blockchain token did underperform the broader crypto currency market by about 10%. Especially the major crypto currencies trading on their own blockchains recovered during March whilst BEST participation appears to have been diminishing to much lower levels since introduction. Broker activity looks to be mainly directed at supporting the token whilst showing continuous relatively substantial offers ...
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Platinum investment low risk versus Gold 01 April 2021 close: Our Platinum allocation had a bit of the bumpy ride the past few weeks. Whilst Pt rose sharply in the early days of the Russian invasion, the subsequent metals pullback against caused Platinum to lose all of its gains again and more to settle above the 1.90 level versus gold. In the process all time intervals have begun to look ...
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Silver: Flirting with chart resistance at Q1 2022 end 01 April 2022 close: Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine Silver has been flirting with chart resistance currently around 24.85. It broke end of February of course but fell back again to continue range trading around this downsloping resistance which connects the January and April 2021 highs. Our metals position and Silver are on a patient hold. We favor the picture ...
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BEST follows broader crypto market moves 27 Febr 2022: The situation in Ukraine has put crypto markets on high alert. This can go either way. Protection against monetary uncertainty and non-availability of banking facilities may see a flight into key crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum and others or the opposite may happen. Our BEST portfolio is still performing well with little change the past month, but we've decided to reduce ...
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Platinum investment looks safe 25 February 2021 close: No change since last month with Gold/Platinum at 1.79. Risk weight across time intervals is in fairly neutral risk territory with a tendence of developing bearish risk to price divergence. Risk weight appears to going up whilst price remain fairly static. This is made very visual on the Monthly risk chart. A strong rally of risk against a regular 50% correction. Platinum ...
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No Change to 1/3rd Platinum within total PM allocation 25 February 2022 close Platinum actually performed slightly better this year with a 10% gain thusfar since the start of 2022 rallying from 950 to 1050, beating both Gold and Silver performance after a longer stint of underperformance. The charts tell us that the price pressure in Platinum appears to building momentum for a larger future advance. Our alloction is still ...
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Precious Metals anchor portfolio stability 25 Febr 2022 close: Geo-politics has taken control of financial markets. The invasion by Russia of Ukraine, a sovereign state, put nations around the world on high alert and sent markets tumbling and precious metals up sharply last Thursday. It shows the immense financial risk that is always around the corner besides the immense human suffering in case of war. That war is now on ...
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Today's Gold to Platinum ratio is invitation for new Platinum investors 21 January 2022 close: January thusfar has produced a more positive signal for Platinum versus Gold with both short and medium term risk weight turning down whilst Monthly risk weight is still up at 66%. This picture in our experience is clearly positive for Platinum and supports our Year end for incestors to consider Platinum as part of a ...
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Silver: a solid 'hold' for 2022 21 January 2022 close: Silver has rallied some 4% in 2022. We have brought our Silver Platinum ratio allocation back to 50/50 which is just a minor adjustment in favor of Silver. For a long time, we have been figuring the Silver/USD floor being around $21 within the wider price consolidation that started in Q2 2020. If the price holds, which we believe is ...
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