Our Almost Famous Gold Newsletter
Welcome to Our Almost Famous Gold Newsletter with Richard Schwary, written regularly after the CME close. This commentary will look at the gold, silver, platinum and palladium markets and consider what happened to create these changes on the trading floor. It will also offer world class commentary from other sources in a balanced and straightforward manner.
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The Gold Newsletter Week in Review
Gold – Underlying Strength
Commentary for Friday, Nov 26, 2025 (www.golddealer.com) – Today gold closed up $26.00 at $4165.20, and silver closed up $1.99 at $52.92. It looks like investors are growing even more optimistic about the physical gold and silver market going into this short Thanksgiving week. The reasoning being that they are expecting interest rates to trend lower through 2026. It […]
Gold – Sideways for Now
Commentary for Friday, Nov 21, 2025 (www.golddealer.com) – Today gold closed up $20.20 at $4076.70, and silver closed down $0.38 at $49.87. It looks like the price of gold this week is stuck because the Fed will not reduce interest rates a second time before the end of this year. They are worried about inflation. These higher interest rates […]
Gold – A Counterintuitive Market
Commentary for Friday, Nov 14, 2025 – Today gold closed down $99.30 at $4087.60, and silver closed down $2.48 at $50.59 . This week investors must deal with several confusing crosscurrents. The first and probably the most complicated is the fact our long and cumbersome government shutdown created record highs in gold, but that bullish factor is […]
Gold – Cooling Trend?
Commentary for Friday, Nov 7, 2025 (www.golddealer.com) – Today gold closed up $19.50 at $3999.40, and silver closed up $0.23 at $48.02. There are many traders who generally believe that the price of gold peaked in 2025, and further the rise to these extreme levels has placed our shiny friend in an overbought position. In other words, a cooling […]
Gold – Interest Rates Again
Commentary for Friday, Oct 31, 2025 – Today gold closed down $19.10 at $3982.20, and silver closed down $0.44 at $47.99. The next FOMC move will define interest rate trajectory and the relative price of gold through the holidays. Not long ago traders were convinced that rates would be lowered in two quarter point stages before […]
Gold – Extreme Volatility
Commentary for Friday, Oct 24, 2025 – Today gold closed down $7.10 at $4118.40, and silver closed down $0.10 at $48.38. This week presented a challenge to even veteran traders as gold moved between price extremes of $4100.00 and $4350.00. Investors joined the race trying to figure out whether this volatility and deteriorating technical picture means […]
Gold – Fresh Record Highs
Commentary for Friday, Oct 17, 2025 – Today gold closed down $90.30 at $4189.90, and silver closed down $3.16 at $49.86. Considering Thursday’s strong close today’s significant dip to the downside should suggest volatility is increasing. But traders bought this dip in the aftermarket, which was higher by almost $50.00. Suggesting underlying strength. And at this point […]
Gold – Volatility Increases!
Commentary for Friday, Oct 10, 2025 – Today gold closed up $29.60 today at $3975.90, and silver closed up $0.09 at $46.94. In my opinion this week’s volatility in both gold and silver pricing may be the first sign of trouble in River City (The Music Man). I am not ready to jump out the window for […]