Gary Tanashian

Gary Tanashian of biiwii.com successfully owned and operated a progressive medical component manufacturing company for 21 years, keeping the company’s fundamentals in alignment with global economic realities through various economic cycles.  The natural progression from this experience is an understanding of and appreciation for global macro-economics as it relates to individual markets and sectors.

Inflation Trade: Gold Lags, Silver Leads As Expected
By Gary Tanashian - April 22, 2018
Finally we have movement in the precious metals sector…but unfortunately for gold price cheerleaders, the movement was in the ‘inflation trade’. If you are looking for excitement about gold during inflationary phases, please look elsewhere because my articles a
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Gold's Waiting Place
By Gary Tanashian - April 15, 2018
The gold price had another ho-hum week as it nests above the 50 day moving average and the area where the 200 day moving average meets lateral support at roughly 1300. The trends by both of these daily moving averages are up, MACD is up triggered and positive and RSI is
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Gold Prices This Week and Next Week’s Outlook
By Gary Tanashian - April 08, 2018
Last week amid continued volatile whipsaw action in US and global stock markets gold continued to hang around at the 50 day moving average, basically going nowhere. This is as it should be with the counter-cyclical metal that pays no dividend and has no default risk
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Gold Prices This Week And Next Week’s Outlook
By Gary Tanashian - April 01, 2018
We have been noting that as the gold price remained in its gentle daily uptrend its Commitments of Traders (CoT) situation had not been optimal where defining a new bull phase was concerned. Last week, as gold was rising fairly sharply the CoT became sharply less co
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Gold's Fundamentals On The Move: PM Price Moves Should Follow
By Gary Tanashian - March 25, 2018
Last week Gold continued its grinding trend toward a favorable alignment in its Commitments of Traders (CoT), as large Specs got less long and Commercials less short. This is not an outstanding configuration but when considering the muted state of the little guy (small
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Silver's Equal and Opposite Symmetry to 2016 Indicates Future Sustainable Rally
By Gary Tanashian - March 18, 2018
Once again we focus on silver because that is where the most interesting signals are. Gold is lumbering along, but silver is making a statement! Last week we noted the following with respect to silver: “Back on the short-term price view for the precious metals
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Gold Price Constructive, While Silver Lurks
By Gary Tanashian - March 11, 2018
We have repeatedly noted that gold and especially the gold stock sector are dependent upon a counter-cyclical risk ‘off’ backdrop for the best of any bull phase that may be out ahead. Since mid-2016 the macro backdrop has been anything but risk ‘off’. Not coincident
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Gold Prices This Week And Next Week’s Outlook
By Gary Tanashian - March 04, 2018
Last week we discussed the reasons that the gold sector is not a ‘buy’ during inflationary phases where risk ‘on’ items from commodities to emerging markets to broad stock markets are also rising with the inflationary tide. With a recent tamping down of inflation si
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Inflation is Not The Best Backdrop For A Gold Sector 'Buy'
By Gary Tanashian - February 25, 2018
Gold Prices This Week and Next Week’s Outlook Inflation is Not the Right fundamental backdrop for the gold sector. Despite much analysis to the contrary, history shows that sure, gold stocks can rise during inflationary phases, but that sooner or later the ero
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Still Waiting On Silver
By Gary Tanashian - February 18, 2018
Gold Prices This Week and Next Week’s Outlook Well, we are on the same old theme with respect to the precious metals; silver remains in a favorable Commitments of Traders (CoT) stance in its own right and also as compared to gold. As yet this has not manifested i
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