Marc Faber is famous for predicting 1987 stock market crash. He advised his clients to get out of the stock market one week before the October 1987 crash.

Marc Faber Current Market Predictions & Forecast

1. US is going to go bankrupt – His current tag-line is: ‘buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years’
2. As world population expand, food prices will continue to rise – Faber advises stock pickers to play on future food and water shortages by buying into companies with exposure to agriculture and water treatment technologies.
3. Commodities – Gold and other metals are still long term buys.
4. One of his most controversial forecast is imminent dirty war between US  and China over access to limited oil resources.

Marc Faber Market Predictions & Forecast is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

The common knowledge is Copper prices and prices of all other metals have been driven up by the rising demand in China and India. But the truth is another hidden hand is at play here : Some commodity traders have successfully cornered the markets.

Fundamentals for Higher Copper Prices

The wallstreet journal is reporting a single trader has reported it owns 80%-90% of the copper sitting in London Metal Exchange warehouses, equal to about half of the world’s exchange-registered copper stockpile and worth about $3 billion.

If a single player has such a large control of the commodity you can only conclude this has created an artificial shortage.

Copper ETFs

Another hand is the power of ETF. This funds have increased the amount of money flowing into metal prices. They are buying up the metal pushing the prices higher and higher.

When you combine, the rising demand for the commodity in China, the dominant control by one player plus the power of the ETFs you can predict or forecast Copper prices will continue to remain high, atleast for now.

Copper Fundamentals is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

Look at this 2009 Price trends of this metals

2009 Gold Price Trend – up 34%

2009 Silver price trend – up 63%

2009 Platinum price trend – up 56%

2009 Palladium price trend – up an impressive 98%

If your mind was focused on the falling prices of real estate & non-starter stock market recoveries, you might have missed this commodities bull.

Should investors jump in? No! I don’t think just because this metal commodities have done well in the past they will continue doing well.

Strategy for making money in Metal commodities.

Whatever goes up, eventually comes down, one strategy is to focus on shorting the metals or sell the futures contract.

Strategy two, only for the seasoned pro, if you know how to play the speculation game keep buying the futures contract.

2009 Price Trend of Gold : Silver : Platinum is a post from: Daily Investment Tips