Weekend Show – Rick Bensignor & Dana Lyons – Beyond the Iranian Conflict: Identifying Market Cracks and Commodity Winners
As geopolitical tensions in the Middle East muddy the economic waters, market veterans Rick Bensignor and Dana Lyons dive deep into the technical “cracks” forming beneath the surface of the major indices. This week’s discussion centers on a critical transition: moving away from overextended growth and the “Magnificent 7” toward defensive positioning, tactical cash reserves, and the long-term structural bull case for energy and select mining stocks.
- Segment 1 & 2 – In this podcast segment, Rick Bensignor, President of Bensignor Investment Strategies, discusses his tactical approach to the current “choppy” markets and why he has been raising cash in anticipation of a potential correction. He analyzes technical signals for the S&P 500, the implications of rising 10-year Treasury yields, and provides his outlook on the energy, precious metals, and cryptocurrency sectors.
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- Segment 3 & 4 – In this interview, Dana Lyons, a fund manager and editor of Lyons Share Pro, discusses current market volatility and his use of inverse ETFs to hedge against near-term risks in broad indexes. He also provides technical outlooks on various sectors, including a bullish long-term view on energy stocks and a cautious perspective on the precious metals complex.
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Hi Thomas. Yes, SilverCo looks interesting. I saw them present at the January MIF as part of Peter Krauth’s panel of companies, and then went and talked with mgmt afterwards. I’ll likely invite them on the KER soon to give folks an overview.
Silver Mountain AGMR is another silver restart play
https://agmr.ca/
They only need $25.6 million to bring their Reliquias Mine back into production
That looks great with only a $240 million market cap
General stock market is pretty close to a bottom, April to August will be much bigger than last year for Mag7, underneath the surface large money funds are buying growth stocks for their wealthy clients.
Looking back on history I never thought that we would see again an era of so much turmoil and excitement like what happened in America in the 1920’s. Boy was I wrong, what is going on in all aspects of American life has absolutely demolished the excitement of living through history in that era.
These days you only have to wake up and say to yourself, “WHAT’S NEXT”? LOL! DT
https://www.tradingview.com/x/FLgyI4Bz/
Ethereum : Three Drives Expander
https://www.tradingview.com/x/T85L7o2i/
Bitcoin : Expander : Top Test Failure
https://www.tradingview.com/x/G1bmMyz2/
DOLLAR : Expander Breakout Soon?
https://www.tradingview.com/x/9GUkouwu/
SILVER : Turn : Possible Expander Down
https://www.tradingview.com/x/TOK1fkX9/
GOLD : Possible Bearish Gartley
Now that you have bought into HydroGraph, you will not want to post anything negative. LOL! DT 🤣🤣🤣
Did you hear that, Bob!
I trade, and have traded HGRAF before.
Selling today may be necessary.
Charts come either way.
I think the shorts are going to amount an attack on HydroGraph on Monday morning. Their attacks always come in the morning about a half hour after the opening, they must be getting desperate. Because HydroGraph has almost a $3 billion market cap and aren’t into production they look at that as a slam dunk, besides they know that if one of the anticipated news releases come out they will be forced to cover. Desperation in any market causes wild fluctuating moves and for them HydroGraph is a shorters dream. DT
The way HG traded towards the close on Friday it looked like the shorts were capitulating.
I think it could be professional traders, when they are accumulating they will buy say 5-10 million shares but they don’t want to pay the high price so they will manage a stock to keep it’s price down while they are accumulating. The same goes for when the stock is correcting, they manipulate on the way down until they have sold all their shares and then the stock drops fast. When you must get rid of a lot of shares you have to buoy the price until you are sold-out. This is where the small buyer has an advantage he can be nimble but he must see what is going on to be effective. DT
Thanks for having Robert Sinn(aka goldfinger) on again. One of the best interviewers you have on here from my perspective. Knew of the exploration plays he suggested but nice to hear an update of his opinion about them.
Nice coincidence that he mentioned Scandium in rare earth metals list. I just picked up Scandium Canada this past week with profits from the DT’s HG. Anyone else playing Scandium at all??? Was the only I found of interest. Getting govt funding not the be all and all as we know govt’s are not the smartest with our money but still gives it another leg up. Cheers
Hi Wolfster, I don’t know why you picked Scandium Canada but I have seen that stock many times over many years. I assume you did your Due Diligence and thought it was a buy. These are my thoughts for buying stocks. First off I have four watchlists with twenty stocks in each stock list that is 80 stocks that I am watching. None of them right now would I consider a buy except for one. (Hint HG) WHY? Because they are all sitting in a trading range, up a penny down a penny, Ho Hum! I would rather have my money sitting in cash, then risking it on a chance of losing because the market hasn’t shown up at their doorstep. I am constantly changing stocks in my list as new plays interest me.
Remember the market is the master you aren’t. The market doesn’t care about what you think should go higher, the market will punish you for thinking that way. I like WRLG a lot but it is sitting in a trading range, I am not interested in WRLG (PS. I know what they have) until that changes.
Four things must be present before I enter a buy. 1) the stock must have broken through an upward level of resistance. 2) there must be volume. 3) there must be volume with price action. 4) there must be volume with price action with conviction. Then and only then will I take out a starter buy, if the market immediately goes against me I will sell, it is better to admit you were wrong and take a small loss rather than a catastrophic loss by buying and holding on and thinking that I am smarter than the Market. If I am successful then I will add more buy ins as the stock moves up.
The name of the game is to make money, not to think you are correct. DT
5 energy stocks with strong accumulation
(1) https://schrts.co/wsZdxkMb
(2) https://schrts.co/pKJgaWwu
(3) https://schrts.co/iQmJuFBA
(4) https://schrts.co/bvQAHHjD
(5) https://schrts.co/VtbziZQJ
The first fifteen minutes of the movie Easy Rider with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper and of course the music from Steppenwolf- “Born To Be WILD”!
Canned Heat-The summer of Love-1969- Woodstock-No More War- We have to get Back to The Garden
Now that you mentioned them, just listened to Canned Heat, On the Road Again
I am now out of HydroGraph, I want back in but I don’t like all the volatility, I believe it could be dangerous. You can always buy back in but if this stock starts to drop it could take a lot of late comers down with it very fast. So for tomorrow I will sit and watch the action. It has had a huge surge and that could be the sign of a blow-off top. Playing the markets is “The Most Dangerous Game”. At this point I don’t know whether it is distribution by Professional sellers that has caused the last few days of market volatility or short selling or a combination of both, but anyway the movements of this stock are very erratic. DT
The Shanghai premium on silver remains $12 as i write. Comex spot silver is $79.20, Shanhai spot silver $91.00.
Its about the only constant in the markets, day in day out, since the war started.
Precious metal stocks hate this war. They’re all down. $100+ per barrel oil and the attendant increased costs of production will do that. Not to mention the large shadow cast by the instability of war on just about everything, obviously.
Silver 1h, donno for sure if the smaller pitchfork is legit or not but it looks cool…
Silver 1h, different pitchfork alignment…
… third alignment, I like this best.
Silver 15m, new, recent pitchfork.
Great – looking forward to your interview
Repeat my question from last weekend: Silverco Mining (SICO) looks interesting
Shad/Cory any thoughts about SICO?
https://www.silvercomining.com/
After hearing Shads interview with Silver Tiger I must say restart plays are a good option in the current silver market. They don‘t have the high CAPEX issue and not come with all potential problems of building a new mine and mill infrastructure.
SICO has two restart projects in good locations (one is actually a runing mine). Eric Sprott is on board with 15%.
There are quite a lot of other silver restart plays out there, e.g. EXN or SVRS