Weekend Show – Rick Bensignor & Dana Lyons – Why Technicals Trump the News in Uncertain Times: Markets, Oil, Gold, Bitcoin
In an era of relentless headlines and geopolitical shifts, market veterans Rick Bensignor and Dana Lyons join the show to cut through the noise. This Weekend Show focuses on the transition from overextended growth toward tactical cash reserves and defensive positioning, highlighting why the charts – not the news – provide the most reliable roadmap for investors today.
- Segment 1 & 2 – Rick Bensignor, President of Bensignor Investment Strategies, shares his insights on current market volatility and his approach to portfolio management in times of uncertainty. He discusses the recent short-covering rally in the S&P 500, analyzes technical levels for oil and gold, and offers guidance on balancing long-term investing with short-term trading.
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- Segment 3 & 4 – Dana Lyons, a fund manager and editor of Lyons Share Pro, analyzes current market technicals following a volatility-inducing ceasefire headline. He discusses a “hurdle” recovery pattern, highlighting bullish setups in semiconductors and Latin American markets while maintaining a cautious, reduced exposure to metals and energy equities.
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I have been following this site for many years but never have posted before today. I remember the glory days when Al Korelin was the voice of great journalism! That being said I must ask one thing, why is there so much anti-American sentiment here? In my honest opinion it’s viewership suicide. I’m a proud American 🇺🇸
DR
Dennis, it’s probably because many of us have seen or experienced the repetitive dark side of our government in multiple areas over our lifetime. When you see evil, you have a choice in life; either be apathetic about it or speak out against it. America is no different then past empires and because it isn’t, we see the decline in front of our eyes today. We could be different but we have chosen not to be. History doesn’t necessarily repeat, but it certainly rhymes.
+1, and then some, malheurusement.
Al Korelin is my here!
Haha DT, chill on the doom-and-gloom script — the sky isn’t falling, it’s just getting some wiring upgrades. You get your news like most retail traders — headline noise and fear, seldom checking what’s really going on underneath.
Reality check-
Copper prices are rising (up ~29% YOY) — classic Dr. Copper signal of economic expansion ahead (construction, EVs, data centers). Plus, Dow Jones Transportation Average hitting all time high – Railroads and logistics showing strength, with steady freight activity and some rebound in rates. That’s another solid green flag for broader economic momentum, not collapse. Economies aren’t a simple playground swing that just crashes to the ground because psychology got a little spooked. Growth projections for 2026 are still in the 2-3% range globally, not Mad Max territory. Markets have taken hits before from geopolitical drama and lived to rally another day.
Hi Calijoe, what industry does The US depend on for their jobs and industrial strength, because they gave away all their other industry, like the car industry, ship building, mining, to name a few, and now AI is finishing off your commercial computer jobs. HINT! The Military Industrial Complex. Now that American is getting it’s pants whipped in The Middle East because they are using WW11 weapons and strategy, ie: aircraft carriers and planes, who will want to buy your defense weapons! Never mind the financial black hole this has created for your economy that was already in deep debt, and DOO-DOO! ($40 trillion). Yes the data centers are swallowing up copper as well as electricity and this will only hasten the loss of all jobs. LOL! DT
For all of the American rhetoric, I offer you this with a smile, The Voice of insanity. The best place in the world to find gold. And best in gold mining companies
“Canada holds virtually zero gold in its official central bank reserves, having sold off its last significant holdings in 2016. As of early 2026, Canada is the only G7 nation with no gold reserves, having chosen to hold more liquid, interest-bearing assets like U.S. dollars instead.”
Hi Rod, I know Canada has no gold reserves, I have been talking about this for years. Canada is not the only country with no gold reserves in the G7, Great Britain sold all of theirs around 15 years ago, under Gordon Brown when he was their Finance Minister.
As for The US they are supposed to hold 8,133 tonnes of gold. But nobody knows how much Gold The US has in reserve because they haven’t allowed Fort Knox to be audited since 1953, the time of The Korean War. Musk and Trump said they were going to audit Fort Knox and use video-tape to record the auditing. Somehow that has been swept under the rug and forgotten. That leads one to wonder WHY? Is the citizens gold truly there, someday we will find out but when a situation is opaque and not transparent like it should be we will never know and can only guess. DT
Touché DT. My point was Canada 🍁 is for the most part the leading country in terms of exploration and development of mining companies. Why in the world would they not hold gold in reserve? To me that’s the definition of insanity! As far as the audit, it’s a development that makes me crazy not knowing for sure.
RR: Their ‘reserve’ is in the ground! BDC
Hi BDC, The trouble with Rick Rule’s thinking is that instead of paying $250 an ounce CDN, we will now have to pay $6,574 CDN per ounce and counting! DT
I totally agree Rod! I even sent an e-mail to the leader of the Federal opposition party about this very subject about 6 months ago and never heard back. DT
This is what I wrote at that time:
Canada has no Gold Reserves:
This is for me a very grave concern regarding the future of Canada’s financial well being.
If you want to have honest money and an honest economy, you must go back to a currency which is backed by gold. I am not a gold bug I am just interested in maintaining a currency which is backed by something and not nothing which it now is.
Richard Nixon took The U.S. off a gold backed currency at Bretton Woods in 1971 when gold was priced at $35 US an ounce. Since then, gold has appreciated to the point where it closed on Friday October 17th, 2025 at $4300 an ounce US. (that is now $6000 CDN) It wasn’t that gold went up in purchasing power it was because The U.S. dollar and the Canadian dollar have depreciated against gold. Gold is the only form of real money; it has been this way for over 5000 years.
If you have a gold backed currency and you want to print more money you must buy more gold to back the extra currency. If you have a currency that is backed by nothing, and you print more money it causes inflation. Like Pierre points out if you have ten apples and ten dollars that is one dollar per apple but if you double the money supply and still have ten apples that is two dollars per apple.
The BRIC’s (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have formed a powerful trading block to trade amongst themselves and any other nation which has joined their coalition, to bypass The U.S. dollar. They are establishing their own currency which will probably be a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) or The Yuan which will be backed by Gold. That is WHY? The East has been hoarding precious metal and in particular gold. They understand money because they have lived through financial collapse for thousands of years. Fiat money always fails in the end because it is backed by nothing. I am not a proponent of CBDC’s, I would like to retain The Canadian dollar however that exists in the future.
The reason we are seeing so much inflation is because all the countries in The World have been printing excessive amounts of currency backed by nothing. This can only lead to hyperinflation like we saw in Weimar Germany in the 1920’s where it took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread. The BRIC’s have been hoarding gold because they want to get away from the debt-based system of the West by introducing a resource system in the East backed by precious metal.
They saw your name on the return address and put it straight in the shredder, unread.
I don’t put a return address on my postage just for that reason. By the way Terry, do you work for The Chinese Government! LOL! DT
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Gathering for Tech’s Top
Monday/Tuesday?
Now is a good time to accumulate, selectively, smaller silver producers. Guanajuanto is my favorite. Q4 and year end earnings reports are pending. Then come killer Q1 earnings…which, sadly, i can easily see being disregarded by forward looking markets with an eye on $100 plus oil and rising production costs.
Regardless I’m a silver bull and I really like GSVR. Six to twelve months out from now is my horizon. If silver spikes before then, then all the better.
Cheers.
https://www.tradingview.com/x/BIEt6gTJ/
GSVR : Buy Zone : Trading Range
https://tinyurl.com/mrxbaybw
Down Into Midweek?
According to Hal Turner The Federal Reserve convened an emergency meeting Thursday night, I believe. It was to discuss The US losing it’s Petro currency status. That is a big deal, the only central Banker that didn’t show up was Jamie Dimon from JP Morgan. Imagine them drinking select Scotch and smoking Cuban cigars. It’s funny how products from Cuba that The Big Boys like can evade the sanctions LOL! DT
Haven’t listened to Dana Lyons yet but this Rick Bensignor interview is terrific, thank you.
Okay, Why is it terrific, elaborate! DT
He covered all the bases like Yogi Bear
LOL! BS! just as I figured! You are still not as funny as CaliJoe! DT 😊
https://www.tradingview.com/x/9h0iEZFK/
NYSE : Long Term Useful Trend
Metals Mania – Gold, Silver, Platinum, Copper, Uranium, Tungsten
Excelsior Prosperity w/ Shad Marquitz (04-11-2026)
https://excelsiorprosperity.substack.com/p/metals-mania-gold-silver-platinum
Must read … Excellent
Nice write up
Shad, what is your take on Palladium?
Met the original co-founder of Wheaton River. We had a chat on Palladium, as his new project is a Palladium play.
Also spoke with him about how all the Wheaton/Goldcorp story began 🙂
I’m hearing that Barrick will be hiving off it’s North American assets into a separate company with IPO for Q4. Not certain if the intent is to create a company holding ‘safer’ jurisdiction miners. Also not certain if existing holders will be offered an advantage.
Zijin did similar recently, putting all their international assets in a new company and HK listed IPO for a nice bundle. Kept their Chinese assets in original company.
Hi Canuckski, they must be worried about some of their operations in countries like Pakistan, the Iran war could break out to include some of their riskier assets. They have a fairly large footprint in Canada, I think their intent is too protect their shareholder base by spinning off assets that are in jurisdictional risk. DT
Fabulous Schlumberger quarterly chart. PT $117?
https://www.tradingview.com/x/PP9KkPrf/
Silver 10m,
Silver 10m,
Silver 10m, reacts after bill auction…
3 and 6 month bill auction slightly lower percentage…
Silver 10m, with reaction to bill auction and potential oval breakout one way or another IMO…
Silver 10m, pop!
Silver 10m, blowing through pitchfork resistance, IMO watch for follow through…
SLVU 10m, 15m delayed, over $81 now, bought this this morning and watched it through the up and downs…
Silver 10m, with projection, if it clears 75.65$ fork resistance opens price to $77.70 IMO…
Silver 15m,
Nobody seems to be posting these days, I wonder if it is a psychological reaction to what is happening in The Middle-East coupled with the knock-off on the American and the World’s economies. Hard times haven’t shown up yet but they are a coming. The psychological pendulum is on the down-swing and it will be as hard for The Federal Reserve to stop it as it was on the up-swing. DT