The Euro Index has been rallying in the past weeks and also in today's pre-market trading, but there's a major obstacle in its way - the declining long-term resistance line based on the 2008 and 2011 highs. After these tops, the euro declined sharply and significantly, and so did the precious metals market. This time, however, we have a critical situation in Ukraine and tensions seem to be increasing each day. Will this time be different than 2008 and 2011?

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The Euro Index has been rallying in the past weeks and also in today's pre-market trading, but there's a major obstacle in its way - the declining long-term resistance line based on the 2008 and 2011 highs. After these tops, the euro declined sharply and significantly, and so did the precious metals market. This time, however, we have a critical situation in Ukraine and tensions seem to be increasing each day. Will this time be different than 2008 and 2011?

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While there was not much going on in the precious metals market, quite a lot happened in copper. It declined heavily and moved below the 2013 lows. This might not seem an important event from the precious metals investor's point of view, but that is only until you consider the fact that copper has often led gold higher or lower in the past. Read today's alert for more details.

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Markets didn't move much yesterday despite a few very subtle clues from miners and metals. Most of what we wrote yesterday remains up-to-date.

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Silver declined heavily on Friday and we saw moves lower in gold and mining stocks as well. What's particularly important about these moves is that they materialized on high volume. The low-volume-upswings-and-high-volume-downswings pattern heralds greater declines, but tensions in Ukraine are growing. What's an investor and trader to do given these contradictory signals?

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