Final Benchmark Update

 “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."(Eccl 3:1)

The Market Pendulum site was retired in January in 2025 after 15 years of service. It's remains open for those interested in its timeless content including Trader Garrett's Library.

The world class Benchmark site remained open. Recent parabolic activity became epidemic which resulted in all published goals being met.

In a February 15^th member announcement it was noted “many enjoyed the recent parabolic rise in gold, silver and stocks and took money off the table”. Now we see why.

Benchmark's Final Forecasts & Results

• March 2024 - Silver to $35 in 2024. Arrived 10/22/24
• Nov 2024 - Silver to $50 in 2025. Arrived 10/9/25
• Benchmark's January 2025 MPO (Minimum Price Objective) for Gold of $5400 to $5900. This goal was achieved January 2026 and much sooner than expected.
• The January’s 2025 forecast also included a MPO for GSG of $28 to $30. This goal was achieved recently near $31.
• MPO's for 45 of 46 stock/index had a rousing success rate of 97.8%.

In November 2025, a Benchmark member flew in from Canada just to thank the Old Prospector for his services. This was indeed a great honor and pleasure.

Final Question 

How were all these results done? This has been a frequent question.

The answer to this buried treasure question is found in 3 separate areas on this site. Hint: It all has to do with "time". Find it.

Thank You

All Benchmark's forecasts and achievements are basically complete.

At this time, I want to again thank all Benchmark members including Trader Dan Norcini, Dr. Kern & Sven Tövik for their contributions, interest and participation over many years. 

The Old Prospector and his Benchmark site is now retiring as well. 

3/14/26

The Nova Experience

Benchmark has a list of 28 high grade stock candidates in the gold/silver, copper, critical minerals and oil space for members.

1) Our O3 Mining selection of 11/2 (for Benchmark members) was taken over by AEM as documented here. That's a 53% gain in less than 6 weeks. For all who participated, congratulations!

2) Another candidate has more than 1 oz of Gold behind each and every share. No one else comes close.

3) Another selection was the unique Nova Minerals (NVA). On their main deposit, they have 4.05 mil/oz of gold with total resources of 9.9/mil oz. They also have high grade antimony deposits plus some other critical minerals including cobalt, gallium, tungsten etc.

With only 4.1mil shares (extraordinarily low) and insiders owning 8%, it was a no-brainer investment in early December when the daily buy signal occurred. While NVA is a listed stock, I chose the warrant route and whose price was tied to the common shares.

Since then, NVA gained more than 100% while the warrants gained over 300% just as a proprietary sell signal point was achieved.

Would you like to join the free Benchmark area inside Market Pendulum? Serious readers deserve serious results. You can get a key here.

1/8/25

Game Changing Technology Benefits - EV + Silver

In August, Samsung introduced a game changing battery technology that benefits both electric vehicles and silver. Details are here. 

It needs economies of scale to be reasonably priced for regular EV cars in time.

However, "the firm has signed an agreement with Toyota to begin mass production of Solid State batteries in 2027, with Lexus vehicles scheduled to be among the first to integrate the new technology."

Benchmark Outlook

Improvements in battery life and safety at all levels will gain momentum over the next few years and bears watching. The Silver Zinc battery is an example.

Silver's longer term prospects and price projections for 2025 and beyond are now greatly improved with this development. 

In addition, silver above ground supply overhang and recycle inventory are coming down big time, according to a very respected silver analyst. This also supports Benchmark's Firepower price and trend projections.

11/12/24 (2025 Update here & here)

Benchmark Firepower System

Adapted from the Old Prospector's state-of-the-art GPS system described in Part 10 of the IGM, the Benchmark Firepower engine is designed exclusively for the weekly and above time frame trends.

Acting like an AI robot and using only one indicator, this remarkable prospecting system locates BOT (Bottom Of Trend) entry areas using an internal guidance system, unique sensitivity levels and exclusive trend parameters.

Time frame trend analysis provides context, clarity and confirmation.

                                                                            

                                 Time Frame Benefits

Investing in higher time frames has three major benefits:

• Signals last longer without interruptions

• Profit potential is far greater than the daily

• Valid signals typically occur sooner than traditional methods

Advanced Benchmark Indicators are here.

Benchmark Firepower member information and chart examples are here.

Amazing But True

In ancient times, they took a cup of water from the river, put a pure gold nugget in the water to kill the bacteria and drank the water.

"Cleopatra famously used pure gold as a face mask to keep her skin youthful. During the Roman era, gold was made into a salve and used to treat various skin diseases and infections." 

Silver does the about the same thing. On the Oregon Trail and others, pioneers always had silver coins in their water buckets.

Wearing 24 carat gold is actually very healthy thing for your body as well. It relieves arthritic symptoms, reduces soreness or infections, regulates body temperature which improves the immune system, helps skin care and improves mood.

Currently, "Gold Nanoparticles (AuNPs) are a powerful addition to the range of techniques available for virus testing and control" as explained here. Silver nanoparticles have potential "use as antiviral therapeutics against pathogenic viruses" as demonstrated here.

Amazing but true.

Related: Copper Destroys Viruses & Bacteria

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