Gold Price Close Today : 1369.40
Change : 61.60 or 4.71%
Silver Price Close Today : 23.242
Change : 1.728 or 8.03%
Gold Silver Ratio Today : 58.919
Change : -1.869 or -3.07%
Silver Gold Ratio Today : 0.01697
Change : 0.000522 or 3.17%
Platinum Price Close Today : 1472.40
Change : 47.80 or 3.36%
Palladium Price Close Today : 736.55
Change : 35.10 or 5.00%
S&P 500 : 1,722.34
Change : -3.18 or -0.18%
Dow In GOLD$ : $236.04
Change : $ (11.76) or -4.74%
Dow in GOLD oz : 11.419
Change : -0.569 or -4.74%
Dow in SILVER oz : 672.77
Change : -55.91 or -7.67%
Dow Industrial : 15,636.55
Change : -40.39 or -0.26%
US Dollar Index : 80.345
Change : 0.075 or 0.09%
Today the GOLD PRICE rose $61.60 (4.7%) to $1,369.40 and silver gained an eye-popping 172.8 cents (8%) to 2324.2c. Remember, those are the gains from yesterday's low Comex closes, not the gains from the end-of-day prices. Clearly, this demands we act, and I'll tell you how below.
Final proof of the silver and GOLD PRICE reversal will come tomorrow or next day when gold closes above $1,385 and SILVER above 2400c. Still needed after that is silver above 2500c and gold above $1,434.
Should you wait for the confirmations to buy? I don't think so, after a powerful reversal like we saw yesterday and today. I think it's time to load up the wagon, but then I am a plunger and a risk taker, as well y'all know. Past that, Bernanke has proven once again -- did y'all really NEED for it to be proven again? -- that the only answer Our Masters have to economic crisis and depression is "print more money." That makes silver and gold as near a sure thing as y'all are ever likely to see.
I'm sorry I missed sending y'all a commentary yesterday, but I was tied up with a crew filming a documentary about people who leave the city for an agrarian life in the country, "Beyond Off the Grid." Y'all go check it out at http://beyondoffgrid.com, and if you like the idea, you can help them out. I have already.
Y'all already know what my commentary for yesterday would have sounded like, pennants of sarcasm floating with streamers of cynicism and "I-told-y'all-sos." Alas, I didn't get to send forth those streamers and pennants yesterday, so will compensate today. I will drink in great draughts of daily news and government lies and Fed propaganda to stimulate my sarcasm gland. I really want to say, "I told y'all they wouldn't taper,' but I will forego that pleasure for the sake of humility.
Bernanke and the other criminals at the Fed sucked in the world's wise ones (and economists) on Wall Street and the media with tales of tapering. Alas, the victims learned yesterday 'twas only 'twaddle, idle jawboning to deceive the gullible. 'Tis easy to lie. Lenin gave Felix Dzherzhinsky, his secret police chief, the key to getting lies believed: "Tell them what they want to hear." Seems Bernanke and the FOMC read Lenin's book.
Yea, the almighty Fed even backed off its claims of prescience (claims upon which its raison d'être is pyramided) and lowered its economic growth forecasts for 2013 and 2014. Wait, wait -- you mean we're NOT better off having "experts" running things? You mean "Ph.D" actually does stand for "Piled Higher and Deeper"? You mean academics who have never run a business or met a payroll in their lives don't really know how to run the world's biggest economy?
Well, shucks. I am well and truly disillusioned.
Now, on to markets.
Remember that Comex closes at 1:30 Eastern, BEFORE the FOMC bloviation takes place. So yesterday silver closed at 2151.4c, down 22.1 cents and gold at $1,307.80, down $1.70 (yet above that critical $1,300). Lo, and Behold! Ben mumbled, and the net was "We ain't gonna taper until 2014, if ever."
Markets went wild. Stocks soared and in fifteen minutes gold gained $50 (3.8%) and silver 100 cents (4.6%). Blew right thru resistance levels. And closed higher today, along with breaking into new low territory yesterday and closing higher today. Bingo! Complete key reversal, confirmed.
Stocks jubilated yesterday. Dow hit a new all time high at 15676.94, and a new intraday high at 15,709.58. S&P500 also struck a new high at 1,725.52.
Today stocks sang not quite so sweetly. Dow gave back 40.39 (0.26%) to 15,636.55 while the S&P500 lost 3.18 (0.18%) at 1,722.34. We have no way of knowing yet, but this third peak in a series of slightly higher peaks would paint a perfect top on this counter-cyclical rally in the on-going stock bear market.
Ahh, but the self-satisfied chortling really becomes shameless when I cast my eye on the Dow in Gold and Dow in Silver. Yea, Validation, thou art sweet!
Dow in gold closed sharply down today, 4.74% at 11.419 oz (G$236.04 gold dollars), confirming yet again that the June high was THE high. Dow in silver was turned back by its 50 DMA (711.87) and lost 7.67% or 55.91 oz today, ending at 672.77 oz. They won't pass these heights again.
Yesterday the US dollar index lost 106 basis points or 1.30% and ended at 80.23. Think about what happens when you are leaning over the rail of the ferry looking at the water, lean too far and your glasses fall out of your pocket. That's what the dollar index chart looks like. Fell plumb through support at 81, past the August low at 80.77 and the June low at 80.50. It will not pass this way again. All that remains for the dollar to turn down without recall is a close below 79.50.
The Nice Japanese Government Men must have stayed up all night selling yen against that falling dollar tide cause today the yen closed 100.57, down 1.43%. That strikes me as against nature, if not a crime against nature.
Scrofulous, nasty euro was the big gainer from the dollar's plunge. Shot up yesterday and rose another 0.13% today to end at $1,3531, above $1.3500 resistance and apparently headed much higher. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed currency is king.
Bond yields fell yesterday (bond prices rose), but that won't last. Interest rates will have to rise to compensate bond holders for the certainty of dollar depreciation. Bernanke's zero interest rate policy is doomed, and so is the bubble in bonds it blew up. FOMC's announcement might have bought it a little time, but its doom is sealed.
I don't ask y'all for much or ask often, but I would like to ask a favor. I have a beloved friend, Fiona, who has been diagnosed with several tumors, including one in her brain. She has a husband and a little boy six. I would deeply appreciate your prayers on her behalf. For this I need y'all's help.
Argentum et aurum comparenda sunt -- -- Gold and silver must be bought.
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To avoid confusion, please remember that the comments above have a very short time horizon. Always invest with the primary trend. Gold's primary trend is up, targeting at least $3,130.00; silver's primary is up targeting 16:1 gold/silver ratio or $195.66; stocks' primary trend is down, targeting Dow under 2,900 and worth only one ounce of gold; US$ or US$-denominated assets, primary trend down; real estate bubble has burst, primary trend down.
WARNING AND DISCLAIMER. Be advised and warned:
Do NOT use these commentaries to trade futures contracts. I don't intend them for that or write them with that short term trading outlook. I write them for long-term investors in physical metals. Take them as entertainment, but not as a timing service for futures.
NOR do I recommend investing in gold or silver Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs). Those are NOT physical metal and I fear one day one or another may go up in smoke. Unless you can breathe smoke, stay away. Call me paranoid, but the surviving rabbit is wary of traps.
NOR do I recommend trading futures options or other leveraged paper gold and silver products. These are not for the inexperienced.
NOR do I recommend buying gold and silver on margin or with debt.
What DO I recommend? Physical gold and silver coins and bars in your own hands.
One final warning: NEVER insert a 747 Jumbo Jet up your nose. No, I don't.
