The Gold Price Closed at $1,316.00 Down 50 cents

8-Jul-14	Price	Change	% Change
Gold Price, $/oz	1,316.00	-0.50	-0.04%
Silver Price, $/oz	20.97	0.00	0.005%
Gold/Silver Ratio	62.77	-0.03	-0.04%

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Yesterday evening shortly before I had finished this commentary, a powerful thunderstorm knocked out our electricity. Susan and I drove home, hoping the power would still be on there, but it wasn't. So instead of finishing this commentary, I got to sit on the back deck with my sweet wife, watching the rain drops drumming on the tree leaves. I enjoyed that more than any commentary I ever wrote.

The GOLD PRICE ended on Comex at $1,316, down 50 cents. Silver closed 2096.7, up an invisible 1/10 cent.

Gold suffered another raid by sellers, but it accomplished little. At the $1,324 high the selling began and within a few minutes had driven gold to a $1,314 low. From which it recovered to $1,320 by day's end. This morning the GOLD PRICE has risen right back up past yesterday's (8 July's) high, and it's trading at $1,326.80. A close above $1,334 breaks gold out of its prison and run higher.

The SILVER PRICE suffered the same bout of selling and instantaneous fall, but from 2120c to 2095c. This morning silver is right back knocking on 2116c.

I haven't checked the 300 day moving averages for a while, but lo and behold! This morning I realize that both silver and gold prices stand above their 300 DMA, since 24 June and 19 June respectively. More than that, the 300 DMA has been acting as a safety net, catching every fall and throwing it back up into the air.

Silver's RSI is shockingly overbought, the MACD and Full stochastics are rolling over, but if it can clear 2133c (last high) today or tomorrow, it will burst through 22 or even 23 before it rests. Likewise if gold can close through $1,334 it will run for $1,350 or $1,370 before correcting. This morning both appear pretty perky.

Stocks tanked today, but other markets were steady. All the stock indices fell. Dow tumbled 117.59 (0.7%) to 16,906.62 while the S&P500 skidded 13.94 (0.7%) to 1,963.71.

Those are nasty falls but as yet say little. Both indices reached for their 20 Day Moving averages, first tripwire of a decline, but both closed barely above them. What makes this interesting? Both are hovering above internal resistance/support lines left from earlier bearish rising wedges. A drop below 16,840 and 1957 and 1937 slices through that support, and threatens a drop toward the 50 DMAs (16,722 and 1,921).

All this is taking place in an utterly complacent market. In a pinch, complacency quickly turns into eye-bleeding panic.

Flat metals and steeply lower stocks took the Dow in Metals down today. Dow in gold bounced down off the resistance line left behind by its April-May flat-topped triangle. Remember, we wan these indicators to drop, because that means stocks are becoming cheaper against meals, or metals are gaining value on stock. Dow in Gold dropped 0.35% to 12.82 oz (G$265.01 gold dollars) and remains below the 20 and 50 DMAs so momentum is down, although MACD is trying to turn up.

Dow in silver has only managed a little dribble of a correction from its late June low at 797.38 oz (S$1,030.96 silver dollars). Today the DiS slipped

0.23% to 804.58 (S$1,040.26). It is rising off a strongly overbought Relative Strength Index and an MACD that wants to turn up.

Aurum et argentum comparenda sunt -- -- Gold and silver must be bought.

- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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