| 2-Sep-14 | Price | Change | % Change |
| Gold Price, $/oz | 1,263.70 | -22.10 | -1.72% |
| Silver Price, $/oz | 19.07 | -0.33 | -1.69% |
| Gold/Silver Ratio | 66.263 | -0.022 | -0.03% |
| Silver/Gold Ratio | 0.0151 | 0.0000 | 0.03% |
| Platinum Price | 1,410.40 | -16.30 | -1.14% |
| Palladium Price | 882.60 | -26.05 | -2.87% |
| S&P 500 | 2,002.28 | -1.09 | -0.05% |
| Dow | 17,067.56 | -30.89 | -0.18% |
| Dow in GOLD $s | 279.19 | 4.30 | 1.57% |
| Dow in GOLD oz | 13.51 | 0.21 | 1.57% |
| Dow in SILVER oz | 894.95 | 13.49 | 1.53% |
| US Dollar Index | 83.01 | 0.29 | 0.35% |
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Whether these are one-day spikes or not we shall see tomorrow. Gold's close takes it under the uptrend line from the December low, but on the other hand merely to the lower line of the current trading channel.
For a long time I've had marked on my gold chart a potential upside down head and shoulders formation. If there's anything to that, gold today is completing the bottom of the right shoulder. Bottom of the left came at $1,268.40.
Course, all that's pie in the sky if gold keeps falling tomorrow. You can see what I'm looking at here:
The SILVER PRICE closed down on that downtrend line from the August 2013 low. If it breaks that line, it's 1860c. See chart:
Silver and GOLD PRICES have both reached their line in the sand. If they fall much further, gravity will take hold and pull gold toward $1,200 and silver toward 1860c.
Markets hit me over the head with a club today. Might as well take the licking.
Silver and gold both plunged while the US dollar index, gainsaying my expectation, rose. Let's see how this mess sorts out.
US dollar index has been highly overbought off and on since July, and persistently so for the last two weeks, yet it rose 29 basis points today (0.34%) to 83.01. That might be the last thrust to this leg up, but that's not too likely. Overbought can always get overboughter, and the dollar index faces little resistance between 83.50 and 84.15. One suspects that fear is driving European money into the dollar, now that the Europeans have joined Obama in sticking their tongues out at Russia.
The Euro barely moved today, down 0.02% to $1.3133 but still looks sick as a dog that's been eating bad meat. It was the Yen that fell over the cliff. Yen has been contained since last February by 96 cents/Y100 on the range bottom, and 99-ish on the top. Today it closed at 95.16, down 0.96%, leaving behind a gap from 96.08 to 95.3, and falling to its lowest price since 2008. And as the US dollar is overbought, so is the yen oversold.
I keep fussing with that overbought oversold business for this reason: those conditions can last a while, but when they move to seldom seen levels, they are powerfully arguing for a change of direction, even if only temporary to swing the price pendulum back to the other side.
Ten year treasury note yield today rose 3.24% to 2.419%, and closed above its 20 day moving average. It make a big gap up, which probably means that investors are buying in anticipation of the Fed raising interest rates soon. 10 year yield needs to close over 2.500% to change its trend, however.
Stocks dipped today, back to support. Dow's low today touched the uptrend line from the March 2009 low. That's the big one, the line that defines the trend.
Dow lost 30.89 (0.18%) to 17,067.56. S&P peeled off a tiny 1.09 (0.05%) to wind up at 2,002.28. Volume rose with today's drops. I continue to await the inevitable plunge, and I am learning patience.
Clearly the even-sided triangle foretells a break, but sayeth naught of which direction. Unless the Dow in Gold means to extend this rally and climb above the old high, it must turn down at once.
Dow in silver closed today up 1.51% at 889.63 oz (S$1,150.23 silver dollars). That's mighty close to a double top with the June high at 892.99 oz (S$1,154.57). What makes this troublesome to parse is this: Dow in silver spent 12 months tracing out a rising wedge, a pattern that presages a downward resolution. In June it resolved downward indeed, out of the wedge, but now has climbed again almost to that last peak -- to make a double top? Lo, how overbought it is! See the chart:Several months ago I worked out a maximum target for the Dow in Silver at 912 ounces (S$1,179.15) That would be about where the top line of that wedge now stands.
Aurum et argentum comparenda sunt -- -- Gold and silver must be bought.
- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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© 2014, The Moneychanger. May not be republished in any form, including electronically, without our express permission. 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 or 18 ounces of silver. or 18 ounces of silver. US $ and US$-denominated assets, primary trend down; real estate bubble has burst, primary trend down.
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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.
