| 24-Oct-14 | 31-Oct-14 | Change | % Change | |
| Gold Price, $/oz. | 1,231.20 | 1,171.10 | -60.10 | -4.9 |
| Silver Price, $/oz. | 17.636 | 16.077 | 1.559 | -8.8 |
| Gold/Silver Ratio | 69.812 | 72.843 | 3.031 | 4.3 |
| Silver/gold ratio | 0.0143 | 0.0137 | -0.0006 | -4.2 |
| Dow in Gold $ (DIG$) | 282.16 | 306.97 | 24.81 | 8.8 |
| Dow in gold ounces | 13.65 | 14.85 | 1.20 | 8.8 |
| Dow in Silver ounces | 952.90 | 1,081.70 | 128.80 | 13.5 |
| Dow Industrials | 16,805.41 | 17,390.52 | 585.11 | 3.5 |
| S&P500 | 1,964.58 | 2,018.05 | 53.47 | 2.7 |
| US dollar index | 85.79 | 86.97 | 1.18 | 1.4 |
| Platinum Price | 1,251.40 | 1,236.20 | -15.20 | -1.2 |
| Palladium Price | 780.05 | 791.45 | 11.40 | 1.5 |
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GOLD/SILVER RATIO hit a new high for the move yesterday at 73.095, but it backed off strongly today and ended at 72.843. It's no more than a straw in the wind hinting at a turnaround, but it's about the most we've got.
On Comex the GOLD PRICE dove $27.00 (2.25%) to end at $1,171.10. Silver plunged 1.92% or 31.4 cents to $16.077. The SILVER PRICE low today came about 9:30 a.m. at $15.64. High was $16.51 Gold's low was $1,160.50.
Both the silver and gold prices have re-entered RSI oversold territory, but as we have so often experienced, oversold, like overbought, can get oversolder. We've seen the waterfall days, two of them, so are probably near the end of this for the short term. It has done a lot of damage to the technicals and to morale. We have to reckon with the possibility of gold dropping down to $1,100 and silver to $14.90 - $14.65.
So for a while central banking is wearing her silver slippers and riding high. I hope Janet fills her size 12 up with champagne and enjoys it, because sooner or later all that hot money's coming home to roost. That's when THEY'LL wish they'd a bought a half pint and stayed in the wagon yard.
There's an old time song from 1910 entitled "I wished I'd a bought me a half-pint and stayed in the wagon yard." A country boy laments that he loaded up his year's harvest, a bale of cotton, and drove to town to sell it, but instead of staying with his team in the wagon yard (think "truck stop") he went out on the town and bought a bottle of gin. One by one the city folks helped themselves to his money. He laments,
"Don't monkey with them city ducks, you'll find them slick as lard.
"Just go and get you a half a pint, and stay in the wagon yard."
Mercy! Don't I feel that way now, a-tangling with them clever central bank city ducks! Slick as lard don't half describe it. 'Pears they could get away with knifing their mamas in front of a cop. Latest lunacy poured forth from the Land of the Rising Sun while this mother's son was still sleeping peacefully. Seems the Bank of Japan is going to accelerate its government bond purchases and triple (yup, multiply three times) its purchases of ETFs and real estate investment trusts.
Folks, this morning the Japanese yen gapped down from 91.56 yesterday to 89.62 on open today, a 2.1% drop before you ever pulled your hand out of your pocket to shade your eyes. You can't trade markets like that. And how are markets "free" if folks who can legally create money out of thin air jes' buy and buy and buy?
It's the durnedest old lunatic asylum I ever saw.
But it don't do no good to complain. They got the key to the money pump, and they're gonna pump it dry for their friends. Rest of us just have to sit and suffer, till one of us works up nerve enough to say NO.
On to markets: It was the worst week silver and gold have had since April 2013. Stocks left an "Icicle" behind on the charts, falling straight down and climbing straight back up (yeah, I'm sure there ain't no Nice Government Men fingerprints on that job!). I won't say another word about it, it'll just make me sound like a sourpuss.
Key to this'yer puzzle is the US dollar. The FOMC announcement persuaded that market that the dollar was going to get stronger. Today it hit 87.25 at its high, but settled back only 0.82% up (71 basis points) at 86.97. Indicators point to higher prices, so my double top theory will probably be proven wrong Monday with a close above 87. Keep it in the back of your mind, however, because it ain't as crazy as it sounds. Should the dollar falter, everything changes.
I already told y'all that the yen fell plumb out of bed this morning, gapping way, way below the last low (90.93) and closing at 89.04, down 2.75%, a gargantuan move for a currency. Euro did not so badly crumble. It lost 0.75% to $1.2519, but that's still above its last low at $1.2501. Indicators point to the cellar.
Yields on US government paper left a carrot or icicle on the chart, too, along with stocks. Flight to safety that sent money out of stocks and into the "safety" of US government debt has passed for a while.
After crashing like the Russians were on Wall Street decorating lampposts with stockbrokers, stocks came roaring back on whatever that news was out of the FOMC (durned if I know yet why anybody would pay any mind to them criminals, but I just keep my mouth shut). Dow closed at a new high, 17,390.52, up 195.1 (1.13%). S&P500 made a new high, too, up 23.4 (1.17% to 2,018.05. Nasdaq 100 made a new high as well, as did the Nasdaq 100. Them stocks is flyin' high.
All that business I mentioned about B-waves is still sticking in my head, how they can be so strong they can fool you into thinking a whole new leg up is starting when it's the dying gasp instead. Unless the Fed miscreants can manipulate a perpetual bull market, this ought to be over in a week or so. Stocks are rolling over, believe it or not.
I had to laugh when I looked at monthly charts. Every index looked the same with a break of the uptrend line but a close back above the line. Mighty pretty.
Dow in silver made a new high and moved into very overbought territory (78.56 vs. "overbought" at 70). Moved up 2.89% to 1,075.48 oz (S$1,390.52 silver dollars). Looks to have begun another leg up, but as overbought as it is, surely not.
Dow in Gold rose 3.33% today to 14.82 oz (G$306.36 gold dollars), also a new high for the move and also taking it into overbought land. That reaches the top of an internal trading channel that began early this year, so it ought to react back from that on Monday.
I can't remember where I read it now, but somebody was speculating on the Nice Government Men holding up the stock market to brew better election results for the incumbents. Naww! Perish the thought. They wouldn't do that!
Y'all enjoy your evening!
Aurum et argentum comparenda sunt -- -- Gold and silver must be bought.
- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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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.
