| 2-Oct-14 | Price | Change | % Change |
| Gold Price, $/oz | 1,214.20 | -0.40 | -0.03% |
| Silver Price, $/oz | 17.00 | -0.21 | -1.21% |
| Gold/Silver Ratio | 71.419 | 0.844 | 1.20% |
| Silver/Gold Ratio | 0.0140 | -0.0002 | -1.18% |
| Platinum Price | 1,269.10 | -18.60 | -1.44% |
| Palladium Price | 767.80 | -15.90 | -2.03% |
| S&P 500 | 1,946.17 | 0.01 | 0.00% |
| Dow | 16,801.65 | -3.66 | -0.02% |
| Dow in GOLD $s | 286.05 | 0.03 | 0.01% |
| Dow in GOLD oz | 13.84 | 0.00 | 0.01% |
| Dow in SILVER oz | 988.27 | 11.79 | 1.21% |
| US Dollar Index | 85.61 | 0.30 | 0.35% |
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The GOLD PRICE jiggled fiercely today in a range from $1,209 to $1,221.50 without accomplishing anything but burning rubber off its tires. There stands a double bottom from Tuesday and Wednesday, but today built little on that -- unless that move that topped in overnight trading and fell today is only a correction of that first little leg up. If so, tomorrow gold will close above $1,225 tomorrow.
Yea, the SILVER PRICE did about the same today, just jiggling back and forth with no progress, but losing all the previous day's gains. Silver must close above $17.50 or drop further.
What's the big picture? Tentatively I answer that the Dow in Gold and Dow in Silver have pinpointed (again) a top in stocks, which implies also a bottom in silver and gold. But that theory requires much more confirmation.
Is it even possible to talk about gold and silver reversing? Well, gold's MACD has turned up, along with the full stochastic and the rate of change. It has pulled out of grotesquely oversold mode. All that's surely a start. Silver has yet has none of that in its favor, but at this sort of turnaround it's to be expected that silver would lag. We wait patiently.
Ain't them open borders great? Looks like to me one clear job the yankee government does have is the very one they don't bother themselves with, namely, controlling who comes into the country. And now the want of the most minimal public health precautions at the border have brought the ebola virus into the US. Great job, Yankee government, sorry, Texas.
And an epidemic, or fear of an epidemic, can wreak havoc on an economy. First it was the airline stocks, hit by the threat of waning travel. Now its your gas tank. Ebola in West Arica is disrupting drilling plans for Exxon.
For reasons unclear, very little is taught in history about the impact of plagues. The Black Death, for instance, hit Europe about 1346, spreading north. In some places 90% died, and 30% to 60% of the entire population perished. Alive in the morning, they were dead by dusk. Imagine what effect this had on social mood! And England was roiled by labor unrest for the next 100 years and more because the much reduced population made labor more valuable, but landowners didn't want to pay up.
Two fascinating books about theplagues' impact are Rats, Lice, and History: the Biography of a Bacillus by Hans Zinsser (1935) and Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeil (1976). Sounds ridiculous, but Zinsser's book is a charming adventure. You can't put down Plagues and Peoples, either.
Aside from all that, does it seem to y'all that Our Masters are pulling out all the stops on their media organ to play Ebola. It's been around since the 1970s, but suddenly -- after 3000 deaths -- it's gonna carry us all away, and our dogs, too. When the media all sing that sweetly together, I know they're working hard to sell us something. Me, I ain't buying. I don't even buy the germ theory of disease. If the germ really caused the disease, rather than a failure of the immune system, then every disease should cause 100% fatalities.
But I ain't nothing but a nat'ral born durned fool from Tennessee. All I know about medicine is putting cobwebs on bleeders.
On to markets:
Stocks skidded to a stop today. Dow lost only 3.66 points to close at 16,801.05. S&P500 actually gained 1/100th point. That's probably not the end of the first leg of this tumble, but only the beginning. Bull markets die hard, in particular stock bull markets.
Dow in gold fell further below its 20 DMA (13.89) and lost 0.13% to close at 13.83 oz (G$285.89 gold dollars). Dow in Silver fish-hooked up 0.45% to 983.38 oz (S$1271.44 silver dollars). Dow in Gold has surely turned down, the Dow in silver presumptively.
US dollar index dropped 29.7 basis points (0.38%) to 85.614, but the Internet waves are filled with speculation that at least a year long dollar bull market has begun. Yeah, maybe, but not without some correction first. That may have begun today.
Over in Euro-land the Head Felon at the ECB, Super Mario Draghi, revealed new measures today to fight off the evil spirit of deflation. His nostrums will do about the same good as a witch doctor's rattle dance, only making the economy worse, and creating more bubbles. Maybe the Europeans would be better off with a witch doctor.
Euro rose 0.41% to $1.2670, about what the US dollar index fell. It rose to close a gap in the chart, but that doesn't say it will rise again tomorrow. In the past two days the Yen has staged a rally from its 90.93 low for the move to 92.24 today, up 0.43%. It actually reached its 20 DMA today! Clearly the yen has begun a rally, and has escaped grotesquely oversold conditions so far as to bring its RSI up to 36.8 today. Other indicators have turned up, too.
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.
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.
