Gold Price Has Now Closed Two Weeks Above the Downtrend Line from the October 2012 Top

	16-Jan-15	23-Jan-15	Change	% Change
Gold Price, $/oz.	1,276.90	1,292.60	15.70	1.2
Silver Price, $/oz.	17.739	18.284	0.545	3.1
Gold/Silver Ratio	71.983	70.696	-1.287	-1.8
Silver/gold ratio	0.0139	0.0141	0.0003	1.8
Dow in Gold $ (DIG$)	283.50	282.63	-0.87	-0.3
Dow in gold ounces	13.71	13.67	-0.04	-0.3
Dow in Silver ounces	987.18	966.56	-20.62	-2.1
Dow Industrials	17,511.57	17,672.60	161.03	0.9
S&P500	2,019.42	2,051.82	32.40	1.6
US dollar index	92.99	95.24	2.25	2.4
Platinum Price	1,269.80	1,268.00	-1.80	-0.1
Palladium Price	754.30	775.40	21.10	2.8

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The GOLD PRICE stumbled $8.10 (0.62%) to $1,392.60 on Comex; silver shaved off 6.2 cents (0.34%) to $18.284.

Gold Silver Ratio

GOLD/SILVER RATIO fell again, to 70.696. Looking at the chart it left a little gap behind between 72 & 72.25. If we see a correction, it ought to rise at least that far to close that gap. Chart on the right:

Gold Price Breakout

On the weekly chart the GOLD PRICE has now closed two weeks above the downtrend line from the October 2012 top, and closed above its 20 & 50 week moving averages. Folks, this is a breakout. Take not my word for it, see with your own eyes,
chart on the left:

Silver Price

Depending on where you draw the line, weekly silver has either broken out or is about to break out. I'll be conservative and draw the line above. Has surpassed its 20 week moving average ($16.84) but rests beneath its 50 week MA ($16.84). Chart on right.

The gold price has hit that downtrend line from the 2012 high and the $1,300 resistance, but could break through this time. That's all right. It makes a little correction here, maybe as far back as the 200 DMA at $1,255.33 but probably not that far. After that it will surge for the target, $1,350. Of course, if it opens next week above $1,300, it doesn't intend to correct.

Gold in Euros

By the way, have a look on the right at Gold in Euros, and I noticed last night that Pat Heller of Liberty's Outlook reported that the gold price was the second best performing currency in 2014, after the dollar.

Silver has reached its 200 DMA and the $18.50 resistance. Whether it corrects here or bulls on through, it's natural it would pause at this line for a breather. Target for this move completed remains $20.60.

The scoreboard don't lie, and what a story it do tell! Silver up 3.1%, gold 1.2% higher, stocks for all the sound & fury up only 0.9% & 1.6%. Big mover was the US dollar index, now in a hyperbolic rise, a move that endeth always in tears & great reversals. White metals slept away the week.

I really only want to talk about metals, but I'm in it now so I'll look at the others.

Stocks gave back today most of yesterday's gains. Dow coughed up 141.38 (0.79%, out of yesterdays 259.7 gain) to 17,672.60 while the S&P500 refunded 11.33 (0.55%) to close at 2,051.82.

If I say to you, "This acts like a market that is struggling, a weakening market," what do I mean? First, these indices couldn't hold on to those big gains, even though they weren't new highs. Second, that left the Dow below the (presently intertwined) 20 & 50 DMAs which yesterday it had overpassed: gave back the milestone. Third, Dow hit the downtrend line from the December high & closed barely above it yesterday; today, it again closed under. S&P did not match those, & closed yesterday further through its downtrend line, but another question arises: Why are they not confirming each other? If the S&P500 could stay up there, why not the Dow. Whoops, every other important index except the Nasdaq twins (up 0.16 & 0.18%), closed down. Well, okay, the Wilshire 5000 was unchanged. Arguing against my liverish outlook are some momentum indicators which might be turning up. Looks like a market struggling to me, but remember stocks are a huge market and roll over slowly.

Dow in Gold

Dow in gold fell a minute 0.06% to G$282.58 gold dollars (13.67 troy ounces). Eyecatching, because it bounced down off the uptrend line from August 2013. Might be readying an upward correction. Remember the Dow in Gold and Dow in Silver FALL when metals outperform stocks, and rise when stocks outpace metals. Look at the chart on the right.

Dow in Silver

Dow in silver tripped 0.58% to S$1,248.61 silver dollars (965.72 troy ounces). Both indicators have broken down from a Gator Jaws formation (Broadening Top) which implies that the trend dominating since September 2011, namely, metals losing value against stocks, has changed & now metals will gain against stocks for several years. Chart on the left.

There's an old technical saw that says when a market breaks upward out of its trading channel, you can draw a new top channel line ABOVE at the same width as the old channel, so that the old top channel line becomes the mid-line of the channel. Since the US dollar index, scrofulous parasite upon the earthball's peoples, has burst through its top channel line, we add that new top channel line and find it crosses the scale at 99.5. That's not saying it will reach that level, only to give you warning it might reach for that line.

USD

Just as likely (in my little mind) is that the dollar has been shoved up here by the ECB announcement yesterday, so is not a permanent move. Also, the nice folk at the Fed are certainly dealing with the pressure of the US export industry which is finding itself priced out of the market by the dollar rising against the yen & euro. Sort of thing that gives Nice Government Men intestinal distress & headaches. Chart on the right.

Euro keeps on falling, down another 1.35% to $1.1210. Yen rose 0.55% to 84.88c/Y100.

WTIC gave up another 2% today to $45.49/barrel. Could be turning up.

Y'all enjoy your weekend.

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