Gold Prices Traded in the Same Range as Yesterday Closing Down $4.70 at $1,195.90

5-Mar-15	Price	Change	% Change
Gold Price, $/oz	1,195.90	-4.70	-0.39%
Silver Price, $/oz	16.13	0.00	0.00%
Gold/Silver Ratio	74.132	-0.291	-0.39%
Silver/Gold Ratio	0.0135	0.0001	0.39%
Platinum Price	1,182.20	-6.60	-0.56%
Palladium Price	825.00	6.75	0.82%
S&P 500	2,101.40	2.51	0.12%
Dow	18,135.72	38.83	0.21%
Dow in GOLD $s	313.49	1.90	0.61%
Dow in GOLD oz	15.16	0.09	0.61%
Dow in SILVER oz	1,124.21	2.41	0.21%
US Dollar Index	95.99	0.54	0.57%

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Silver & GOLD PRICES traded in virtually the same range as yesterday. Comex gold lost $4.70 (0.4%) to $1,195.90. The SILVER PRICE closed unchanged at 1613.2 cents. Unchanged -- don't know why but an "unchanged" always makes me flinch. May be just my superstition, but in my mind an unchanged day is often followed by a big move, one way or th'other.

Silver and GOLD PRICES can break out of this range only by closing over $1,225 & $16.80, or by falling through $1,190 & $16.00. Noticeable is their refusal to fall even in the face of their weakness. That hints of buyers lurking at lower prices, and close by.

Gold Silver Ratio

Finally, if silver & gold prices want to break down, why does that GOLD/SILVER RATIO fail to move higher? Y'all look for yourselves on the right, How many times has the ratio validated that downtrend line? But it does stand above its intertwined 20 & 50 DMAs, so momentum is upward.

Hot ziggety! I am so grateful for global warming! If 'tweren't for global warming, we'd all be froze stiff as a pike for sure. Susan & I are iced in again today. Ain't safe hardly to walk outside, much less drive. Not that I could drive up these hills anyway, not with an 8-wheel drive vehicle.

Stocks remain in full retreat, tho they rose a leetle today. Dow scratched up 38.82 (0.21%); S&P500 eked up 2.51 (0.12%) to 2,101.40. Direction is down, down. Dow in Silver & Dow in Gold jiggled up a bit, but nothing to amount to anything.

Big story today was the US dollar index. Jumped up 54 basis points (0.56%) to 95.99. This marks a double top with January's 95.85 high. Most likely that's the end of the move, but it could extend I suppose. It's hard for me to follow the dollar index, since my sympathies, judgement, & morality all find it loathsome, but then, I feel the same about all fiat currencies.

Back to the point: this would be a prime place for the dollar index to fall hard. The euro, a kind of mirror image of the US dollar, fell 0.51% to a new low (I might as well tape-record that statement & play it back every day to save myself the trouble of saying it again) at $1.1025. Yen fell 0.39% to 83.23, but remains locked in that same range. No move yet.

Several of y'all asked who was the person I had been reading who shed new light on the monetary question? Fellow named Keith Weiner. You can read two devastating and devastatingly logical articles. "Falling Interest Rates Destroy Capital" is found at http://bit.ly/1DQMPCm. Other is "The Swiss Franc Will Collapse" at http://bit.ly/1Ekb5lr. Neither of these contains any recipe forcentral banker joy.

I have to run build a fire. I'm about to lock up and freeze solid!

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

- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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