| 19-Mar-15 | Price | Change | % Change |
| Gold Price, $/oz | 1,169.10 | 17.70 | 1.54% |
| Silver Price, $/oz | 16.10 | 0.57 | 3.69% |
| Gold/Silver Ratio | 72.624 | -1.540 | -2.08% |
| Silver/Gold Ratio | 0.0138 | 0.0003 | 2.12% |
| Platinum Price | 1,120.80 | 27.20 | 2.49% |
| Palladium Price | 765.45 | 1.45 | 0.19% |
| S&P 500 | 2,089.27 | -10.23 | -0.49% |
| Dow | 17,959.03 | 117.16 | 0.66% |
| Dow in GOLD $s | 317.55 | -2.78 | -0.87% |
| Dow in GOLD oz | 15.36 | -0.13 | -0.87% |
| Dow in SILVER oz | 1,115.61 | -33.63 | -2.93% |
| US Dollar Index | 99.58 | 0.80 | 0.81% |
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Silver closed Comex up 3.75 or 57.3 cents at $16.098. That's about 3 cents higher than yesterday's aftermarket.
We need to view these metals' closes not from the perspective of where they closed on Comex yesterday but in the aftermarket. After all, Comex closed before the FOMC announcement caused everybody's scalp to blow off.
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Daily chart shows that the gold price held with a V-bottom at $1,160, which was good. Sets the stage for a rise tomorrow.
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It shows an upward breakout with this recent silver and gold price weakness, BUT the breakout FAILED. Now it has not only turned down but obligingly closed today well below its 20 & 50 day moving averages, turning momentum down. In fact, all indicators point down. That falling ratio whispers, "There's something y'all aren't seeing that intends to pull silver & gold higher." That's what a falling ratio means, higher silver & gold prices.
And by the way, PLATINUM PRICES and PALLADIUM PRICES recovered sharply yesterday, too.
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Friends, this ain't normal, none of it. Nature has better manners.
Dollar index was right active today, too. It opened above its 20 DMA (97.13) and climbed as high as 99.76. Ended up at 99.58, gaining a hefty 80 basis points (0.81%). All the same, for the present at least the FOMC's announcement yesterday broke the dollars climb.
Come to think of it, after what the Swiss Central Bank did to traders in January, and the Fed yesterday, I don't know why anybody would have nerve enough to trade currencies. 'Tain't that much fun.
If I was the euro I'd be checking to see if my burial insurance was paid up. It jumped up to close yesterday about $1.0800 and even touched its 20 DMA & the downtrend line, but today it is -- literally -- right back where it was before the party began. Lost 2.10% today & ended at $1.0639. That says to me that the market does NOT believe the euro is worth this high rate any more than it believes the dollar deserves its "low" rate. That's not what I believe, now, cause I believe that both of 'em ought to be hanged, drawn, and quartered & their body parts hung on the city gate to rot as a warning to others. The market, however, which has the attention span of alone fruit-fly in a roomful of rotten bananas, does believe the euro's too high & the dollar too low. (I have not yet decided yet but am pondering whether the central bankers ought to get the same treatment as their respective currencies.)
Yen fell 0.71% to 82.71, still near the bottom of that range it has habituated since December, from 82.2 to 86.3. Hardly any life there.
Stocks lost their mojo today. Watching today's stock market coming off yesterday's FOMC fix reminds me why I don't do heroin -- too hard coming down.
Dow gave back 117.16 (0.65%) to dip beneath 18,000 again: 17,959.03. S&P500 puked back 10.23 (0.49%) to 2,089.27. Today ain't fatal but it's none too inspiring, either.
Whooo-eee! Look at that Dow in Silver! Fell like a one-winged albatross from the top gator jaw through the 20 DMA. Ended at S$1,440.97 silver dollars (1,114.5 troy ounces), down 2.03% and below the 20 DMA at S$1,453.87 (1,124.48 oz).
Dow in Gold fell but not as sharply, only 1% to G$317.11 gold dollars (15.34 oz). Closed barely above the upper gator jaw, but promises to fall further tomorrow. Every day's like Christmas Eve, just waitin' for good things to come.
Aurum et argentum comparenda sunt -- -- Gold and silver must be bought.
- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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© 2015, 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.
