| 13-Mar-15 | 20-Mar-15 | Change | % Change | |
| Gold Price, $/oz. | 1,152.60 | 1,184.80 | 32.20 | 2.8 |
| Silver Price, $/oz. | 15.477 | 16.867 | 1.39 | 9.0 |
| Gold/Silver Ratio | 74.472 | 70.244 | -4.228 | -5.7 |
| Silver/gold ratio | 0.0134 | 0.0142 | 0.0008 | 6.0 |
| Dow in Gold $ (DIG$) | 318.33 | 316.28 | -2.05 | -0.6 |
| Dow in gold ounces | 15.40 | 15.30 | -0.10 | -0.6 |
| Dow in Silver ounces | 1,146.82 | 1,074.74 | -72.08 | -6.3 |
| Dow Industrials | 17,749.31 | 18,127.65 | 378.34 | 2.1 |
| S&P500 | 2,053.40 | 2,108.10 | 54.70 | 2.7 |
| US dollar index | 99.41 | 98.14 | -1.27 | -1.3 |
| Platinum Price | 1,162.20 | 1,142.20 | -20.00 | -1.7 |
| Palladium Price | 788.35 | 778.76 | -9.59 | -1.2 |
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Silver and GOLD PRICES turned glad this week, too. Silver flew up an astounding 9%, gold gained a more staid 2.8%. Today the gold price rose $15.70 (1.36%) today to $1,184.80, and silver beat it. Rising 76.9 cents or 5.02% to $16.867. Mercy!
The GOLD/SILVER RATIO was the surprise, closing the week 5.7% lower and promising much better things. Volatility took stocks by the scruff of their Armani-ed neck this week & shook 'em like a terrier shakes a rat, but they ended the week higher. Platinum & Palladium are almost up to even, but that is a huge improvement over where they were earlier in the week. Dollar finally broke, ending 1.3% lower this week.
I read some feller on the internet yesterday who said he wanted "to see a strong day with another 60 cent or more move and a close above $17.00, but that will require silver to come bursting out of that wedge tomorrow & closing the week with a big show."
The SILVER PRICE must have been a-listening, because it shot up out of that wedge & closed plumb at the top of its range, clean above the neckline we've been watching so long. Also closed above the 50 DMA & left the 20 DMA behind yesterday. Indicators are going NUTS, needles pegged all the way over into the red "BUY THAT STUFF NOW!" part of the dial.
Today's breakout was your signal. If you didn't hear it, you ain't listening.
What about the GOLD PRICE? It, too, broke out of its downward trading channel that has ruled gold since the January $1,308 high.
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Now let's ice that cake. After a false downside breakdown this week, copper closed above the top of a rising triangle today. Very good.
Hand me that knife, that cake needs more icing still. Look at the gold/silver ratio. Closed at 70.244 today! Lost 2.4 full points today. Broke down this week, smashed through the 20 & 50 DMAs like James Bond driving an Aston Martin through roadblocks. GAPPPED DOWN today, traded even below its 200 day moving average, and closed BELOW the uptrend line from the April 2011 low!
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Are y'all paying attention? Silver is leading, tugging, pulling at the reins to run, and that's what the ratio shows. Something big is starting here, unless this is a fake out like that drop in February. Oh, but this one is different.
Time to buy silver & gold. You got your signal. Y'all don't buy, it's your fault.
'Twas a jagged week for stocks. Up 228, down 128, up 227, down 117, & today up 168.62 (0.94%) for a Dow close at 18,127.65. S&P500 today ran up 18.83 (0.9%) to 2,108.10. Dow's on the wing, S&P's on a tear, Janet's on the throne, all's right in the world.
Internally that carried both indices up above their 20 DMAs & turns momentum up. Volume was huge today, suggesting stocks will move higher.
Ahh, but what do the Dow in Gold & Dow in Silver tell us?
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O SPECTACULAR Dow in Silver! Thou hast sunk like a fat frog in a deep well!
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Remember, remember, the Dow in Gold & Dow in Silver are our key indicators to the future of stocks & of metals. Down is good, downer is better.
US dollar index weakened all on its own today. More that I think about it, more I believe the Fed's resolve to do nothing in the face of a strong dollar finally broke, and we heard that SNAP! At the FOMC meeting this week. That doesn't mean we've seen the end of dollar strength, other than for a passing while.
Dollar index lost a huge 145 basis points (1.46%) to close at 98.14. Friends, hear me say this: straight up comes straight down. Tears, weeping, wailing, & gnashing of teeth ALWAYS follow a hyperbolic or straight up ride in a market. And when it's going straight up your traitorous heart will always yearn toward it like a rusty old Chevy to a junkyard magnet, but don't ever listen.
The mongrel, scrofulous, scabrous euro actually rose 1.58% today & almost reached its downtrend line. Maybe it will rally after all. Indicators are turning up, but Mercy! Who would buy that nasty thing?
Yen lifted 0.55% to 82.59, but indicates no gumption a-tall. Did close above the 20 DMA, but remains in the bottom of that four month range.
Y'all enjoy your weekend.
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.
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.
