Gold Price Rose $4.90 or 0.04 Percent Today Closing at $1,202.90

	10-Apr-15	17-Apr-15	Change	% Change
Gold Price, $/oz.	1,204.60	1,202.90	-1.70	-0.1
Silver Price, $/oz.	16.37	16.221	0.149	-0.9
Gold/Silver Ratio	73.586	74.157	0.571	0.8
Silver/gold ratio	0.0136	0.0135	-0.0001	-0.8
Dow in Gold $ (DIG$)	309.93	306.34	-3.59	-1.2
Dow in gold ounces	14.99	14.82	-0.17	-1.2
Dow in Silver ounces	1,103.26	1,098.96	-4.30	-0.4
Dow Industrials	18,060.41	17,826.30	-234.11	-1.3
S&P500	2,101.77	2,081.18	-20.59	-1.0
US dollar index	99.66	97.53	-2.13	-2.1
Platinum Price	1,170.00	1,166.80	-3.20	-0.3
Palladium Price	775.75	782.65	6.90	0.9

3 Day Gold Price Chart

30 Day Gold Price Chart

5 Year Gold Price Chart

3 Day Silver Price Chart

30 Day Silver Price Chart

5 Year Silver Price Chart

On Comex today the GOLD PRICE rose $4.90 (0.04%) to $1,202.90. Silver slipped a miniscule 5-1/2 cents to $16.221. Silver's low this week hit $15.95.

After trading as low as 1,183.50 on Tuesday, the GOLD PRICE closed the week only $1.70 lower. I showed the chart on the right this week, to illustrate the bowl or rounding bottom gold is forming, with a lip about $1,350.

Look, now, this is a heartening chart. When any market keeps dropping to similar points but refuses to drop further, it's tired of falling & ready to climb. Similar chart can be drawn for silver, but even better (4 stops at the bowl's bottom).

Gold in USD Index

Then I showed y'all this chart on the left, Gold measured by the US dollar index, Remember the dollar index measures the dollar's value against several currencies. There you see that after forming an even-sided triangle, gold broke out yesterday & stayed out today. However, it must confirm by closing above the 50 DMA. Momentum indicators promise it will. Gold is on a tear against other rotten, scrofulous, parasitic, evil fiat currencies like the euro & yen & pound & Ozzie dollar.

Silver Price

The SILVER PRICE refusal to drop below $15.95 this week makes me anticipate -- not proven yet -- that silver has formed a falling wedge that will break out upward. However, silver must first hoist itself above its 50 DMA ($16.43) and 20 DMA ($16.64).

Gold/Silver Ratio

I am wondering, too, about silver's sudden transition from stronger than gold to weaker. The GOLD/SILVER RATIO ended today at 74.157, but failed to break the downtrend like this week. Looks ready to turn down again. In march it made a similar upside breakdown that failed & was followed by a huge drop.

It was a miserable week for silver and gold prices, but try as they might the sellers couldn't break them. That's heartening action. If gold clears $1,225, buy it or silver.

Build the bubble, and the pricking pin will appear. Media mumblers today laid blame for stocks' plunge on fear of a Greek default. Greece is only a nearby pin for a bubble waiting to burst. US dollar index capped a bad week with more pain. Silver & gold went everywhere & nowhere. Crude oil surprised the experts & broke out upside.

Dow Jones Industrial

Nat'ral born durn fool from Tennessee that I am, I am not above every now'n then saying, "I told y'all so!" Stocks have been fumbling & stumbling all week near the top boundary, a sign of weakness & inability to advance. Today somebody on Wall Street opened the trap door, and all the stocks fell through. Yesterday some durned fool said "watch for Dow close below 17,620 & S&P500 2,030." Those numbers looked a long ways off from 18,105.77 & 2,104.99. Today they look a lot closer, for the Dow 279.47 points closer, down 1.54% to 17,826.30. Sliced through those 20 & 50 DMAs like a straight razor & never looked back. Fell more than half the trading channel's width. Chart on the right.

S&P500 lost 23.81 (1.13%) but also cut through its intertwined 20 & 50 DMAs. S&P had been forming an even-sided triangle, & now is much nearer the bottom boundary. Momentum turned down today.

Dow in Gold

All week long the Dow in metals has been jigging & fishhooking up & down with no effect. Today it turned plumb vicious. Dow in Gold lost 1.97% today to close at G$306.36 gold dollars (14.82 troy oz) -- Boom! Plunged below the 20 & 50 DMA. Chart on the right.

Dow in Silver

In line with silver's weakening against gold this week the Dow in Silver didn't acquit itself quite so briskly. Fell 1.33% to S$1,420.18 silver dollars. (1,098.42 try oz). Chart on the left.

This past week most likely market the end of the corrective rally in the Dow in metals. Gravity is again setting the course.

US Dollar

'Tis an unbroken law in markets that parabolic rises fall as fast as they rose. US dollar index is painting another example now. Now appears that last Monday's high made a double top with the 16 March high. US dollar index fell steadily & generously throughout the week, through the 20 DMA and now nearly to the 50 (96.99). Indicators have turned down. All those hot-rock speculators will become rats & cockroaches fleeing the ship when it closes below 96.30, adding speed to the descent. USD Chart on right.

Euro rose today, finally, through its 20 DMA (107.94) to close at $1.0806, up 0.37%. Chart shows a double bottom, so I reckon it is rallying, but nothing will be proved until it conquers $1.1040.

Yen rose 0.9% to 84.08. Trending up and standing above its 20 & 50 DMAs, but must break out above 84.50 to confirm a rally.

West Texas Intermediate Crude fell back 1.40% today to $55.74, but that changeth naught. Still broken out above the 2-1/2 month range and will head higher. Copper is also frisky, and broke out of a bull flag today, projecting a move to about $3.00. Interesting & comforting to see these inflation markets rising. Good for metals. Not essential, but helpful.

I view with suspicion -- timeo Danaos et dona ferentes -- a meeting of high monetary muckety-mucks in Washington this weekend. No telling what sort of mischief they will brew. I view even more suspiciously statements this week by an old Marxist economist named Desai who works with OMFIF to the effect that the IMF's Special Drawing Right ought to be upgraded to include gold. That's gold-plating, not reform & certainly not any gold standard. I don't want any of the Establishment's rotten fixes that only make things worse, I want real money back.

I am so proud of my office flies! I have trained them to disappear every time I pull out a flyswatter. They never miss.

With 320 million people in America, you'd think they could find somebody better to run for president than a re-tread from the Bush & Clinton families or people with annoying shrill voices. We must be dumber than I thought.

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