Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Gold Price Tumbled $6.50 or 0.54% Closing at $1,192.80

14-Apr-15PriceChange% Change
Gold Price, $/oz1,192.80-6.50-0.54%
Silver Price, $/oz16.15-0.13-0.79%
Gold/Silver Ratio73.8530.1860.25%
Silver/Gold Ratio0.0135-0.0000-0.25%
Platinum Price1,153.700.200.02%
Palladium Price762.208.901.18%
S&P 5002,095.453.020.14%
Dow18,034.3757.330.32%
Dow in GOLD $s312.542.680.87%
Dow in GOLD oz15.120.130.87%
Dow in SILVER oz1,116.6112.371.12%
US Dollar Index99.01-0.75-0.75%

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Silver & GOLD PRICES broke down today. Gold tumbled $6.50 (0.54%) to $1,192.80 while silver lost 12.9 cents (0.8%) to $16.151.

With today's break the GOLD PRICE punched through the uptrend line from the March low at $1.141.60. It did not, however, close below its 20 DMA ($1,191.92). Made a new low for the move at $1,183.50. Support exists at the last low, $1,178.20, but nothing else between there and $1,141.60, and right now gravity has the cockpit.

The SILVER PRICE likewise broke to a new low for the move at $15.95. Support awaits at $15.75 - $15.80 & at the March low, $15.26.

GOLD/SILVER RATIO may have the only positive sign. It stopped at the downtrend line from the January high, but that ain't much.

I'm content to wait a while longer. Whole yankee government establishment & every central bank in the world is on gold & silver's side, working hard as their little NGM hearts will let 'em to wreck economies. By golly, I admire determination!

Dollar index behaved oddly today, well, just tucked tail & ran although it had a good start on another leg up. Official media bamboozlers blamed the drop on (1) retail sales rose slower than expected, & the IMF lowered its US growth forecast. Daddurn! If I can imagine any wormy, flea-bitten creature I'd lean on less, trust less, and expect less from than an IMF economist, I don't know what it is. Folks had to hear it from those peawits to believe US growth will sink next year? They are dumber than even I believed. I fear sometimes there jes' ain't no hope for intelligence -- it's an endangered species in the US. Go watch the movie Idiocracy -- it's likely a more accurate forecast of US growth than the IMF's.

Maybe it's just a liverish day for me, so let's get back to the US dollar index. It plummeted (one of 30 known synonyms for "fell sharply") 75 basis points (0.75%) to 99.01, but skidded to a halt above its 20 DMA (98.38). Now that might be a normal corrective move after 5 days' rising & a breakout through a downtrend line, but it seems skittish, ill-mannered, and weak-willed. There's a midline I'm watching in the dollar index's trading channel. Tomorrow it's right at 98.80, and a close below that would imply one might have to inscribe "Ichabod!" over the dollar's door: "the glory has departed."

Like a roomful of flighty teenage girls stocks giggled & cried at the same time today. Nasdaq & Nasdaq-100 & Russell 2000 fell, Dow & S&P 500 rose. Disagreement betrays weakness & indecision. Buyers are losing confidence.

Dow did creep up 57.33 (0.32%) to 18,034.37. S&P500 added a microscopic 3.02 (0.14%) to 2,095.45. Y'all remember what I told y'all yesterday, don't you? Both indices hit their upper boundary lines and shrank back like Bela Lugosi's Dracula facing a crucifix? Wilted like Superman contemplating Kryptonite, Bill Clinton facing virtue, or George Bush pondering English grammar. That's a sign of weakness. Oh, they haven't closed beneath moving averages yet, but they are close enough to smell 'em. Won't be long before stocks land in trouble again.

I haven't written lately about the Dow in Gold or Dow in Silver because they have been zigzagging upwards little bites at a time, but all the while still within the Gator Jaws and completing that fatal formation for a plunge into the abyss.

What!? I forgot the euro? After yesterday's abysmal low it gained 0.79% today to $1.0657, still mired in the mud. Nothing happening there yet. Yen popped up 0.59% today to 83.74, above its 20 & 50 day moving averages and showing a little life. Heart rate up to 55, respiration 4.

Oil is liable to surprise all the rationalizers & linear projectors with a big rally. WTIC rose 2.5% to $53.29 today. At any price above $54.25/barrel it breaks out of trading range prison that has confined it since February began.

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

- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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