The Gold Price Punched Through it's 20 and 50 Day Moving Averages Closing Up at $1,203.30

27-Apr-15	Price	Change	% Change
Gold Price, $/oz	1,203.30	28.10	2.39%
Silver Price, $/oz	16.39	0.76	4.85%
Gold/Silver Ratio	73.399	-1.761	-2.34%
Silver/Gold Ratio	0.0136	0.0003	2.40%
Platinum Price	1,152.70	32.30	2.88%
Palladium Price	782.15	12.20	1.58%
S&P 500	2,108.92	-8.77	-0.41%
Dow	18,037.97	-42.17	-0.23%
Dow in GOLD $s	309.88	-8.15	-2.56%
Dow in GOLD oz	14.99	-0.39	-2.56%
Dow in SILVER oz	1,100.28	-56.04	-4.85%
US Dollar Index	96.89	-0.21	-0.22%

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

Something's not right, and for a change it may be not right in our favor.

The GOLD PRICE today rose $28.10 (2.4%) to end the day on Comex at $1,203.30. Silver rose 75.8 cents -- 4.85% -- to $16.394. More, this happened on options expiry day with a huge clot of $1,200 strike call options outstanding. One expects "Someone" to manipulate the price down on such days so that the options expire worthless -- maybe they did the manipulating last week & bought back the options positions? This is not how the game usually works.

Gold Price

But standing back from the chart, putting your hand over the label & simply asking, "What's this market doing?" brings only one answer: reversing upward.

The GOLD PRICE actually punched through its 20 & 50 day moving averages ($1,197.86 & $1,192.22). This was brute strong trading action, but it can only count as a first step. Below $1,210 and $1,225, the gold price does no more than tread water.

Still, this is hopeful, and points to very deep pocketed buyers below $1,180. Sort of sets a floor under gold. Chart's on the right:

During the day gold made tee-tiny progress until 11:30 a.m., when at a single bound it shot from $1,185 to$1,200, ran as high as $1,207, then settled back. No, I don't know what the catalyst was, which points to something working on the floor, something opaque. Maybe all those short gold were spooked when it pierced $1,200? Whatever caused it, it shows strength.

Gold Price/US $ Index

Did I forget to mention that the gold price broke out today in the $gold:$USD, gold/US dollar index spread? Shame on me. Looky here at it above the 50 DMA on the right.

Silver Price

Gold was strong? Look at silver:

The SILVER PRICE had formed a falling wedge, traded out into the nose, and today burst upwards & closed above the 20 & 50 DMAs.

A close tomorrow above $16.60 for silver and $1,210 for gold would initiate a rally.

After all the new highs last week, stocks just fizzled today. Dow lost 42.17 (0.23%) to end up at 18,039.97, again. S&P500 lost 8.77 (0.41%) to 2,108.92. Hear me now: these drops today LOUDLY refuse to confirm last week's new highs. Disagreement means weakness. Breakout reversed, and was false.

Gold/Silver Ratio

Mercy! Look at that GOLD/SILVER RATIO In one short day it gapped down and regained everything it had lost in the month of April, but then bounced back up to close barely above the 20 & 50 DMAs. A sign of yet more strength.

I'm much too nice to gloat, but if I was ever tempted to gloat, it would be today. That Dow in Gold hit that upper gator jaw Friday and even I was lower than a fat frog in a deep well. Bottom rail's on top today, though. Shot straight down from Friday's high to close at G$309.87 gold dollars (14.99 oz), down 2.17%. It cut through the 50 dma and stopped right at the 20 dma. Look, look, that top gator jaw HELD.

Dow in Silver didn't "decline," it dropped straight down like the guest of honor at a hanging. Dropped S$64.93 silver dollars (50.22 troy ounces) to S$1,422.58 (1,100.28 troy ounces). Also landed sliced through the 50 DMA & skidded to a stop at the 20 DMA.

The top gator jaws HELD.

US dollar index helped metals some by dropping 21 basis points (0.22%) to 96.89, but it was a-workin' in that direction long before gold & silver shot up, so that explains nothing.

Today's trading puts a whole new light on things. If silver & gold can just close higher tomorrow, we've got something cookin'!

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

- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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