| 7-Jul-15 | Price | Change | % Change |
| Gold Price, $/oz | 1,152.40 | -20.50 | -1.75% |
| Silver Price, $/oz | 14.950 | -0.761 | -4.84% |
| Gold/Silver Ratio | 77.084 | 2.429 | 3.25% |
| Platinum Price | 1041.10 | -24.00 | -2.25% |
| Palladium Price | 651.40 | -23.75 | -3.52% |
| Dow | 17,683.58 | -46.53 | -0.26% |
| US Dollar Index | 97.080 | 0.600 | 0.62% |
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Let's get one thing straight: my interpretation presupposes that we are witnessing seasonal lows for silver and GOLD PRICES that will follow the usual seasonal pattern and pull up the rest of the year. If I am wrong about that, then silver and gold prices could plunge as bad as some analysts have been calling for. Until I see that confirmed, I will stick with my seasonal low interpretation.
The gold price made its low for the post-2011 correction last November at $1,130.40. Draw a line from there through the March low and it will form the bottom boundary of an even-sided triangle that gold broke up out of in May, only to collapse. Extend that boundary and you catch today's gold low. Also, gold is right on that downtrend from October 2012. Gainsayers: RSI is not oversold as it was in November and May, nor are other indicators at the same extremes. That makes me gulp, but I'm sticking to my seasonal pattern story all the same.
The SILVER PRICE pierced $15.50 support stretching back to last November. Remember that freaky one day silver plunge on 1 December 2015, when it went down to $14.165 instantaneously and just as instantaneously recovered on huge volume? Well, that's the next support, if today doesn't belong to a one or two day wonder spike low. As with the gold price, RSI and other indicators aren't particularly encouraging, but that's the way it always is at bottoms. Confirmation comes later.
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I'll be switched! I have one other little thing to think about: Bollinger Bands. Gold price today touched its THREE standard deviation lower BB. Silver cut clean through its 3-sigma BB and then some, just like 1 Dec 2014. That would indicate a turnaround lies not far in the future.
I'm not minimizing the risk that silver and gold will fall further here, but I am also looking at a world economy trying to shake apart like an old Yugo, with the only rotten, scrofulous fiat currency standing the US dollar, and it's leprous. Whatever respectability the dollar had left has been all squandered since 2008 by the Fed. In a panic that dollar might shoot up, but when the dust begins settling, silver and gold will surge -- and last.
I know y'all are all worked up about today's markets and the metals' plunge, but I'm gonna circle around it first.
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Sprinkle in liberally a little history: the development of every undeveloped economy always ends in overdevelopment and crash. Then there is the myth peddled everywhere and believed by everyone that a nation run by socialists at the top -- notwithstanding their ingrained Marxism --can become the world's economic Wunderkind. I reckon all those believers thought corruption was going to save Chinese capitalism from communism.
Since about 16 June the Shanghai Index has plummeted 28% at today's low. Last week the Chinese government pulled out all stops to check the panic, even buying stock futures just like the Nice Government men here, servants of our socialist masters. Over the weekend government out did the capitalists: offered a stock stabilization fund, moratorium on IPOs, liquidity pledge from the People's Bank of China, and guaranteed liquidity to the state-backed margin lender. Shanghai rose 8% Monday, and then fell again today 1.29% to a new intraday low for the move.
This much of the China myth is true: they've been buying lots of commodities for years. That's what routed commodity markets today, most likely, the prospect of the Chinese ceasing to buy and stockpile huge amounts of commodities. That probably helped rout silver and gold, too, as perhaps Chinese seeking to meet margin calls sold gold. Sad lesson coming for the Chinese about the difference between stocks and gold.
Finally, China has 1.357 billion people and an $18.9 trillion GDP while Greece has 0.0108 billion people and a $0.294 trillion economy. Even a no-nothing hick like me can see there ain't no comparison for trouble-causing potential. While Europe (not zackly in prime economic shape itself) keeps diddling with Greece and bailing out its banks, now China is threatening to blow apart. It's enough to send our Masters of the Universe running for the Excedrin -- or reaching for a waste basket to puke in.
We've closed the circle now and come round to today's markets.
The Nice Government Men for the Socialist States of America managed to jack the Dow from a 17,466 low, down 218 points, to ending up 93.33 (0.53%) at 17,776.91. Call me a conspiracy theorist, see if I care. They've got a Plunge Protection Team and they use it. Besides go search the Wall St. Journal archives for that November or December 1987 post mortem series on the 1987 stock market crash. It's all in there -- from Greenspan to the lower apparatchiki, they all braggd how they bought the S&P500 futures and smashed gold by trashing platinum futures, arm-twisted CEOs to buy their own stocks, etc. So don't turn your New York nose up at me as a "conspiracy theorist." Everybody knows the Wall Street Journal wouldn't print no lie.
Whooo. Got worked up there. Sorry. S&P500 rose 12.58 (0.61%) to 2,081.34, respectable enough, and like the Dow, to bring it back from beneath the 200 DMA AND a new intraday low for the move.
Y'all think I'm jes' a barfut nat'ral born durned fool from Tennessee, but if y'all stick with them stocks, y'all are gonna take a Chinese lickin'.
But the Dow in Gold and Dow in silver both took lickin's today, too. As you'd expect because of silver's greater volatility, it took a bigger hit. Dow in silver closed up 5.25% at S$1,531.27 silver dollars (1,184.34 ounces), a new high for the move and 2.7% above the last high. Dow in Gold hit only G$318.55 gold dollars (15.41 troy ounces). That matched the high close of 23 June, but not the G$322.07 (15.58 oz) high in March, the highest level since the gator jaws began forming. (Significance of that 2.7% DiS number is the 3% rule, markets need to exceed old highs by 3% to break out.)
Am I digging around in my drawer for a box cutter to open a vein because they punched into the top gator jaw? Don't hold yer breath. Punching into that overhead jaw is consistent with seasonal lows in silver and gold prices. And on plunges silver always plays the weak sister.
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Euro is the mirror image of the dollar index, so it dropped 0.49% today to $1.1004, targeting $1.0350 or oblivion, take your pick. Yen is even trying to rally, but the Japanese NGM are keeping it tame. Up 0.03% today to 81.61, but intraday tried to punch through its 50 DMA.
As you'd expect with the dollar index rising and somebody fixing to panic, yields on US Treasuries gapped down again today (Treasury prices gapped up), for the second day. Clearly, some of the guests are paying big money to check out of the Hotel California.
Today I was slated to take six of my grandchildren, my son's mother-in-law, and her visiting mother to Shiloh battlefield. I stopped by the office to pick something up and the first thing that struck my eyes was silver at 1483c. I had to go anyway. Today was also the day the socialist US Mint announced it is suspending silver (not gold) American Eagle deliveries for an unspecified time. Any private business would ramp up production to meet demand,
but not no gummit agincy, no sirree! Silver Eagles' already overblown premium will rise . I don't recommend them now, as I didn't recommend them yesterday or for the whole course of their existence, because they are too blasted expensive and OVER TIME PREMIUM ALWAYS DISAPPEARS.
On 7 July 1863 the US (north) began its first military draft. You could buy an exemption for $100 or 4.8375 gold ounces, today about $5,565. So many northerners opted out that the yankee government started running out of soldiers and stooped to kidnapping Irishmen off the boats and importing Germans who couldn't read US newspapers.
Aurum et argentum comparenda sunt -- -- Gold and silver must be bought.
- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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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.
