Gold Price Dropped $8.10 or 0.7% Today to Close Comex at $1,125.00

22-Sep-15	Price	Change	% Change
Gold Price, $/oz	1,125.10	-8.10	-0.71%
Silver Price, $/oz	14.75	-0.47	-2.97%
Gold/Silver Ratio	76.27	1.80	2.42%
Silver/Gold Ratio	0.0134	-0.0003	-2.28%
Platinum Price	937.60	-36.20	-3.72%
Palladium Price	610.85	-4.90	-0.80%
S&P 500	1,942.74	-24.23	-1.23%
Dow	16,330.47	-179.72	-1.09%
Dow in GOLD $s	297.93	-1.14	-0.38%
Dow in GOLD oz	14.41	-0.06	-0.38%
Dow in SILVER oz	1,073.24	20.43	1.94%
US Dollar Index	96.45	0.41	0.43%

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The GOLD PRICE dropped $8.10 (0.7%) today to close Comex at $1,125, after dropping $5.00 yesterday. SILVER -- oooch -- lost 46.6 cents (3%) to end at $14.75. Yesterday it actually GAINED 6.2 cents. Is all lost?

Gold Price

Not by a long shot. The GOLD PRICE reached resistance above $1,140 and fell back, but today closed only at its 20 DMA ($1,123.80). Look at the chart on the right, You'll find no disaster there. Below gold needs to hold $1,105 and above it needs to crack $1,150, then $1,170.

Here's a question to ask yourself and your spouse: If the stock market is crashing, would you rather hold electrons in the bank or gold in your hand?

Silver Price

The SILVER PRICE fine, too, just hit that support at $15.00 and fell through. Go look at the chart on the left, Silver fell back through its 50 DMA nearly to the 20 DMA, giving back about half of what it gained last week. So? So what? Normal up and down market action.

Here is a measure of progress, and of the battle the Nice Government Men fight day after day [wipe away tear slowly] trying to paint the tape and keep everybody fooled that All's Swell In The World Cause The Gummit's In Charge. It also illustrates why I keep gainsaying those "Manipulation is everything" folks, namely, the manipulators can only manipulate at the margin, only briefly, and never successfully against the long term trend.

I mean, of course, the Dow. Why yesterday the NGM and the Wall Street pimps did a great job pushing the Dow up 125.61 with talk about how the Fed would raise rates after all, later in the year, narf-narf-narf, when anybody with half an eyeball and a quarter of a brain knows the Fed lost all credibility last week when it blinked and raised not interest rates.

But today the Dow LOST 179.72, netting a minus 54.11 for the two days. Yeah, buddy, them Nice Government Men are doing a bang-up jawb. Dow settled at 16,330.47, down 1.09%. S&P500 lost 24.23 (1.23%) to 1,942.74.

Listen now, and hear me, mark down my words and see: stocks peaked in May and will lose as much or more by October's end than they have lost already. Sell your stocks.

Of course, those of you with fat stock portfolios will say, "He is a bug-eyed looney" but you will be no different from every poor vainglorious soul since the Babylonian Wheat Exchange who has confused a bull market with investing genius. Sell now. In a bear market, money returns to its rightful owner.

USD

Only thing that bothers me about today -- that's right, I am not bothered by silver and gold slipping, not one flyspeck -- is that US dollar index climbing 41 basis points (0.43%) to 96.45 after it climbed yesterday 104 bps. That I could chalk off to the stock market's rise, but it rose again today.

Bethatasitmay, the dollar has only reached its 50 day moving average, the marker that stopped it cold as kraut the last time it tried to escape. I didn't find any news item that rationally explained yesterday's dollar surge, but I didn't have much time to look yesterday evening and today none atall. Chart's here.

Here's a question to ask yourself and your spouse: If the stock market is crashing and the US government closes the banks, would you rather have nice safe FDIC insured bank deposits, or silver in your hand?

Beats me. I'm jus' a nat'ral born durn fool from Tennessee.

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

- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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