Gold Price October Gains Were Finally Erased Today Closing Down $29.90 at $1,147.20

29-Oct-15	Price	Change	% Change
Gold Price, $/oz	1,147.20	-29.80	-2.53%
Silver Price, $/oz	15.54	-0.74	-4.57%
Gold/Silver Ratio	73.803	1.542	2.13%
Silver/Gold Ratio	0.0135	-0.0003	-2.09%
Platinum Price	991.80	-19.20	-1.90%
Palladium Price	670.60	-15.00	-2.19%
S&P 500	2,089.41	-0.94	-0.04%
Dow	17,755.80	-23.72	-0.13%
Dow in GOLD $s	319.95	7.68	2.46%
Dow in GOLD oz	15.48	0.37	2.46%
Dow in SILVER oz	1,142.29	50.72	4.65%
US Dollar Index	97.35	-0.52	-0.53%

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I've been flipping through these charts and I feel like I've been sortin' wildcats without a shirt on. If I ever had anything good to say about the Federal Reserve or the FOMC, a cosmic unlikelihood, I am plumb used up on 'em now.

Gold Price

SILVER and GOLD PRICES closed strongly higher yesterday before the FOMC announcement. The gold price gained $8.20 to 1,177.10 and silver 43 cents to $16.288. That don't near about tell the story, though. On the end of day chart you can see that gold ended at 1,155.70 and silver at $15.94. That move into new high ground with a lower close on the day is the first half of a key reversal. Second half came today with lower closes still. The GOLD PRICE lost 2.6% or $29.80 to $1,147.20. Silver fell 4.6% or 74.4 cents to $15.544.

Today's close finally finished erasing the gold price October gains by falling below $1,150 again. If it continues to fall the uptrend line from July is the most obvious target, about $1,120.

Y'all know that when you have been thoroughly whipped, it's hard to catch your breath and turn around and fight. So when a market has disappointed you, you tend to extend the move all the way out into the future forever, world without end. Well, hang on. the gold price low today marks a 50% retracement of the move that began on 1 October. Commitments of Traders reports for silver and gold prices are, it's true, not optimistic. But stocks have now reached overbought on their RSI and the dollar index is only a gnat's whisker from the same. Maybe those moves have reached their upper limit, while metals have reached their lower limit.

Silver Price

Back to silver. Silver did not quite post a key reversal, because it closed higher on Wednesday. Today of course it plunged back to that old $15.50-$15.60 level we know so well, support for 8 months until it was broken in July.

SILVER needs to turn around here, or all that trading through October looks like a top. If it catches no traction here, it could fall to $15 again, where the uptrend from August now stands.

Looking at these charts, as I said, leaves me feeling like I've been sortin' wildcats. Unless silver and gold can immediately reverse upward AND exceed recently posted peaks, they will keep falling.

The FOMC blew smoke again, and markets bought it. It's either luck or a pact with the devil, I'll let y'all figure out which, cause I don't believe in luck. They sang the same We're Gonna Raise Rates Someday tune again, and markets bought it. To those whose head is not addled by fumes from a mountain fruit jar, clearly those knotheads fear to raise rates the way a slow snake fears a sharp hoe. But never mind, the party's on again, after only six weeks of bear market worry, and stocks are a-chargin'.

Dow Jones

S&P 500

Yesterday stocks wavered, dropped below unchanged after the FOMC blathered, then reverse rocketed up 198.09 (1.13%) to 17,755.80. S&P500 did the same, adding 24.46 (1.18%) to 2,090.35. Today stocks backed off. Dow gave back 23.72 (0.13%) to 17,755.80 and S&P lost 0.94 (0.4%) to 2,089.41.

Whether it makes fundamental economic sense or not, stocks have risen high enough to call into question the lethality and permanence of the August break. They have climbed back above the 200 day moving average and risen to challenge the upside-down bowl topping formation.

If they break through that bowl, then the August break was only a correction and not the beginning of a trend change. The Fed will have managed to delay the rout, but not forever.

US Dollar

The alternative is to believe that they really are Masters of the Universe, they really can blow bubbles up and when they explode bail out their cronies without consequences to the economy, and that an economy can be limitlessly abused by credit creation and malinvestment without any chickens ever coming home to roost. Shucks, it's a brave new world, ain't it?

Upon the FOMC's announcement the US dollar index jumped 87 basis points (0.9%) to 97.86. Since the US dollar is gold's chief competitor, that ain't good for gold. With that jump the dollar pierced the downtrend line from the March high. Today it touched back to that line, but that's normal.

Assuming the dollar confirms this rise by closing above the last high at 98.43, y'all can expect the dollar to continue the rise it began in July 2014, targetting roughly 108.

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

- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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