| 7-Jan-16 | Price | Change | % Change |
| Gold Price, $/oz | 1,107.70 | 15.80 | 1.45% |
| Silver Price, $/oz | 14.34 | 0.38 | 2.71% |
| Gold/Silver Ratio | 77.272 | -0.961 | -1.23% |
| Silver/Gold Ratio | 0.0129 | 0.0002 | 1.24% |
| Platinum Price | 876.40 | 9.70 | 1.12% |
| Palladium Price | 493.00 | 9.25 | 1.91% |
| S&P 500 | 1,943.09 | -47.17 | -2.37% |
| Dow | 16,514.10 | -392.41 | -2.32% |
| Dow in GOLD $s | 308.18 | -11.89 | -3.71% |
| Dow in GOLD oz | 14.91 | -0.58 | -3.71% |
| Dow in SILVER oz | 1,152.01 | -59.32 | -4.90% |
| US Dollar Index | 98.32 | -0.98 | -0.99% |
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'Twas the GOLD PRICE third try at $1,088 yesterday, and it punched through its 50DMA and $1,088 resistance like Forrest punching through Sooey Smith's lines at Brice's Crossroads. Today came the mopping up with a further $15.80 rise. Exactly the sort of trading the gold price needed to exhibit. Next challenge comes at $1,125. Above that lies the greater challenge, the 200 DMA at $1,140.20, running in the same stream bed as the downtrend line from the October 2012 high.
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What in the world are y'all waiting for? You've got the buy the breakouts. Y'all write down my words now, 2016 is the year for silver and gold prices. Write that down, see if I have to eat the paper later.
Oftimes rudimentary comparisons sing a loud tune. For instance, ponder these movements of the first four trading days of 2016:
Dow Industrials, down 910.93 or 5.2%
Sand500, down 100.85 or 4.9%
Dow Transports, down 513.32 or 6.8%
Russell 2000, down 71.32 or 6.3%
Wilshire 5000, down 1,078.33 or 5.1%
Nasdaq Composite, down 317.98 or 6.4%
Nasdaq 100, down 287.55 or 6.3%
Gold up $47.40 or 4.5%
Silver up 56 or 4.1%
Platinum down $15.30 or 1.7%
Palladium down $67.80 or 12.1%
US dollar index, down 0.38 or 0.4%
Res ipsa loquitur -- the thing speaks for itself, and loudly.
Merciful heavens, I feel like a tomcat in a tuna-fish processing plant. There's so much good stuff lying around I just don't know where to start.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has suffered its worst four-day year's start on record, down 5.2%. Today the low slid 442.88 (2.6%) but the Dow recovered to down "only" 392.41 or 2.32%, closing at 16,514.10. S&P500 dove 47.17 or 2.37% to 1,943.09, 100 points lower than it ended 2015.
But y'all don't listen to me, a nat'ral born durned fool from Tennessee. Y'all listen to that bril-yunt academishun-ess, Janet Yellen, and she'll explain to you how the US economy is jes' a-boomin'. My goodness, what WOULD we do without a central bank to stabilize the economy?
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Did I forget to mention the Dow in Gold and Silver? Durn.
Dow in Gold has crumbled like feta cheese, down from 16.60 ounces of 30 December 2015 to 15.46 oz today, down 6.9%. 200 Day Moving Average stands nearby at 15.38 oz, ready to signal the COLOSSAL fall.
Dow in silver has pierced its 20 and 50 DMAs and today also the uptrend line from August 2013. Today it made a lower low than Augusts, closing at 1,208.04 oz, down 4.8% from 30 December. Both have made their tops and changed trend to downward, and need only close below their 200 DMAs to confirm finally.
Both the Dow Industrials and S&P500 closed way below the lip of that upside-down bowl that triggered that August plunge. Volume is rising.
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Yesterday something strange happened with the white metals, platinum and palladium. While gold rose, platinum lost $21.90 or 2.5% and palladium collapsed $51.35 (9.6%). Media says palladium collapsed on Chinese economic prospects.
Just to prove that low-life, blood-sucking banking is no new invention, on 7 January 1782 the Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia. Short of any real money (specie), they tried to give their solvency credibility by hiring two men to roll bags of silver across the lobby, stash them in the dumbwaiter, unload them in the basement, then sneak them back upstairs where they would roll them across the lobby to the dumbwaiter again.
Today they pull the same trick without having to hire the muscle men. They mount the whole charade through computers, electrons, and the Federal Reserve.
Ain't technology great?
Aurum et argentum comparenda sunt -- -- Gold and silver must be bought.
- Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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© 2016, The Moneychanger. May not be republished in any form, including electronically, without our express permission. To avoid confusion, please remember that the comments above have a very short time horizon. Always invest with the primary trend. Gold's primary trend is up, targeting at least $3,130.00; silver's primary is up targeting 16:1 gold/silver ratio or $195.66; stocks' primary trend is down, targeting Dow under 2,900 and worth only one ounce of gold or 18 ounces of silver. or 18 ounces of silver. US $ and US$-denominated assets, primary trend down; real estate bubble has burst, primary trend down.
WARNING AND DISCLAIMER. Be advised and warned:
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.
