| 25-Feb-16 | Price | Change | % Change |
| Gold Price, $/oz | 1,238.20 | -0.50 | -0.04% |
| Silver Price, $/oz | 15.17 | -0.13 | -0.83% |
| Gold/Silver Ratio | 81.649 | 0.645 | 0.80% |
| Silver/Gold Ratio | 0.0122 | -0.0001 | -0.79% |
| Platinum Price | 926.10 | -17.30 | -1.83% |
| Palladium Price | 483.60 | -3.90 | -0.80% |
| S&P 500 | 1,951.70 | 21.90 | 1.13% |
| Dow | 16,697.29 | 42.30 | 0.25% |
| Dow in GOLD $s | 278.76 | 0.82 | 0.29% |
| Dow in GOLD oz | 13.49 | 0.04 | 0.29% |
| Dow in SILVER oz | 1,101.04 | 11.91 | 1.09% |
| US Dollar Index | 97.39 | -0.13 | -0.13% |
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SILVER ebbed 12.7¢ to $15.165 on Comex. The GOLD PRICE lost -- wait for it! -- fifty cents to end at $1,238.20.
This picture is all fuzzy. Wind must have blown down my antenna. Can't quite get silver and gold prices to focus in sharply.
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Commitments of Traders for silver are lousy, so that's against it.
Here's where I hang. Gold closing above $1,264 would drag gold substantially higher, say, to $1,300 - $1,395. Otherwise look for one more scary leg down that cracks $1,200 and plunges swiftly to $1,180/$1,170 then snaps right back. For now that's the clearest picture I can get., although I've 'bout twisted the knobs off.
A MARK OF THEIR DESPERATION: Illinois' state budget and pension fund crisis is the worst in the US, save for California. From a friend who lives across the border in Indiana comes this mark of their desperation. The utility company cut off electricity to the Illinois State Police outposts for failure to pay the bill. My friend also drives an agricultural truck through Illinois and says they are setting up roadside scales, stopping every truck, and ticketing and fining if loads are even 100 lb. over limit. Clearly they are desperate for revenue.
But hark! This is only the first buzzard of spring. Most states have budget shortfalls, and many have pension schemes waiting for bankruptcy, they just haven't declared it yet. Hide and watch. Big POP a-comin'.
Behold! The US dollar index reached 97.5 resistance, twice poked its head above, then wilted like Swiss chard in hot olive oil. Today it fell back 13 basis points (0.13%) to 97.39. Maybe the 20 DMA at 97.22 can catch it. It's pounding into the uptrend line, trying to fall through.
Euro remains a mere reactionary shadow of the US dollar. Rose 0.1% to $1.1025. Yen's rally broke today with a gap that left behind what resembles an island reversal. Dropped 0.63% to 88.58¢/Y100 (Y112.89/US$).
Stocks peeked over resistance at 16,600 and 1950 plus their 50 day moving averages.
Dow languished most of the day little above unchanged, but at that regular 1:00 hour "friends" began buying and raised the Dow from 16,516 to 16,697.29, up 212.3 (1.29%) at close. S&P500 differed not much, rising 1.13% (21.9 points) to 1,951.70. These closes rose a gnat's eyebrow about the 50 DMAs (16,600 and 1,945.50). Now let's see how far stocks can rise against that headwind of resistance. I have no opinion because I wouldn't buy stocks if I had gummint money to do it, so I have no dog in this fight. Know, however, sure as cats have kittens that stocks will shed value this year like a dog with dermodectic mange sheds fur. Consider the Shanghai stock exchange with an already advanced case of mange. Lost 6.4% today.
Susan's eye has it's little problems, but is getting better. We're thankful for every little betterment.
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.
