| 16-Feb-16 | Price | Change | % Change |
| Gold Price, $/oz | 1,207.90 | -31.20 | -2.52% |
| Silver Price, $/oz | 15.33 | -0.46 | -2.89% |
| Gold/Silver Ratio | 78.798 | 0.300 | 0.38% |
| Silver/Gold Ratio | 0.0127 | -0.0000 | -0.38% |
| Platinum Price | 936.70 | -20.60 | -2.15% |
| Palladium Price | 509.80 | -17.45 | -3.31% |
| S&P 500 | 1,895.58 | 30.80 | 1.65% |
| Dow | 16,196.41 | 222.51 | 1.39% |
| Dow in GOLD $s | 277.18 | 10.69 | 4.01% |
| Dow in GOLD oz | 13.41 | 0.52 | 4.01% |
| Dow in SILVER oz | 1,056.59 | 44.62 | 4.41% |
| US Dollar Index | 96.88 | 0.89 | 0.93% |
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And today's low came at $1,191.50, right at GOLD PRICE October (last) high. Lo, twas a parabolic move gold made, and a correction is in order and typical. Will probably last the rest of this week and maybe longer. Offers y'all a perfect opportunity to load up.
Silver's chart looks a little different. Silver has retreated from $16.00 nearly to the 200 DMA ($15.10), a likely target for this correction.
Things are not what they seem. Don't let today's action fool you into discounting the proof of a trend change by last week's silver and gold price breakout. Just relax and ride the pendulum.
Things are not always what they seem. I beg you to notice a Trial Balloon floated today. I don't think it was merely the wild saying of a rogue operator, because the speaker, Neel Kashkari, is president of the Minneapolis Fed, a former Goldman-Sachs-ite, and one of the main hatchetmen in the 2008 bank bailout. Given all that, why would he make a speech calling for breaking up the Too Big TO Fail banks, and even nationalizing them (by regulation) and taxing loans to reduce speculation? In other words, more government control and protection. Shucks, yeah! That's what got us here in the first place.
Not his idea, I'm guessing. He's carrying water for somebody else, way higher up. Clearly, there is no rest in Establishment-land as they watch central banking and the economy unravel faster than a polyester Walmart sweater.
Things are not what they seem. Y'all might think that because gold fell 2.5% today and silver 2.8% that the enormous breakout last week was a fluke. Y'all would be wrong, too. What you saw was usual market behavior.
On Monday the Chinese government came back after the holidays and raised the yuan's peg to the US dollar. All the stock cheerleaders around the world and on Wall Street jubilated, taking this as a sign the central banks would bail them out again by printing more money. Ran up US stocks and the US dollar today, too.
Pause to reflect I mentioned to y'all earlier there was most likely a C-wave up in stocks, and a correction in gold and silver, coming this week. I ain't no clairvoyant, and crystal balls ain't necessary to know that a long, hard, parabolic rise or fall is followed by a reaction, often sharp. Si monumentum quaeris, circumspice -- If you're looking for a monument, look around you. That's what's happening, not the end of a gold and silver rally that's just begun (and will last years) or the end of a stock decline that's just started (and will last years.) Up and down, back and forth -- that's what markets do.
Dow today rose 1.39% or 222.57 points to close at 16,196.41 while the S&P500 climbed 1.65% (30.8) to 1,895.58. Most likely target is 16,600 (1,950) or if really garlicky 17,100 (2,000). Y'all should seize this countertrend rally to dump any remaining stocks you own or to buy index put options or bear ETFs. Put the proceeds into gold and silver.
Dow in Gold rallied toward that uptrend line from the 2011 low, and before this episode ends with wailing and gnashing of stock investors' teeth, should reach up to 14.00 oz, or even 14.75 oz. I would be surprised if it reached the 200 dma at 15.28 oz, but I reckon that's possible.
Hot ziggety! US dollar index gapped up a little and closed at 96.88, just on its 200 dma at 96.89. Rose 89 basis points or 0.98%. Hot dog, don't mean a thing. Could climb to the last high at 97.50, even to the 50 DMA at 98.25, but to turn its trend upward, oh, my! Would need to close above 99.95. Meanwhile the past 11 months argues that the dollar has topped. Could always turn around, but that's the weight of the evidence right now.
The Chinese central bank's move on Monday also sent oil higher, up to cut its 20 DMA, but this means nothing yet. Closed $29.12. Treasury yields also rose (bond prices fell) as hot money flipped out of bonds and back into stocks. Alas for the refugees, no safety lies in either!
I'm driving up to Harriman for a grazing conference tomorrow, so I won't be sending another commentary until Friday. Yes, our family farm raises grass-fed South Poll cattle and we are trying every way in the world to work with nature instead of against. Takes about three years to see the change, but suddenly the pastures explode with grass.
Thanks again to all y'all praying for my wife Susan's eye. It is slowly improving, but is still so bad she is making me drive, and she hates my driving. When she takes the wheel again, I'll know she's mended.
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.
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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.
