Man, nothing but good news out of Europe today, & they really have that crisis under control, like a hound with hydrophobia is learning to control his drooling. French president Sarcophagus became the first president since 1958 not to win re-election on the first ballot, and Sarcophagus is the other half of the Franco-Teutonic Dynamic Duo, with German Chancellor Ferkel. No Sarcophagus, no Duo, no leadership. Next budget talks collapsed in the Netherlands -- the next Greece?! And basking in all this good news, Euro stock markets tumbled to 3 month lows. Never mind that foam on his lips, Europe will be all right.

I reckon the Resplendent Ones at the IMF meeting did not, after all, solve all the world's financial problem. What a surprise.

Y'all would guess on a day that hit stocks & metals such a blow, not to mention all the troubles in Europe, that the US Dollar Index would have soared. Y'all would guess wrong, cause the dollar index rose a meager 18 basis points (0.23%) to 79.374, merely enough to save itself from breaking down.

Just to give y'all a flavor of how hard it must be to manipulate markets and make 'em stick, the euro today dropped 0.5% to $1.3154. Remember that on Friday it had jumped up through its downtrend line & tangled its feet in the jumble of moving averages up above. I mused then that it looked right suspicious, like a drunk with a half-pint sized bulge in his back pocket, but it might not have been Nice Government Men. It might have been merely shorts pulling out of the market before the Resplendent met. Either way, the Euro didn't stick, and I expect that gigantic euro short out there has today measurably swollen.

On the globe's other side the yen rose 0.47% to 123.24c (Y81.14/US$1). That carries it -- with a gap -- above the 50 DMA yet again, which argues that the yen did NOT post an island reversal last week, but I'd still like to see higher prices to second that.

Stocks had a teeth-gnashing day. They opened underwater & stayed there all day swimming like somebody from New Jersey wearing those famous concrete overshoes. Wasn't that they jiggled up & down, they just sank on the open and stayed there. Dow lost 102.09 (0.78%) to end at 12,927.17. The S&P 500 lost 11.59 (0.84%) to 1,366.94.

Been warning y'all about the head & shoulders top in the Dow & S&P500. S&P500 today closed nearly square on the neckline (about 1,360). Dow's right shoulder, on the other hand, stands about 200 points above its 12,700 neckline. No matter, when stocks lurch through that neckline, they'll drop off a cliff, shave 600 points off the Dow in a few days.

But Great Grasping Greenspans & Bouncing Bernankes! What do I know? I'm no more'n a natural born fool from Tennessee, just a-watchin' my betters perform.

Gold today dropped $10.20 & closed Comex at $1,631.90. Now it's true that it traded as low as $1,623.59, below my $1,630 limit, but it didn't CLOSE there, don't you know. Silver finally broke through 3100c & traded as low as 3047c. Lost 111.9c on Comex & ended at 3052.5c, but here in the aftermarket nearly four hours later it's trading around and above 3090c.

Since March I've been watching a bullish falling wedge take shape on the gold chart, so contrary to popular expectations, today neither surprised me nor cast me down. Gold could fall to $1,580 without violating that wedge's lower boundary. Recall, too that a falling wedge points to a soon-future UP move.

It grieves me to see some folks tiring out, exhausted by this long correction. Please hear me out: I have been in this frustrating place before. In two of the last corrections gold took 71 weeks and 77 weeks to reach the level where the correction began. But in that last case, that was $1,003.80 [sic] & the high for that move followed at $1,888.70 last August. If you don't pay any mind to anything else I say, write this down in that little book you carry in your shirt pocket: In price terms this bull market is hardly one-third complete.

But if you don't want to listen, you're welcome to stuff them green paper dollars in your mattress, & maybe a bunch of stock certificates, too. They make swell wall paper.

My baby silver hath also traced out a falling wedge. Here the bottom boundary stands about 2975c today, but if I draw that line slightly differently, it stands about where silver hit its low today (Arbitrary? Well, sometimes.)

Oh, silver could spend more time down here laboring in the basement, but I don't much expect it to break below 3000c, maybe to 2975c. Of course, won't many of y'all be buying while it's down here. Y'all would rather wait and buy it at 3600c, I reckon, but that's human nature.

If I am reading silver & gold wrong, I might be spectacularly wrong. Bottom might yet drop out, especially if the Great Ones Who Care For Us can't find a way to dupe us about the European crisis. But from a technical standpoint & from the longevity of the correction, and the charts, I don't believe y'all will see gigantically lower silver & gold.

Mercy! My wife just walked into the room with a bag of dried dates, apricots, & figs, which I view the same way a meth-head views meth. I have to bring this to a close.

On this day in 1900 the word "Hill-Billie" first appeared in print, in an article about the natives of the Illinois Alps.

Spain has criminalized cash business transactions over 2,500 euros (US$3,250), supposedly to catch tax cheats in its new austerity program. Hogwash! Remember what I told y'all the other day about how little paper money cash exists in this country? The cashless society isn't about convenience, it about CONTROL. Go read www.thedailybell.com/3814/Spain-Bans-Cash.

Also, read lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory246.html, "We're All Branch Davidians now." by Anthony Gregory. The government attack on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco horrified & shocked the nation, but few for the correct reason. The government's bloodthirsty attack -- killing the children to save the children, who were in no danger in the first place -- was played out to show YOU what will happen to YOU if you dare oppose them. Even after 100 years of public school brainwashing, the chance still exists that the spirit of resistance to tyranny might live in some of you yet. What's the difference between a "terrorist" and a "patriot"? Y'all tell me.

Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
Silver and gold must be bought.

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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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 trend is up, targeting 16:1 gold/silver ratio or $195.66; stock's primary trend is down, targeting Dow under 2,900 and worth only one ounce of gold or 16 ounces of silver. US$ and US$-denominated assets, primary trend down; real estate bubble has burst, primary trend down.

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Explanation of Terms

The US DOLLAR INDEX is the average exchange rate for the US dollar against the Euro, Yen, Pound sterling, Canadian Dollar, Swiss Franc, and Swedish Krona, weighted for each country's trade with the US. It gives a general measure of the US dollar's performance against all other currencies.

The DOW IN GOLD DOLLARS measures the Dow Jones Industrial Average in gold dollars (0.048375 troy oz. by law). The DiG$ depicts the Primary (20 year) Trend of stocks against gold. When the DiG$ is dropping, gold is gaining value against stocks in a trend that should last 15-20 years. The DiG$'s chart is identical to the Dow in ounces of gold, but gives us one unvarying measure all the way back to 1896. Because it shows the primary trend ("tide") of gold against stocks, for investors it is the single most important financial chart in the world today. Since its August 1999 high at G$925.42 (44.8 ounces), the DiG$ has trended down, targeting a G$80-G$20 (4-1 oz. of gold will buy the whole Dow).

The DOW IN SILVER OUNCES shows how many ounces of silver are needed to buy the entire Dow. The DiSoz is trending down with a target of under 36 ounces.

The GOLD/SILVER RATIO is the gold price divided by the silver price, and shows how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold. The Ratio shows us the Primary (20 year) Trend of gold's value against silver. When the Ratio's trend is dropping, silver is gaining value against gold. This trend targets a gold/silver ratio of 16 ounces of silver to one of gold within the next 5-10 years. That implies that silver will massively, vastly outperform gold before this bull market ends. When both metals are rallying, the ratio often (but not always) drops, confirming the rally.

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