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I've been rode hard & put away wet today, cause everybody in the world wanted to buy gold & silver. Hence I'll make this brief & won't be coy.

Today stocks and precious metals soundly confirmed yesterday's moves, stocks their breakdown, silver & gold their breakout toward the stars. You now have two day confirmation, & that's quite unlikely to lie.

US Dollar Index barely rose, but touched 81 again and ended up 1.3 basis points at 80.82. Hanging on ABOVE the 200 day moving average (80.65). That's bullish, yet silver & gold are rising like a junkyard magnet is pulling them upward. They have broken free and decoupled from the scrofulous dollar.

Euro sank another 0.24% to $1.2748 while the yen is raging upwards, up another 0.65% today to 125.90 cents per 100 yen. Closed above its 20 (125.80) and 200 (125.80, [sic]) day moving averages.

Stocks confirmed & re-affirmed their anti-Obama vote by dropping again today sharply. Dow lost 121.41 (0.94%) to 12,811.32 while the S&P500 lost even more, 17.02 (1.22%) go 1,377.51. Don't discount a possible dead-man surge still, that is, an illusory short rally back to 13,250, but stocks have thrown their dice & they came up snake eyes. Much more downside will follow.

Yesterday's tentative breakdown in Stocks in Gold accelerated today. Headed for Dow two ounces.

It creates a sort of illusion of solidity to quote daily metals closes from Comex because silver & gold trade 24 hours round the clock & the world. Today the aftermarket is especially vigorous, gold up $9 from the Comex close (now $1,734.67) & silver up 64 cents (3242c).

On Comex silver gained 58 cents to 3131c while gold burst through the 20 DMA & lateral resistance ($1,725) to close at $1,725.40. But it never stopped, as I said, and solidified that upside breakout in the aftermarket.

Gold closed today above its 20 DMA ($1,720.34) & reached out its hand for the 50 DMA ($1,740.29). Chart shows a clear reversal. Next resistance after $1,740 is $1,800, which gold will this time crack like a wrecking ball hitting a mobile home.

Silver, too, by day's end was trading above its 20 dma (3220c) and, having penetrated the downtrend line, has set its sights on 3550c. Can forty dollar silver be far away?

I repeat yesterday's urging: buy silver & gold now. Don't toy with this rally, because it's liable to slap you by running away. Only thing that would contradict that is a silver close below 3150c or gold below $1,720.

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8-Nov-12 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,725.40 12.20 0.71%
Silver, $/oz 31.81 0.58 1.86%
Gold/Silver Ratio 54.241 -0.617 -1.12%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0184 0.0002 1.14%
Platinum 1,538.50 3.00 0.20%
Palladium 613.55 4.00 0.66%
S&P 500 1,377.51 -17.02 -1.22%
Dow 12,811.32 -121.41 -0.94%
Dow in GOLD $s 153.49 -2.54 -1.63%
Dow in GOLD oz 7.43 -0.12 -1.63%
Dow in SILVER oz 402.75 -11.37 -2.74%
US Dollar Index 80.82 0.01 0.02%
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US 40% silver 1/2s 0.30 9,381.00 9,581.00 32.48
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