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If the object of the FOMC manipulation was to drive down the euro against the dollar, it worked today. Euro dropped 0.75% to $1.3186, while the US dollar index (about half comprised of the euro) rose 0.5% or 39.2 basis points to 81.475. The euro gapped down and closed beneath its 62 day moving average. Euro's momentum indicators are screaming in freefall. Test will come about $1.3150. If it falls thru that, 'twill fall much more, say to the 200 DMA at $1.2827. More bad economic news out of Europe today will speed that fall. Surprise. European economy is not recovering. Euro fell 1.21% against the yen.

Yen gained 0.45% today to close at 107.38 cents per 100 yen. For better than two weeks the yen has traded sideways, but now has risen high enough to approach its 20 DMA (108.04) & the first sign of a reversal.

US Dollar index's close yesterday took it above the 200 DMA (80.92). Today it added to that gain 39.2 more basis points to end at 81.475. Dollar index has a minimum of 82 targeted, and perhaps higher. Of course, given the hyperactive Nice Government Men, that could change at any time.

The day wasn't kind to stocks. The Dow broke 13,900 to close down 46.92 (0.34%) at 13,880.62. The day was less kind to the S&P500, which lost 9.53 or 0.63%, closing at 1,502.42.

Right now 13,800 is the magic number for the Dow. It must hold that or tumble at least another 150 points.

AHA! Both the Dow in Gold & the Dow in Silver gapped down today, leaving yesterday's high isolated above & looking much like an island reversal. If so, both ought to follow through with lower closes tomorrow.

If confirmed, that implies stocks have peaked against silver & gold, and will cheapen against them.

From the Comex closes today, you'd think silver & gold had stayed home in bed today. Gold closed up sixty cents (spell it out it's so small) at $1,578.20 while silver gained eight cents to 2869.5c. However, other charts don't tell that story.

Overnight gold hit a lower low, about $1,558 but from midnight forward (NYC time) rallied as high as $1,584.70. This has the look of a key reversal.

What's that? When a market trades into new low ground for the move, then closes the day higher, that's the first half of a key reversal. Second and necessary half is a higher close the next day, i.e., tomorrow. All this plainly shows on an EOD (End of the Day) chart. See http://bit.ly/SoDA5t With sentiment dragging the bottom, the RSI at a 12 year low, and gold trading below its lower Bollinger Band, gold is screaming time to slam it into reverse.

But screaming won't change gears. That takes market action, and I want to see some proof, like higher closes tomorrow for both silver & gold.

Silver looks much the same as gold, but didn't quite make a lower low today. Hit 2832c at the bottom and 2884.2c at the high.

However, silver's three day chart shows a double bottom yesterday and today, and a rise out of that bottom most of the day. Needs to close above 2884c tomorrow to make that look like a bottom.

Be patient. Better days are coming soon, as long as silver & gold don't close below the last two days' lows. Let's watch.

Quote of the day, from Steve Saville at www.speculative-investor.com. "Although the markets have gone much further than we anticipated, it's important to bear in mind that the more a rubber band gets stretched the less the potential for it to be stretched further and the greater the potential for a snap-back. You may not want to bet heavily on the timing of the inevitable snap-back, but you should at least be prepared for it."

On 21 February 1848 was published the in London the Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. This dismal document contained ten planks or goals, all of which have subsequently been realized & installed in the United States. They include

1. Abolition of property in land, etc. (If they

can sell your property for taxes, you don't own it.)

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance (inheritance tax)

(If they can tax it, it's not a right.)

4. Confiscation of all property of emigrants & rebels

(Rebel & watch what they do with your property.

They did it to us all over the South, & still are.)

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state

by means of a national bank with state capital

& an exclusive monopoly (the Federal Reserve &

all the Government Sponsored Enterprises that loan

money, from Fannie & Freddy on down.)

6. Centralization of communication & transport in the State.

(Maybe y'all haven't heard of the FCC, FAA, ICC,

Department of Transportation?)

7. Extension of factories & productive facilities owned

owned by the state; bringing waste lands into

cultivation and improving the soil according

to a common plan (Dept. of Agriculture, Energy, GSEs )

8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of

industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

(Industrial armies were created during the New Deal: CCC, WPA)

9. Combining agriculture with manufacturing

(industrialization of agriculture, already happened);

abolishing distinction between town & country

by a more equable distribution of the populace.

(Government policy has redistributed rural

populace into urban areas)

10. Free education for all children in public schools.

Abolition of child factory labor, and combination

of education with industrial production.

(Y'all have public schools where you live?

Department of Education? Community or Tech schools?)

Now that's the bad news. The good news is it doesn't matter where we start abolishing, it will help restore freedom. And y'all thought I was just joking when I called 'em communists!

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21-Feb-13 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,578.20 0.60 0.04%
Silver, $/oz 28.70 0.08 0.28%
Gold/Silver Ratio 54.999 -0.133 -0.24%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0182 0.0000 0.24%
Platinum 1,618.90 -27.10 -1.65%
Palladium 733.20 -2.80 -0.38%
S&P 500 1,502.42 -9.53 -0.63%
Dow 13,880.62 -46.20 -0.33%
Dow in GOLD $s 181.81 7.50 4.30%
Dow in GOLD oz 8.80 0.36 4.30%
Dow in SILVER oz 483.73 -2.97 -0.61%
US Dollar Index 81.48 0.39 0.48%
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