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Thursday, 23 January a.d. 2014 Browse the commentary archive

Lots of surprises today. Whether bad or good depends on what you own.

Stocks finally made good on the Dow's nagging refusal to confirm the other indices. Dow fell like your car keys sinking down a well when you bent over to look at your reflection & they slipped out of your shirt pocket. Sliced into its 50 DMA (16,153) but ended down only 175.99 (1.07%) at 16,197.35. All other indices tumbled, too. S&P500 lost 16.4 (0.89%) to 1,828.46. That took the S&P500 way below its 20 DMA at 1,838, & turns momentum gravityward for stocks.

I'm not one to say "I told y'all so" unless severely provoked, and today one does the job. I believe I told y'all back on the 10th that the Dow's MACD had flashed a sell signal. With those lower tops that warned "Trouble coming!"

Today's stock dive sent the Dow in Metals down, down. & gave the breakdown I've been looking for. Dow in Gold ended at 12.81 oz (G$264.81 gold dollars), down 3.24%, below the 13.05 oz 50 DMA and punching through the lower channel line. Chart is here, http://bit.ly/1atJjFJ

Silver was lazier than gold today, so the Dow in Silver, although it lost 2.14% to 809.67 oz, only barely broke its 50 DMA (810.73) and didn't quite fall out of the channel. Tomorrow. See chart here, http://bit.ly/1aNxmIJ

Big surprise (for me) today was the rotten performance of the loathsome US dollar index. Lost 78 basis points (0.96%) to 80.51, undoing two week's work and closing below its 20 & 50 DMA. Tripped by good European economic statistics. Triggered an MACD sell signal. Euro gapped up 1.1% to $1.3694, closing back within the channel it had fallen out of and above its 50 & 20 DMAs. Go figure. Yen jumped too, up to the 50 DMA by a long step. Uptrend now established.

Gold closed Comex $23.6 (1.9%) higher at $1,262.60. This is slightly higher than where it faded ($1,262) day before yesterday. Today's move gainsays and negates the key reversal of the last two days, and ALMOST takes gold above its December $1,267.50 high. It also carries it to the top of its Bollinger Band, so it needs to hit the gas here or fall back. Today's show suggests it will hit the gas & accelerate its rally.

Silver had a weird day. It hit 2031 cents at the high, but settled Comex at only 1998.1, up 0.8% or 17.2 cents. Makes little sense with gold so strong. However, it places silver back above its 20 (1993c) and 50 (1994c) DMAs, turns momentum up, and leaves me generally felling warm & fuzzy.

Nevertheless, silver must cross 2050c or it's all just warm fuzzies amounting to nothing but . . . warm fuzzies. Them you can't take to the bank.

To prove a rally, ideally gold will close well above $1,267 tomorrow and silver above 2050c. Not so ideally, to maintain its rally gold needs to close above $1,262. Any close above $1,251.70 gives it five higher weeks in a row.

There's more, but I don't want to overload y'all. In the face of a stock market puking it its wastebasket the gold stock indices rose smartly. XAU up 2.48%, GDX up 2.73%, HUI up 2.7%. Breakout for the HUI above its downtrend line from August.

Very encouraging day for silver & gold. Not so hot for stocks & the loathsome dollar.

On 24 January a.d. 41, shortly after declaring himself a God, the roman emperor Caligula is assassinated by two Praetorian tribunes. Whoops. That didn't work.

On 24 January 1848 James Wilson Marshall discovered gold at his partner Johann August Sutter's sawmill on the South Fork of the American River near Coloma, California. It was yet another gold discovery that cheapened gold against silver and snet the international gold/silver ratio further down.

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Market Snapshot See more charts and market data
23-Jan-14 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,262.60 23.60 1.90%
Silver, $/oz 19.98 0.17 0.87%
Gold/Silver Ratio 63.190 0.643 1.03%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0158 -0.0002 -1.02%
Platinum 1,461.70 0.80 0.05%
Palladium 745.00 -2.95 -0.39%
S&P 500 1,844.86 1.06 0.06%
Dow 16,197.35 -175.99 -1.07%
Dow in GOLD $s 265.19 -7.99 -2.92%
Dow in GOLD oz 12.83 -0.39 -2.92%
Dow in SILVER oz 810.64 -15.92 -1.93%
US Dollar Index 80.50 -0.78 -0.96%
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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).

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