Markets are all a-bubble today with Mother Janet Yellen's comments late Friday and the Chinese Central Bank president's comments. Both were more of the same nonsense, Yellen promising higher interest rates somewhere in the future, and the Chinese CB's president threatening more inflation. I am reminded of what Danish CB's head Lars Rohde said on 4 February about defending the Danish Kroner's peg to the euro: "There is no limit to how low rates can go and how large foreign currency reserves can grow . . . Either we can expand our balance sheet or we can go deeper into negative territory with interest rates . . . We can go on forever."

Well, Mr. & Mrs. Masters of the Universe, "forever" is a long time. Y'all may be used to pushing markets around with the breath of your mouth, but in the end, you're just bad breath and when y'all need the Certs, y'all won't be able to find 'em. Hogbreath. All bluff & hogbreath.

All the same, stocks jumped today, especially the dollar, I reckon 'cause Yellen gave the gamblers a second wind. It rose 81 basis points (0.83%) to 98.32. Technically that places the dollar above the 20 DMA, and the half-way line of its trading channel. Also might mark a breakout thru the downtrend line.

Euro did what you expect, it fainted again, back to its 20 DMA. Lost 0.71% to $1.0815. Simply can't get any rally working. Yen gapped down today, 0.84% to 83.23. Looked for news, but couldn't find any. It just took a notion to drop.

But notice the volatility in the currency markets as well as stocks. This is the result of the Masters of the Universe breath blowing across them. Anybody think that improves on nature? Raise your hand.

Dow leapt 263.65 (1.49%) to 17,976.31, and up 25.22 (1.22%) jumped the S&P500 to 2,086.24.

If you take a string & stretch it from the 2 March high across the 23 March highs, you get a downtrend with two lower highs and two lower lows. So until stocks burst through that line, tomorrows about 18,180, they are still trending down, no matter what the hogreath volatility from day to day.

Stocks' strength and metals' weakness today sent the Dow in Gold & Dow in silver bouncing up sharply. Dow in gold gained 2.64% to G$313.59 gold dollars (15.17 oz). Dow in silver jumped up 3.29% to S$1,393.91 silver dollars (1,078.10 oz.).

SO? Trend has not changed, outlook remains unchanged. Stocks appear to have peaked against silver & gold.

Gold lost $15.00 today & shuttered Comex at $1,184.80; silver gave up 35.9 cents to 1665.70.

Clearly on Friday I didn't scrutinize the charts closely enough for downside gargets. Let's try that again. Gold is likely to hit $1,170 on a correction, & silver might stop at 1660c but could drop to 1620c.

Interesting that volume dropped off for both metals today, very sharply for gold. That suggests there's not much power behind the selling. Correction will likely last all this week.

Be patient, be patient.

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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).

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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