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Monday, 27 July a.d. 2015 Browse the commentary archive

Ever wake up like Rip Van Winkle wiping the cobwebs from you eyes & wondering what on earth got hold of you? I feel that way today, looking at markets. What on earth have I been thinking about? Stocks have rolled over. That May high was most likely the high for the entire bull phase (spawned by the Fed's QE). The present deflationary scare will pass, the dollar will fail & resume its downward progress toward zero, & central banks will surely shoot their only weapon: the inflation gun. And one more thing: the goofs in central banks & governments who believe they are Masters of the Universe, ain't. Gravity still works, truth will avenge itself economically on corrupt politics, and chickens still come home to roost. (What was that stuff those little men gave me to drink while we were bowling?)

Ponder stocks first. No longer can the damage be hidden. The Dow lost another 127.94 (0.73%) today to 17,440.59 & has traced out a gigantic rounding top. Today's close was lower than July's earlier low close (17,466). It is trading way below its 200 day moving average (DMA, 17,750). There's another little internal broadening top traced out since March, & the Dow is about to break down out of that. http://schrts.co/ACYUIU Owch! I forgot to mention that the Dow is now 384.5 points below its 2014 close, and 871.4 points below its 19 May high.

S&P500 today lost 12.01 (0.58%) to 2,067.64. Skidded to a halt today three points from its 200 DMA (2,064.13). Still 9 points above its 2014 close. After it breaks that 2,039 March low, the fleas will begin jumping off the rats & the rats will be jumping ship.

Wait! Did I forget to mention that in China, where the government now openly buys stocks to support the market, the Shanghai market posted its biggest daily loss since 2007? How did I overlook that?

Dow in gold has retraced nearly all its "throwover" final top. That took it to 16.504 oz but today it closed at 15.91 oz. Working off an oversold RSI, falling Rate of Change, overbought stochastics, & a downturning MACD. Look: http://schrts.co/OSP9vT

What about the Dow in silver? The throwover there was less than gold's, but it, too, has plunged, from 1,236.37 oz to 1,201.97 today.

US dollar index tumbled again today, right badly, down 73 basis points (0.75%) to 96.61, cutting through its 20 DMA (96.89). Will drop further. Maybe by mid-August its tank will have finally run dry.

Not that the euro offers any more solace or safety. If the US dollar's sorry as a three-legged mule, what about the euro? It's a three-legged twenty-eight-pede! Gained today 1.06% to $1.1090. That is above its 20 DMA, at least, but until the euro crosses $1.1150, it hasn't even begun to rally. Yen gapped up on dollar weakness, too, plus 0.38% to 81.11 cents/Y100 (Y123=US$1).

Gold closed Comex at 1,096.50, $10.90 or 1% higher than Friday. Silver added 11.7 cents (0.8%) for a 1459.4c close.

Remember Friday I was watching the first half of a key reversal in the End of Day chart, but gold did not close the EOD higher today, so that reversal was not completed & verified.

But look at this. Gold's new commitment of traders reports shows large speculators (the dumb money) with historically low long positions & commercials (the smart money) with barely any shorts.

Silver's CoTs look bullish, too. Commercials have few shorts and large speculatorsfew longs. Also bullish.

On the 5 day chart gold shows a rounded bottom with a surge up through $1,090 on Friday, a rise to $1,105 today, then a plunge to test $1,090 support -- a test gold passed, and rose to end the day about $1,095. Unless gold breaks $1,090, Friday was the bottom.

Silver's chart also shows a low Friday, but a V-bottom, a higher high early today with a test of 1455 cents -- also passed. Silver must hold 1440c. (Remember it's much more volatile than gold).

None of reading markets is metrically precise, it's an art. That's why I try to give you a band of prices that both confirms and explodes any forecast. As long as we don't break $1,090 and 1440c, Friday was the low. I already bought on Friday, so I'm set. What about y'all? Bear in mind that when markets turn around, those universally scorned rise all the faster.

Bless his heart! On 27 July 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first tobacco to England from Virginia. All those self righteous folks who natter about smokers & second hand smoke, yakety-yak, need to put up their feet and light a really fine Dominican cigar & inhale. That'll shut 'em up.

Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
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— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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Market Snapshot See more charts and market data
27-Jul-15 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,096.50 10.90 1.00%
Silver, $/oz 14.59 0.12 0.81%
Gold/Silver Ratio 75.134 0.146 0.19%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0133 -0.0000 -0.19%
Platinum 990.50 8.10 0.82%
Palladium 612.10 -9.50 -1.53%
S&P 500 2,067.64 -12.01 -0.58%
Dow 14,440.59 -127.94 -0.88%
Dow in GOLD $s 272.24 -5.17 -1.86%
Dow in GOLD oz 13.17 -0.25 -1.86%
Dow in SILVER oz 989.49 -16.83 -1.67%
US Dollar Index 96.61 -0.73 -0.75%
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