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Now if y'all are gonna wax all fidgety & teary-eyed every time silver & gold stumble a little, y'all are gonna break down with the nervous fantods right quick. Stuff goes up, it goes down, the Nice Government Men jigger with it a bit, then it goes the way it wanted to go anyhow. Much as they want to think they are, they ain't bigger than the market.

Today silver was stepping along just fine when about 9:00 it tripped over the edge of the cliff at 1520c & plummeted to 1468 by 11:30. Comex closed down 50.8 cents down (-3.3%) at 1478.7c, exceeding my 1496c target for a 50% correction of the previous move. But that's just like silver, excitable & overdoing things one way or the other. Today's correction equalled 64.4% of the move before, close enough to a Fibonacci 61.8% to fulfill that target.

'Bout the same time the sellers hit silver they hit gold, too, and it plumb fainted at around $1,118.00, plunging all the way to $1,108.50 by 11:30. That didn't keep it down, as it shot straight up to $1,119 before closing Comex down only $1.50 (0.13%) at $1,117.10.

Aftermarket say, "Daymarket speak with forkéd tongue." Gold's at $1,118.00 and silver at 1493c. Still, there's a little more downside coming. Now's the time for y'all to start buying if y'all missed silver at 1435 & gold at $1,070.

Stocks didn't trade as ridiculously as yesterday, but simply couldn't work up enough juice to get above unchanged. Oh, the Dow did rise a little above that about 11, but then wilted all the rest of the day. Ended down 33.84 (0.19%) at 17,511.34. S&P500 lost 5.52 (0.26%) for a 2,096.92 close. Dow stopped today at its 20 day moving average. Pretty puny.

Now let us turn our gaze, however reluctantly, toward that edentulous, scrofulous, scabby, & tuberculous US dollar index. I hate it so much I bought a rhyming dictionary, to ease my heaping scorn on it. Dollar Index rose 25 basis points (0.26%) to 97.07. Reaches toward the 20 DMA (97.24) but changes nothing yet. Dollar will fall further, unless it can better 98.425. Don't bet a lot on that. Buy yourself a lottery ticket instead, it's safer.

Euro is such a stumblebum that it can't hold on to any gains, and today lost 0.43% to $1,1029 and fell back beneath its downtrend line. Ain't no helping that thing. Yen was flat at 80.40.

I like people who let you know where they stand. Sunday on the way home from Virginia Susan & I were driving through Bristol, Tennessee. Big long building on the east side of I-81 has a gigantic sign on one end: "GUNRUNNERS. Jesus is Lord. We buy guns."

Whatever they are, it ain't mealy-mouthed.

Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
Silver and gold must be bought.

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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18-Aug-15 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,117.10 -1.50 -0.13%
Silver, $/oz 14.79 -0.51 -3.32%
Gold/Silver Ratio 75.546 2.411 3.30%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0132 -0.0004 -3.19%
Platinum 992.60 -6.60 -0.66%
Palladium 596.50 -16.80 -2.74%
S&P 500 2,096.92 -5.52 -0.26%
Dow 17,511.34 -33.84 -0.19%
Dow in GOLD $s 324.05 -0.19 -0.06%
Dow in GOLD oz 15.68 -0.01 -0.06%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,184.24 37.12 3.24%
US Dollar Index 97.07 0.25 0.26%
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