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Today's stock market action proved that last week's stock rally was all vine and no taters. Dow plunged 470.01 (2.84%) to 16,058.02 while the S&P500 slid 58.25 (2.95%) to 1,913.93.

Stocks opened and slid 400 points, plump! Balance of the day they traded sideways & lower without any enthusiasm or sign of recovery. Of course, they made no move to go lower, either, but then, after falling 450 points, they didn't really need to.

With silver & gold steady, today's stock dive took the Dow in Gold for another attempt at drowning. It lost 3.34% to close at G$291.27 gold dollars (14.09 troy ounces). 200 DMA floats above at G$310.08 (15.00 oz). Here's the chart, http://schrts.co/8Sv0tc

The Dow in Silver fell S$43.53 (33.67 ounces) or 2.97% to S$1,420.13 silver dollars (1,098.38 oz), slap down against the uptrend line from August 2013 and below the 200 DMA (S$1,426.37 or 1,103.21 oz). Watch the last low at S$1,381.69 (1,068.65 oz), the last low. An acceleration is coming. http://schrts.co/ohwLZP

Scabby US dollar index closed beneath the downtrend line (from the August high at 98.43) and below 95.50 support. It lost 43 basis points (0.45%) to end at 95.43.

It would clear up the entire cosmic situation if the dollar would close below 93, giving us an equivocal "I am going to hell in a handbasket so don't look for no survivors" signal. As long as it stays above the 200 dma (now 94.86), can't be sure what it intends. Don't let this meditation take your eyes off the present trend, which is firmly down.

Euro rose 0.79% to $1.1300, but remains below its 200 DMA ($1.1332). This may technically be an uptrend, but if so it was born tard and raised lazy. No gumption, but then why should it have? Who but an insane speculator using borrowed money could find in the euro anything to love?

Yen looks better than the euro as a nearly dead man looks better than a corpse. It did gap up through its 200 DMA today 1.25% to 83.50. Maybe this time 'twill find some traction.

WTIC slowed its upward trajectory today with an 8.24% fall to $44.19/barrel. It is above its 20 dma (42.65) but hit the 50 DMA yesterday after rising 27% in 3 days. That accounts for today's ricochet. 200 DMA is above at 53.68. Copper is also trying to break out skyward. By the way, that 3 days is the oil market's biggest jump in 25 years.

Gold gained $7.10 (0.6%) to close Comex at $1,138.70. Silver inched up 3.6 cents (0.25%) to 1461.3c.

Gold is slowly but steadily gaining. Today it left the 50 DMA (1,129.97) behind as it moved up, but stopped cold when it hit the support/resistance line at $1,150 from the November low through the March low. That was also where gold broke down in July. Real test will come at the last high ($1,170) where gold failed.

Silver lies behind the eight ball. Yes, last week it made a new low & then a key reversal upwards, but it still is lollygagging below its 20 (1493c) & 50 (1505c) day moving averages. And it is rising on declining volume, which is like watching your gas guage needle drop.

I am not particularly thrilled, either, to see the Comex close Gold/Silver Ratio at 77.924. Silver is weak against gold right now, & any further weakness would send the ratio even higher.

Silver & gold are both acting mealy-mouthed when they need to show some brass. At least the dropping dollar adds something in their favor.

On 1 September 1715 Louis XIV of France, the Sun King, died after reigning 72 years. His thirst for show left France bankrupt. Trying to escape that bankruptcy a few years later, the regent the Duke of Orleans listened to the schemes of Scottish adventurer John Law and gave Law a charter for a bank. Law's bank, which functioned like a central bank, and stock market manipulations led to a hyperinflation and stock market boom & collapse. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

On 1 September 1870 Napoleon III was captured at the Battle of Sedan. It was the end of his empire.

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

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1-Sep-15 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,138.70 7.10 0.63%
Silver, $/oz 14.61 0.04 0.25%
Gold/Silver Ratio 77.924 0.295 0.38%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0128 -0.0000 -0.38%
Platinum 1,007.60 -2.50 -0.25%
Palladium 578.50 -23.05 -3.83%
S&P 500 1,913.93 -58.25 -2.95%
Dow 16,058.02 -740.01 -4.41%
Dow in GOLD $s 291.52 -15.35 -5.00%
Dow in GOLD oz 14.10 -0.74 -5.00%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,098.89 -53.48 -4.64%
US Dollar Index 95.43 -0.45 -0.47%
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