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Let me describe for you the painful descent of an old bull after a market has topped, & y'all will have a peek into why it's so hard separate your judgment from your position.

The market suffers a top, then a big crash (stocks in May and August). Although the top screams TOP! off the page, you find eight or ten reasons to cast doubt on the fact that that really is a rounding top, and that plunging collapse really was a breakdown.

The market recovers a little, bounces back as it always does. Your heart leaps. You use that little pitty-pat dead cat bounce to wave in the face of that rounding top and plunge like a magic charm to scare them away. Market rises one more day -- your hopes are steadied, re-assured. You knew it would come back, you only had to wait.

Then you turn on the monitor the next day and it's down 4% on the open. You grab your wastebasket & puke, but still your hope prevents your selling out the position. You puke again, and wonder what you'll tell your wife.

Now this same grim, ulcerating torture follows the market all the way down, eats through all your profits, past where you bought in, now racks up real losses, but now your whole being is identified with the certainty that one day it will come back. You keep riding all the way down until the day that it bottoms, and that's the day you sell out and throw in the towel.

Don't ask me how I learned this, but it's what lies in the future for stock investors today.

Stocks rose again today, fighting with the 50 day moving averages, trying to escape that tanglefoot. Dow added 122.10 (0.73%), S&P500 gained 15.91 (0.8%) to 1,995.83. Don't bother me with counter arguments unless both of them pass by the May highs headed higher, because stocks have topped.

US dollar index barely followed stocks higher today, up 7 basis points from this time yesterday to 95.58. Nothing solid or impressive in today's chart. Remains below the 200 day moving average. Momentum is down, gravity is operational, gravity will do its work.

I expect silver or gold to take a breather here somewhere, but who am I to stand in the way of a rally? Silver gained 10.9 cents (0.7%) to 1608.8c (above 1600c!) while gold added $2.20 to $1,149.00

Clearly silver & gold are slowing here, and gold is laboring to burst through $1,150. Remember yesterday gold closed above its downtrend line from January? It did today, too, although 'twas lower at day's end. Either gold must pierce $1,150 or fall back for rest and another try.

Silver closed today above its 200 day moving average for the first time since May. Last high occurred back then at 1778c. Silver's slowing leaves the thought that it is about to pause, but the strength of this rally whispers it won't pause for long.

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

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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Market Snapshot See more charts and market data
7-Oct-15 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,149.00 2.20 0.19%
Silver, $/oz 16.09 0.11 0.68%
Gold/Silver Ratio 71.420 -0.350 -0.49%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0140 0.0001 0.49%
Platinum 944.50 11.50 1.23%
Palladium 698.15 -8.20 -1.16%
S&P 500 1,995.83 15.91 0.80%
Dow 16,912.29 122.10 0.73%
Dow in GOLD $s 304.27 1.62 0.53%
Dow in GOLD oz 14.72 0.08 0.53%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,051.24 0.47 0.04%
US Dollar Index 95.58 0.07 0.07%
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