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If what stocks did today was called a "rally," some mighty bad juju lies in the future.

After reaching an early high of 16,171, the Dow sawed lower & lower until it hit a low of 15,900 about 3:00. Right about then, "friends" entered the market to buy, buy, buy & it ended up 27.94 (0.17%) at 16,016.02, squeaking above the 16,000 morale busting mark. Yeah, that's what happened, and the Nice Government Men on the Plunge Protection Team didn't have to lift an index finger or push a BUY button, the market just fixed itself.

After a like performance, the S&P500 ended up one (1.00) point at 1,881.33. (If y'all want to view daily charts of the major stock indices, go to nasdaq.com.)

Stocks locked in a third wave down I reckon. Fall will accelerate.

Dow in gold fishhooked up from a new low yesterday at 14.69 oz, & rose top 14.73 oz. Headed for deeps of the earth. Dow in silver fell 0.61% to 1,142.37 troy ounces. Now below the 200 DMA (1,148.29 oz). Nothing in those charts gainsays my conclusions that they double peaked in the summer and December. Picture in your mind Cassandra, wild look in her reddened eyes, tangled hair filling the air around her head, racing down Wall Street barefooted screaming, "The Dow in Gold & Dow in Silver warn of lower stock prices soon!" True to the curse that rests on her, she always prophesies the truth, yet none believe her.

US dollar still looks sickly. Rose 17 basis points today to 99.17, but that's right on the upper boundary of the even-sided triangle it has formed since the year opened. A close below 98.5 shatters the triangle downside, a close below 98 trumpets trouble for the buck.

Euro fell 0.5% to $1.0906, just as lazy and feckless as ever. Yen lost 0.56% today to 85.00, which sounds like a bad lick unless you know it made a new high close for the move yesterday at 85.47. Rise much more, & the yen rally gets out of hand. All the safe haven bid is flowing to the yen.

On Comex, where the black shirts take no prisoners, gold lost $1.60 (0.15%) to $1,089.90 but silver gainsaid that fall with a 22.6¢ rise to 1411¢.

Shenanigans returned to the metals' markets today after a flat day yesterday. In what I have to call an incomprehensible daily chart, gold gapped up a little after 3:00 a.m. Eastern from $1,089 to $1,092.5, traced out an island sideways, then gapped down from $1,092 to $1,087. After one more foray toward $1,082 before the US market opened, it turned up and steadily but gently rose the rest of the day.

Silver did the same, only more so. It gapped up from 1398¢ to 1419¢ -- gapped, as in no trading between those numbers. Formed an island, then gapped down about 5:00 a.m. from 1412¢ to 1405¢, & crabbed upwards rest of the day.

Those big gaps should signal clusters of stop orders -- or something else. Silver & gold keep slamming from one side of the range to the other, but I take as positive silver's better performance than gold's.

Surprising as it sounds, gold remains above its 20 & 50 DMAs & barely after $1,088 support/resistance. Silver daily keeps tapping on the ceiling above. Volume is rising, suggesting silver is gaining strength as it climbs.

Metals still need to prove their upward intention with closes above 1440¢ & $1,113. Frustrating as this range trading may be, it is constructing a base from which silver & gold can launch a rally. The wait shall not be prolonged.

Today I am observing Lee-Jackson Day, in honor of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson. Of Lee it was said that he is "without any exception the very greatest of all the great captains that the English speaking peoples have produced." He was a Christian man of the purest conduct and thought.

Jackson was a quirky genius. Orphaned as a child, he graduated from West Point & proved his mettle in the Mexican War (as did Lee). When the War broke out he was teaching at Virginia Military Academy, and no one suspected what genius hid in him. His faith in God became famous to all who fought with him. General Ewell once burst into his tent at night and was surprised to see & hear Jackson praying. He later said, "If that is religion, I must have it." Before the War Jackson established a Sunday School for slaves at the Lexington Presbyterian Church, and even during the war always asked anxiously about their progress. He died at the height of victory after Chancellorsville, God granting his prayer that he not outlive the independence of his country.

Deo vindice!

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
19-Jan-16 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,089.90 -1.60 -0.15%
Silver, $/oz 14.11 0.23 1.63%
Gold/Silver Ratio 77.243 -1.373 -1.75%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0129 0.0002 1.78%
Platinum 828.70 3.00 0.36%
Palladium 496.80 9.85 2.02%
S&P 500 1,881.33 1.00 0.05%
Dow 16,016.02 27.94 0.17%
Dow in GOLD $s 303.77 0.97 0.32%
Dow in GOLD oz 14.69 0.05 0.32%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,135.08 -16.46 -1.43%
US Dollar Index 99.19 0.17 0.17%
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