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Dear Friends, my wife Susan is suffering a lot of pain from her eye. Doctor today had to cut a stitch from her eye & scratched the eye doing it. She is clean worn out fighting pain. Would y'all please continue to pray for her?

MEDITATION: If all the world's central banks take interest rates negative, how could the Fed possibly stand against that tide? Leaving US rates positive would suck in all the capital in the world into the dollar. Why did Bloomberg report yesterday that the Fed announced it will assess the resilience of big banks to, among other conditions, negative interest rates (rate on 3 mo. Treasury bill below zero for a prolonged period). Are they merely satisfying their idle curiosity? Remember, negative rates remove the great objection to holding silver & gold, namely, they pay no interest. Under negative rates investors would have to PAY to hold bank deposits or government bonds, while holding metals would cost nothing & offer potential price rise.

I wrote the above early this morning, before the dollar's foretold weakness erupted like a boil. Dollar fell 163 basis points (1.65%) to 97.24. During the day it fell clean through all possible support and below the December low (97.21), hit the 200 day moving average (96.91), but recovered slightly to 97.24. Dollar index is as broken as it gets, with paired waterfalls in December and February. Twas a huge move, and locks earthward momentum & all indicators. Chart's at http://schrts.co/nv7KEo

Dollar's drop set off a universal re-pricing for commodities & bonds. West Texas Intermediate crude rose $4.15 (14%) to $33.86, not quite enough for a reversal but way above the 20 DMA. Close above $34.82 confirms at least a short term rally.

10 year treasury note yield dipped to new low territory, hitting the uptrend line from the July 2012 low, and reversed to close at 1.881, up 0.91% and first half of a key reversal upwards. Copper jumped 2.39% to $2.10.

Not the least of the re-pricing happened in currencies. Euro vaulted 1.76% to $1.1110, above the $1.1052 200 day moving average for the first time since October. Now has painted a believable breakout from even-sided triangle. Oh, and the yen! Nipponese Nice Government Men must be throwing hissy fits. After they thought they fixed the Yen/$ exchange rate last week, it gapped up today and closed up 1.83% at 84.91, not far from the January intraday high at 86.06. Saved its rally.

Stocks wavered, scratched their heads, & then decided to rise. Dow climbed 183.12 (1.13%) to 16,336.66, back above the 20 DMA. But performance across indices oddly contradicted itself. S&P500 rose not 1.13% but only 0.5% or 9.5 to 1,912.53. Small cap Russell 2000 rose 0.14%, and the Nasdaq & Nasdaq 100 fell, 0.28% and 0.5%. That don't smell good, but at day's end the Big Two closed higher.

On Comex silver rose 44.4¢ to 1472¢, up 3.1%. Gold rose $14.00 or 1.2% to $1,141.30.

These breakouts smash my breakout requirements, 1465¢ & $1,128-$1,132. Strong & vigorous, they confirm each other. More, platinum rose 2.9% and palladium 5.4%. Gold has risen through its 200 DMA for the first time since October, and on rising volume. Silver's volume EXPLODED, from 30,250 contracts yesterday to 62,071 today.

Yet carp I still. Been fooled too many times. I want to see at least a 3% confirmation of these breakouts, that is, gold over $1,128 + 3% or $1,162 and silver over 1509¢. Call it 1513¢, cause that's where the 200 DMA presently resideth.

Here are the charts, and they are stunning: http://schrts.co/tSOxTG and http://schrts.co/VAFYOi

For a metals rally the gold/silver ratio needs to fall as well. Today it hit the bottom boundary of the rising trading channel that has entrapped it since October. Closed today below its 20 AND 50 DMA. Appears ready to drop out of the channel. A close below 76.50 tomorrow will clinch that.

This is exactly the sort of breakout move in metals that I've been looking for. BIG doin's. Gotta buy breakouts.

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
3-Feb-16 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,141.30 14.00 1.24%
Silver, $/oz 14.72 0.44 3.11%
Gold/Silver Ratio 77.534 -1.431 -1.81%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0129 0.0002 1.85%
Platinum 878.80 24.40 2.86%
Palladium 516.85 26.25 5.35%
S&P 500 1,912.53 9.50 0.50%
Dow 16,336.66 183.12 1.13%
Dow in GOLD $s 295.90 -0.32 -0.11%
Dow in GOLD oz 14.31 -0.02 -0.11%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,109.83 -21.69 -1.92%
US Dollar Index 97.24 -1.63 -1.65%
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US 40% silver 1/2s 0.30 4,203.75 4,365.75 14.80
100 oz .999 bar 100.00 1,490.00 1,515.00 15.15
10 oz .999 bar 10.00 148.00 153.00 15.30
1 oz .999 round 1.00 14.75 15.21 15.21
Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 16.15 17.40 17.40
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PLATINUM Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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