It's complicated. I reckon it's always complicated, & today got more complicated. In a word, "Dollar index may have broken out to the upside, as well as stocks; higher dollar will reveal how stubbornly silver & gold are determined to rise." First, look at this US dollar index chart, http://schrts.co/QHFePt The dollar index formed a falling wedge from mid-March until yesterday. Wedges generally resolve by breaking out opposite the direction they point. Today the dollar index rose 82 basis points (0.87%) to 94.76, enough to poke unabashedly through the wedge's top boundary. MACD & RSI also witness a reversal upward. What can happen? IF the dollar index can confirm the breakout by piercing the 20 DMA (94.96), then it will run for the 50 DMA (96.22). Before that comes important resistance at 92.25, so watch that. Yesterday I mentioned that a falling dollar occasions upward re-pricing in all assets. When the dollar rises, we'll find out which assets were merely passively re-pricing, and which mean to rise and no matter the dollar. On a good quarterly earnings report from JP Morgan, stocks rose, especially bank stocks, dog of dogs, cat of cats, rotten stock of all rotten stocks. Investors ignored a report from US banking regulators that failed 5 of 8 big banks on their plans for a bankruptcy that would not rely on taxpayer money. Among the five failers was, of course, JP Morgan. Ponder the Bank Stock Index ($BKX), here, http://schrts.co/sAeVt2 $BKX gapped up & closed above the 20 DMA. That didn't draw my eye as much as the two preceding tops at the same point, causing to echo off the walls of my cranium the market proverb, "Double tops hold, triple tops don't." Also, the MACD is striving to turn up. Seems awfully late in this stock rally for bank stocks to be so juiced, but nobody ever got rich arguing with charts. Another day's higher close will send the $BKX toward the 200 DMA, now at 70.46. None of this happens in a vacuum. Remember that monetary demand for gold, the real driver of the gold price, feeds on distrust of financial markets, while the $BKX feeds of trust in same. Here's the Gold/$BKX spread, http://schrts.co/WBD5zq Mark the gap today as it fell down ($BKX rose faster than gold). Mark that it nearly reached the last low at 18.63. Mark that the MACD has turned down. Bottom line? Gold/$BKX must turn around, and soon, or stocks in general will suck money away from gold. This may be a Last Hurrah for bank stocks & stocks, but that theory must be validated by a lower $BKX tomorrow and higher Gold/BKX. A similar conundrum appears in stocks. Dow gained 187.03 (1.06%) today to close at 17,908.28. S&P500 gathered 20.7 (1%) to 2,082.42. For both indices that posts a new high for the rally that began mid-February, a long-in-the-tooth rally that had appeared to be rolling over. Fluke, or will the rally extend? Gravity beckons strongly, but a higher close tomorrow would send stocks higher still. I look at the charts of the Dow in Gold and Dow in Silver & see unequivocal downturns from the upward correction. They argue strongly against higher stocks. Gold backed off $12.60 (1%) to $1,246.80. Silver gainsaid and went her own way, rising 10.3¢ (0.6%) to 1632.3¢ I am struggling, wrestling with this, because every bit of this says, "YAHOO! We're marching higher." Oh, gold backed off? Right, but only to the top of that $1,240-$1,245 resistance/support. Perfect: a touchback before take-off. Stayed above the 20 DMA. Has broken out of a triangle to the upside, go look, http://schrts.co/IG5nzx On the other side, the RSI an MACD are a little queasy. Silver has closed two days above the last high (1617¢) confirming its intention to climb higher. Here's a different chart, http://schrts.co/D2sR3W If we draw a trading channel (green dashed lines), silver has hit the upper boundary. Far more important, though, is that silver has crossed above its downtrend line form the April 2011 high. Normally a bounce back away from a channel boundary will follow, but since silver is punching into that very, very long term downtrend line, It might push ahead. I'm worried that gravity will take it, but fretting that it might reach escape velocity. Odds probably favor a short correction. Those odds become stronger if the dollar index manages to keep climbing. I reckon there ain't nothing sacred, nor nothing Americans can't industrialize to tasteless mush. In Germany, delectable Havarti cheese smells like rotten feet, but tastes like heaven. Only a person wholly bleaf (lacking all sense of smell) could mistake Havarti for any other cheese in the world. Hate it or love it, 'tis a Real Thing. Night before last we had a substance Susan had bought at Sam's labeled "Danish Havarti." A libel on Denmark & on Havarti. A libel on cheese. Think white colored Velveeta. No taste at all, vaguely cheesy texture, so artificial I don't believe flies would land on it. What is it about the American food industry, that they have to Velveeta-ize all the taste out of everything? I won't eat that slop.
Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
Silver and gold must be bought.
— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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