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Wednesday, 4 May a.d. 2016 Browse the commentary archive

Never disremember that currency exchange rates cannot be trusted. Why? Central banks manipulate the rates. Wherefore the extremest caution is in order when resting any decision on the direction of exchange rates, for they can abruptly reverse & cream you like mashed potatoes.

Now 'tis true that the US dollar appears to have turned up & back from the lip of hell. It posted a Key Reversal yesterday & tomorrow (regardless of the market, I'd like to add one more day's confirming close to that). But I remind y'all that on 14 April the dollar seemed to have turned, & numbrous other times I could name. If the colluding central bank criminals have agreed to let the US dollar drop much lower, they will not pull the props out all at once, lest an unseemly panic damage all scrofulous fiat currencies. Rather, they play the market like a master fisherman plays a bass, now giving him line, now taking it away, but always deceiving the poor fish, doomed for the frying pan.

I'm saying this not to alibi for falling gold & silver, merely to remind y'all that exchange rate movements are generated in wildly unpredictable political criminal central bank minds, and not in nature.

Besides, I want y'all to ruminate on something else: central banks are fast losing credibility. Now measles is not a "credible" disease in that everyone scorns it, but it can still kill you. So, before central banks breath their longed-for final stinking breath, they are still dangerous, especially when fighting for their lives. That doesn't alter, however, the metals' December change in trend from five-years-down to UP. So whatever shenanigans the CB criminals may pull, silver & gold will keep steadily rising over the next 5-8 years.

Disbelieve that at your financial peril.

Stocks keep on rolling headlong downhill. Dow lost another 99.65 (0.56%) today and closed at 17,651.26. S&P500 held hands with the Dow, losing 12.25 (0.59%) to 2,051.12.

Stocks have now fallen out of a rising wedge, broken down through their up-channel line, poked through the 20 day moving average, and perched unsteadily just above their 50 day moving averages. Can some shiny-pointy-toed-shoe Wall Streeter to 'splain to me how this is coming back? I'm such a nat'ral born durned fool I can't figger it out, bless my heart.

Gold lost $17.40 (1.35%) today for a $1,273.30 close. Low came at $1,273.60. Silver peeled off 19.7¢ (1.13%) to close Comex at 1727.7¢.

Clearly gold has topped for the moment, but aside from that brilliant observation, what do it mean?? Is this a large correction starting, or only a tee-tiny one?

Durned if I know. If it's only a small correction in a larger rally, then the correction will be short & shallow, maybe dropping to $1,245. If a larger degree correction, gold could fall to $1,200.

Today it stopped at the uptrend line from the January low. http://schrts.co/PyOpGt

Gold has everything going for it that an overbought market need to accumulate before a correction: terrible Commitments of Traders, height above 200 DMA, overbought RSI, and multitudinous hot money speculators that have piled on to take their bite out of the "inflation trade." But none of that tells me whether it will be a short or long correction, at least, not yet. Price will tell us in the next few days.

If gold is overbought, silver is overboughter, and enjoys all the drawbacks & warts of gold. However, the question remains, Will this be a large or small correction? A small one would work off the overboughtness so the rally could continue.

For right now, some indecision remains. However, both metals are entering a correction. That leaves us waiting for some turn-around signal. Keep watching.

All the Establishment's arrogant vitriol poured out of my radio this morning as National Proletarian Radio ("The Voice of Socialism in the US") addressed Donald Trump. Y'all well know I bear no love for Trump, and consider him only slightly less deadly than Hillary. Still I was amazed at their brazen bias, calling him "toxic" and "corrosive" and the "least popular candidate in history."

Made me wonder what the words "toxic" and "corrosive" mean. Mercy, if Bernie the Kindly Thief ain't "toxic", spreading class warfare, who would be? Or what could make Hillary the Cunning more "corrosive" as she stirs up class, race, and gender warfare on behalf of the Establishment?

So words mean nothing any longer, they are just propaganda pejoratives to throw at your enemy. The news has become Orwell's "Three Minute Hate." The response is the measure of the Establishment's fear of the truth. Screwball as Trump is, the long-suffering American public hears the some slight resonance of sense and national interest in what he says, and responds. Plainly the Republicans & "conservatives" follow the Establishment's agenda, not the American public's.

But I'm still warning y'all, Trump ain't what he seems.

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4-May-16 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,273.30 -17.40 -1.35%
Silver, $/oz 17.28 -0.20 -1.13%
Gold/Silver Ratio 73.699 -0.165 -0.22%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0136 0.0000 0.22%
Platinum 1,054.40 -15.70 -1.47%
Palladium 594.70 -12.40 -2.04%
S&P 500 2,051.12 -12.25 -0.59%
Dow 17,651.26 -99.65 -0.56%
Dow in GOLD $s 286.57 2.27 0.80%
Dow in GOLD oz 13.86 0.11 0.80%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,021.66 5.82 0.57%
US Dollar Index 93.19 0.26 0.28%
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