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A reader called me yesterday after reading Bob Moriarty's article about swapping gold for platinum. The article is here, http://bit.ly/2909qXR If y'all think swapping gold for platinum is a good idea, remember we help keep your transaction costs LOW because we charge commission on one side of the trade only. Whatever you take out we charge at our cost.

Brexit froze markets again today, but not stocks. They rose on the open, evidencing that investors had decided Brexit would fail. (I refuse to address their presumed belief that EU membership is good for the British economy, on grounds that my mind is too fastidious to sully with such nonsense. While a pan-European trade zone might be a great idea, the expensive, tyrannical EU bureaucracy vigorously squanders any advantage.)

Dow ended the day up $230 (1.29%) at 18,011.07. S&P500 gained 27.87 (1.34%) to 2,113.32. Take a picture, folks: this is as good as it gets. What new rabbit remains to be pulled out of the hat? Somewhere out there, not far, is a cliff, waiting for stocks to stumble over its edge.

Markets deciding they needed no safe haven after all sent the US dollar index down to a new low for the move. At its worst it hit 93.03, but closed at 93.53, down only 23 basis points (0.25%). Since this was a new intraday low, it pretty much decapitates any idea of a rally in the dollar index. It has made two lower highs and two lower lows. Now it's heading for that critical 92.50 level again.

Euro rose 0.6% to $1.1382. This is a slightly lower high than the last. Euro would have to close above $1.1574 to turn its trend seriously up. And we found out today that safe haven buying was furnishing all the demand under the yen. It fell a huge 2.07% to 93.63. Y'all look at this chart, http://schrts.co/UuqBFa

It gapped up off the May low, gapped again mid June, painted a sideways island for five days, then gapped down again today. This completes an island reversal, but it needs to be confirmed tomorrow by a lower close.

Gold closed Comes $6.60 lower at 41,261.20. Silver in fact rose 4.3¢ to 1734.8¢. In the aftermarket gold backed down to $1,258.60 and silver hardly backed off at all, only 2.8¢ to 1732¢.

If the picture for stocks is as good as it gets, for gold it's as bad as it gets. Maybe there's a day or two of follow up washout, but it will simply complete this short correction.

What grabs my jaws & makes me look is the gold/silver ratio, DOWN today from 73.274 yesterday to 72.700 -- 72.667 if you look at the aftermarket. Folks, if silver & gold are weak, that just ain't right. That ratio does not weaken when metals are weak, it strengthens. Okay, one swallow doth not a spring make nor one roach an infestation, nor one day's trading a trend, but it is a harbinger.

Today gold closed the day (not Comex) right at its 50 day moving average ($1,259.24). The 20 DMA lieth right beside it at $1,259.01. A retreat to the 50 DMA is enough to qualify as a shallow correction. Now that this Brexit kerfuffle is out of the way, we'll find out what gold's made of.

I see where some Democratic representatives staged a sit-in in the House of Representatives. Apparently they were pouting because they didn't get the gun control they want. When adults in the chamber of one of the world's greatest nations act like children, the country is becoming ungovernable.

Y'all can talk about rights all you want, but if government gets the guns, you won't have any more rights than a road-killed cat. What do you think holds the tyrants back from doing even WORSE things? They simply don't know where 200 million weapons are, or if the folks who own them will use them. As long as those guns are out there, government is restrained. The guns don't even have to be used, they just have to be there, so they might be used.

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23-Jun-16 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,261.20 -6.60 -0.52%
Silver, $/oz 17.35 0.04 0.25%
Gold/Silver Ratio 72.700 -0.562 -0.77%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0138 0.0001 0.77%
Platinum 965.90 -17.20 -1.75%
Palladium 568.25 4.00 0.71%
S&P 500 2,113.32 27.87 1.34%
Dow 18,011.07 230.00 1.29%
Dow in GOLD $s 295.21 5.29 1.82%
Dow in GOLD oz 14.28 0.26 1.82%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,038.22 10.71 1.04%
US Dollar Index 93.53 -0.23 -0.25%
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GOLD Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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Aust. 100 corona 0.98 1,227.51 1,236.51 1,261.49
British sovereign 0.24 298.50 311.50 1,323.26
French 20 franc 0.19 236.74 240.74 1,289.46
Krugerrand 1.00 1,268.67 1,278.67 1,278.67
Maple Leaf 1.00 1,268.60 1,282.60 1,282.60
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SILVER Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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VG+ Peace dollar 0.77 17.50 20.00 26.14
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US 40% silver 1/2s 0.30 4,991.40 5,153.40 17.47
100 oz .999 bar 100.00 1,757.00 1,782.00 17.82
10 oz .999 bar 10.00 174.70 179.70 17.97
1 oz .999 round 1.00 17.42 17.88 17.88
Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 18.82 20.07 20.07
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PLATINUM Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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