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Thursday, 23 February a.d. 2017 Browse the commentary archive

I hate people saying "I told ya so," but I'll be switched if I didn't tell y'all yesterday that silver & gold prices couldn't stay frozen much longer. Well, today they melted -- UP.

Stocks continue to inch higher. Dow today added 0.17% or 34.72 points & closed at 20,810.32. S&500 millimetered up 0.99 (0.04%) to 2,355.09. Get a load of this chart: http://schrts.co/ogYl7f

This shows the Dow Industrials with Bollinger Bands. What's that? Bollinger bands draw a range around a market's 20 day moving average the should catch 95% of all possible prices, above or below the 20 DMA. Notice that the Dow has been hugging the upper Bollinger Band for 9 days, which stretches the statistical rubber band near to the breaking point of improbability. This occurs against a background of declining volume the last five days, and an astoundingly overbought RSI at 81.55.

Translation: stocks' rise can't last much longer.

US dollar index dropped another 19 basis points to 101.00. Falling through 101 will take the dollar index on a tumble. Gold seems to be whispering that is coming.

Gold popped today. Rose $18.20 on Comex (1.5%) to $1,250.20, highest close & highest intraday high ($1252.20) for the move so far. Silver gained 0.9% or 16.7¢ to close at 1811.7¢, also a new intraday high and new high close. 200 DMA stands at 1797¢, so silver is bulling its way through to higher ground.

Y'all will find silver's chart right here, http://schrts.co/o96FnV

Before I get to that, the 24 hour chart shows that silver & Gold began to climb about 10:30 Eastern time and never looked back, closing near the range's top.

Now to the silver daily chart. No resistance lies before silver until it reaches the last high about 1900¢, also the place it broke down in November. This present jump should reach 1900¢ at least, before pausing.

Lo, gold's chart, http://schrts.co/thd7VH

Gold's breakdown point analogous to silver's 1900¢ is about $1,300. It will need to blast through the 200 DMA (now $1,265) to get there, but momentum has turned up.

My 36 years in the gold and silver markets has taught me one thing: folks love to buy a rising market. That's what you are watching right now in stocks. But when silver and gold reached a classic risk-free two-wave-bottom buying point, was anybody interested? Hardly. And I've observed that over the years I can plead, beg, remonstrate, & wave charts all day, but most folks will still wait to buy that fast rising price. It's human nature, I reckon, and ain't no point trying to fight that.

Regardless, silver & gold have embarked on a rise that will stretch so far that those who bought in January or February 2017 will still be bragging to the grandchildren they ain't got yet.

I thought I had heard all the stupid ideas possible, but who could outstupid a Secretary in the yankee government? The fellow with the vowel-deficient name, Mnuchin or Munchkin or whatever he's called, Secretary of the Treasury (I bet he can't even type 35 WPM) said today he though it would be a great idea of the yankee government to issue fifty (50) year bonds -- maybe even 100 year.

Mercy, why don't you just stick a gun under bondbuyers' chins & rob 'em fair and square? What ignorant goof would buy the yankee government's promise to pay back 50 years from now when in the last 50 years they have inflated the US dollar by 627%? That means that what cost you $1.38 in 1967 would cost you $10.00 today. The dollar is worth 16% of its 1967 value. For every $100 you gave them in 1967, they'd have to give you back $727 today just to break even.

Is there no END to their taking us for suckers? No end to their scorn for the American people?

On 23 February 1861 by popular referendum, Texas became the seventh state to secede from the union. Don't sound like such a bad idea right now, does it? Much as I love Tennessee, I'd emigrate to Texas in a nanosecond if they'd try it again. And I wouldn't even complain about California going its own way.

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
23-Feb-17 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,250.20 18.20 1.48%
Silver, $/oz 18.12 0.17 0.93%
Gold/Silver Ratio 69.007 0.372 0.54%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0145 -0.0001 -0.54%
Platinum 1,009.80 9.30 0.93%
Palladium 769.05 4.25 0.56%
S&P 500 2,355.09 0.99 0.04%
Dow 20,810.32 34.72 0.17%
Dow in GOLD $s 344.09 -4.50 -1.29%
Dow in GOLD oz 16.65 -0.22 -1.29%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,148.66 -8.75 -0.76%
US Dollar Index 101.00 -0.19 -0.19%
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