The Fed always ceases to amaze me. Must they forever roil markets with their meddlin' & mouthin'?

Today at 2:00 p.m they published the last FOMC meeting minutes, & it appears to have confused the markets badly. Stocks tanked, silver & gold reversed upwards, and the dollar index lost the day's gains.

After the FOMC announcement the Dow fell 191 points from its 2:00 p.m. price and for the day lost 41.09 to close at 20,648.15. Owch. S&P500 tumbled 7.21 (0.31%) to 2,352.95. Here's the S&P500 chart so y'all can see what I mean, http://schrts.co/vtdPMb

Stocks had actually poked a hole in the ruling downtrend line earlier in the day, but sank like your mother-in-law's opinion of you when you show up in a tank top for Thanksgiving dinner. Lo, they sank, and after breaking into new high territory intraday, they closed lower than yesterday -- say, that's the first half of a key reversal, so a lower close tomorrow would be fatal.

US dollar index did not actually close lower, but at 2:00 it was trading for 100.85, then skidded to a close at 100.43, up 2 basis points for the day. Whoops, it so happens that high touched the 50 day moving average for the second day, so now the dollar index looks a bit shopworn, flyblown, & shabby. It also throws into question the dollar index' breakout three days ago through its downtrend line.

During the day's trading gold closed the Comex (1:30 Eastern time) lower by $9.60 (0.8%) at $1,245.40. Silver fell 13.6¢ (0.7%) to 1816.6¢.

Thus they fulfilled my fears of yesterday, but the story doesn't stop there. After the Fed's FOMC utterance gold jumped up nearly $10 to $1,254.20 and silver jumped 12¢ to 1828.5¢. Nice to see silver & gold jump, but both remain bound under $1,265 & 1850¢. It can't be called "progress" until they conquer those prices. Until then, it's just "nice," the limbo of indecision and ambivalence. Maybe tomorrow silver & gold will muster up enough grit & gumption to climb.

Bishop Ussher calculated that on 5 April 2348 B.C. Noah's ark grounded on Mt. Ararat.

On 5 April 1603 Scottish King James VI (Stuart) departed Edinburgh for London to become James I of England. The Stuarts, beginning with little Jimmy, were a rotten chapter for England the next 100 years. Stubborn & stupid, a deadly combination, seemed to run in the family.

Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
Silver and gold must be bought.

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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To avoid confusion, please remember that the comments above have a very short time horizon. Always invest with the primary trend. Gold's primary trend is up, targeting at least $3,130.00; silver's primary trend is up, targeting 16:1 gold/silver ratio or $195.66; stock's primary trend is down, targeting Dow under 2,900 and worth only one ounce of gold or 16 ounces of silver. US$ and US$-denominated assets, primary trend down; real estate bubble has burst, primary trend down.

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The US DOLLAR INDEX is the average exchange rate for the US dollar against the Euro, Yen, Pound sterling, Canadian Dollar, Swiss Franc, and Swedish Krona, weighted for each country's trade with the US. It gives a general measure of the US dollar's performance against all other currencies.

The DOW IN GOLD DOLLARS measures the Dow Jones Industrial Average in gold dollars (0.048375 troy oz. by law). The DiG$ depicts the Primary (20 year) Trend of stocks against gold. When the DiG$ is dropping, gold is gaining value against stocks in a trend that should last 15-20 years. The DiG$'s chart is identical to the Dow in ounces of gold, but gives us one unvarying measure all the way back to 1896. Because it shows the primary trend ("tide") of gold against stocks, for investors it is the single most important financial chart in the world today. Since its August 1999 high at G$925.42 (44.8 ounces), the DiG$ has trended down, targeting a G$80-G$20 (4-1 oz. of gold will buy the whole Dow).

The DOW IN SILVER OUNCES shows how many ounces of silver are needed to buy the entire Dow. The DiSoz is trending down with a target of under 36 ounces.

The GOLD/SILVER RATIO is the gold price divided by the silver price, and shows how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold. The Ratio shows us the Primary (20 year) Trend of gold's value against silver. When the Ratio's trend is dropping, silver is gaining value against gold. This trend targets a gold/silver ratio of 16 ounces of silver to one of gold within the next 5-10 years. That implies that silver will massively, vastly outperform gold before this bull market ends. When both metals are rallying, the ratio often (but not always) drops, confirming the rally.

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