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Illustrating once again how inevitably fatal a parabolic rise is to any market, I notice that Bitcoin Friday fell to a low of $1,841, down 41% from its $3,108.5 high on June 11. Bitcoin, stock, gold, silver goats, fava beans, it makes no difference. Any parabolic rise is a screaming, flashing sign that a big fall is coming, followed by a long correction.

I want to get very serious with y'all for a moment. Silver & gold stand on an extraordinary buying point. If you are familiar with the 5 wave uptrend -- Wave 1 up, Wave 2 down, Wave 3 up, Wave 4 down, Wave 5 up -- this will make sense. The peak in July 2016 was the top of Wave 1, and the recent low was the bottom of wave 2, or that bottom might come shortly, slightly lower. Wave 3 up about to begin is often the most powerful. This will be the wave that challenges, perhaps conquers, gold's 2013 $1,550 breakdown point. It will vastly outperform the wave up from December 2015 to July 2016.

Nope, I haven't a clue what event will trigger it, but it should begin really climbing within the next two months.

Stocks today backpedalled after touching new all-time highs on Friday. Dow crawfished 8.02 (0.04%) to 21,629.72. S&P500 lost 0.13 (0.01%) to 2,459.14. None of this tells us whether stocks will move higher, but frankly they have very little upside room. Within those same couple of months that will witness silver & gold beginning an epochal rally, stocks will witness the floor collapse.

US dollar index was flat today at 95.13. Careful, that chart MIGHT be forming a falling wedge, which is a bullish sign. Wedges point the opposite way they resolve.

On Comex gold rose $6.20 (0.5%) to $1,232.80 while silver rose 16.6¢ (1.05%) to 1605¢. By the way, that's an example of what I mean when I say that silver usually outperforms gold in uptrends. Not every day, but generally. Falls faster, too.

Here is the silver chart, http://schrts.co/o96FnV

Today's advance through 1600¢ resistance was workmanlike, steady. Reached up to touch the 20 day moving average, but didn't quite make it. Closed above the downtrend line from the 2011 high. MACD indicator turned up. The switches are all turned on, silver now needs only mash down that gas pedal.

Here is today's daily gold chart, http://schrts.co/Rvn3tR

Gold continued the advance begun 10 July. Closed barely above the 20 & 200 day moving averages but barely is quite good enough for this purpose. Remains above the downtrend line. MACD indicator has turned up (fast moving black line punched through the slow moving red).

I just have one word for y'all: Do NOT despise the day of small things.

Now y'all please go back to the top and read my second paragraph. Silver & gold are fixin' to make a stunning rise. Now's the time to hop down off that fence and hop on.

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

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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17-Jul-17 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,232.80 6.20 0.51%
Silver, $/oz 16.05 0.17 1.05%
Gold/Silver Ratio 76.810 -0.412 -0.53%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0130 0.0001 0.54%
Platinum 927.60 6.70 0.73%
Palladium 870.55 4.80 0.55%
S&P 500 2,459.14 -0.13 -0.01%
Dow 21,629.72 -8.02 -0.04%
Dow in GOLD $s 362.69 -1.97 -0.54%
Dow in GOLD oz 17.55 -0.10 -0.54%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,347.65 -14.59 -1.07%
US Dollar Index 95.13 -0.02 -0.02%
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100 oz .999 bar 100.00 1,563.00 1,638.00 16.38
10 oz .999 bar 10.00 160.30 163.80 16.38
1 oz .999 round 1.00 16.08 16.48 16.48
Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 16.88 18.18 18.18
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