Lo, the mad dogs of Fed infatuation were loosed on the market today. They all slobber with hydrophobic certainty that the Fed's latest action can levitate large boulders & make insane economic nostrums work. 'Tain't so, count on it. Reality will have the last word, & smile. Yet it wasn't altogether that way. Despite the Fed's renewed but oft-shattered promise to raise rates again, the US dollar index puked back 27 basis points of yesterday's gain, closing 0.3% lower at 91.95, and below the morale-bustin' round number 92. Yesterday the dollar index managed to close above its 20 DMA (92.30) but today fell back through that mark & below 92 like a drunk with no conscience falling back into a gutter. See with clear eyes what is happening: after a long, long avalanche, the dollar index broke the low from 2016, which definitely breaks the uptrend since 2011. A little rally is in order here, just to let the pendulum swing back the other way, but the dollar index deserves no respect at all until it climbs through 94, and not much then. But LO, the other scrofulous fiat currencies aren't doing much better. Yen today lost 0.22% to close at 88.89. That plants I firmly below the 200 DMA (89.10) and, yes, that IS significant. Unless quickly reversed it lays a steep downward track for the yen. Euro rose 0.4% to $1.1941 on dollar weakness but looks none to inspiring. Has built a long, narrow rising wedge since the April low & is fighting to remain above its 20 day moving average. Here's the Dow Industrials chart, http://schrts.co/Q6KUW0 and here's the S&P500, http://schrts.co/vtdPMb I'm just a ridge runner, a nat'ral born durn fool from Tennessee -- y'all tell ME what they mean. Both indices have broken their sharp uptrend lines. Oh, nothing dispositive appeareth yet, but the hint is in the air, as of garlic breath. Besides, why'd the stock market decline if the Fed's announcement they are going to deflate the money supply by selling bonds is such good news? Shucks, I don't know. Comex metals today took the big hit from yesterday's high closes. Gold closed $21.40 (1.6%) lower at $1,290.60 while silver dropped 31.4¢ (1.8%) to 1693.7¢. Well, let's look at the gold chart, http://schrts.co/tvLeyW Gold closed below the $1,296 bottom of the support zone -- well, more or less. Them boundaries are right fuzzy. Glance to the left under that green support line and you'll see how much trading activity has already taken place from $1,280 to $1,300. Anyway, gold is floating a breath above its 50 DMA at $1,289.87, a frequent & likely target of bull market corrections. If that doesn't hold, well $1,280 - $1,275 isn't far below. This weakness could hang around two weeks, but I expected the low today, the day after the FOMC (rhymes with "Vomit") announcement. Still, that might take longer. What I don't want y'all to miss is that the uptrend that took hold in Dec 2015, & has accelerated since the July low, keeps on, yea, and will keep on grinding relentlessly, ineluctably, inexorably higher. This correction merely offers y'all a chance to buy more gold cheaper. Would y'all look at silver's messy, messy chart, http://schrts.co/o96FnV Start by remembering that silver is ALWAYS more volatile and runs faster, farther up or down than stodgy old gold does. See, silver has punctured its 200 DMA (1702¢), never a good sign unless, as it often does, it marks the limit of a move. Happens to coincide nearly with lateral chart support and the uptrend line from December 2015 AND the 50 DMA (1701¢). Those are several supports working for silver against a backdrop of universal contempt -- the best thing we could hope for since nothing ever turns around until universally despised. Once again, y'all lift UP your eyes and focus on the bigger, hard-fought uptrend from silver's December 2015 low. Y'all keep your heads. Them artillery shells they're lobbing at silver & gold are flying over our heads, not landing in the trenches. Hang on. I hope y'all try Susan's cornbread recipe I gave y'all yesterday. I'm drooling just thinking about it. SPECIAL OFFER: IMPAIRED SILVER MAPLE LEAVES It's well known that I love silver Maple Leaves just like mockingbirds love cats. Reason is plain: too expensive. I always go for the lowest price per ounce, not premium , because in the 37 years I've been doing this, I've learned that over time, premium always disappears. But what if you didn't have to pay that punishing premium, more than two bucks above the price of silver rounds? At that point, I start cogitating. After all, a coin made in Canada would probably be more barterable if Trump & Yellen finally succeed in assassinating the US dollar. 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Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
Silver and gold must be bought.
— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
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