Something passing weird happened to silver & gold this afternoon, but let me first get other things out of the way.

US dollar index closed above 93 at 93.15, up 22 basis points or 0.2%. By itself today's action means nothing, but look at it against the background in this chart, http://schrts.co/anj646

An upside down head and shoulders pattern signals a coming upside reversal. Resistance at 94 is the neckline, and you can see the left shoulder, head, and now- forming right shoulder. Target for a head and shoulders is estimated by adding the depth of the head, here about 300 basis points, to the neckline at 94. that works out to 97, or about where the red arrow points to the 200 day moving average.

A dollar rally will be fast and sharp, but should peter out by mid-November. Dollar strength did not cause the perturbation in silver & gold today, but will tilt their march sharply uphill as it rallies.

Lest y'all mistake me, I hasten to add that any dollar rally will be the countertrend type, because the dollar's uptrend since mid-2015 has been broken. After this rally that downward reversal will become evident to all.

Dow pushed 85.29 points closer to 23,000 today, closing at 22,956.96, up 0.37%. S&P500rose 0.48% or 4.47 to 2,557.64. This experience will not last forever Happy Days ain't here again, he said liverishly.

One Comex silver backed up immaterially, 4¢, to 1731.5¢. Gold pinched off $1.660 to $1,299.90.

So far, so good, but look at this one day chart from Ino.com, http://bit.ly/2q1vAly All's calm until after the close right at 3:00 p.m. eastern, when suddenly gold gaps down, avalanches, gaps twice again, and on this chart reaches a low about $1,291. It recovers to about $1,294.

Sorry, I couldn't find even a plausible news item to account for this fainting spell. It doesn't show up on the end of day daily chart here, http://schrts.co/LkmcAz

Is it an anomaly, a footprint of high frequency trading, or a sign of coming weakness like a lousy electrocardiogram? I can't answer. The EOD chart shows that gap up off the low, then trading clustered under that red downtrend line. Generally that leads you to expect another burst of strength, maybe with another gap, once gold penetrates that line. This aftermarket break took gold nearly to the bottom of that cluster, and below its 50 DMA. Sounds waffly, but only tomorrow will tell what's happening. Lower gold, as in below $1,290, would argue that the uptrend has expired. A close above that uptrend line, say above $1,306, would signal more expensive gold. All thing weighed, this aftermarket break casts a dark cloud over gold.

Here's the one day silver chart, bit.ly/2xLkma8 that displays the same behavior. Not much range during the day with a collapse beginning at 3:00 p.m. with a gappy avalanche down to a low, with lackluster comeback. Also not shown on the silver EOD chart, http://schrts.co/o96FnV

I can't say whether this is just a glitch or some trder's raid into a thin market, or a bad omen for silver and gold, like buzzards perching on the tree outside your window when you've been ailin' a few days. We'll know tomorrow.

On 16 October 1859 John Brown mounted his raid on the US Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia intending to start a slave uprising across the South. Brown had practiced his terrorist skills in Bleeding Kansas in 1856, massacring five people in the Pottawatomie massacre.

Brown's violence was secretly financed by outwardly respectable Yankee preachers and abolitionists, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Gridley How, Theodore Parker, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Gerrit Smith, & George Luther Stearns.

Brown's 18 men easily overpowered the single watchman at the Armory and began collecting hostages from surrounding farms. They ran out of luck when a train approached Harpers Ferry and the baggage master, Hayward Shepherd, tried to warn the passengers. Brown's men shot and killed Shepherd, a free black man, as well as two of the hostages' slaves.

Brown allowed his group to be bottled up by local militia. By morning of the 18th the building was surrounded by a US Marine Company under overall command of Col. Robert E. Lee of the United States army. After Brown refused to surrender, the Marines broke down the door with a battering ram and in 3 minutes subdued Brown and the others.

At the subsequent trial Brown & the other survivors were convicted of murder and treason and hanged.

In many ways John Brown presents the archetype fanatic of the 20th & 21st centuries, so determined to impose his ideology that even overthrowing society and mass murder does not hinder him for a moment. "Let us kill human beings to save humanity!." He is the perfect forerunner of Communism, fascism, and the abortion movement. God preserve us from humanitarian do-gooders!

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