For those of you who are short of time and are accustomed to scrolling down to the bottom of an article to read its conclusions I’m going to save you the trouble by putting the conclusions at the start: the broad US stock markets are approaching a parabolic blow off top and should be sold, and gold and silver are bottoming and should be bought. If you have fallen to the floor laughing at this suggestion it is a sign that you have been brainwashed by The Ministry of Disinformation and you are warned to pull yourself together and take the time to calmly consider the hard facts presented below – otherwise you won’t be laughing at all in a few months when YOU will be lying face down in the dirt with tire tracks across your back.
The Barons of Fiat have done an excellent job of discrediting gold and silver and smashing them back down in recent months. They are doubtless crying with laughter at the thought of the distressed “Little Guy” with his modest hoard of coins and featherweight bars, suffering from depression as a result of their actions and turning negative on the sector. The Little Guy’s noble effort to support gold and silver prices by buying a few coins is no match for Big Money’s financial chicanery on the paper market, and when push comes to shove, as happened a month ago, the dumping of a couple of truckloads of gold bars onto the market.
For the Barons of Fiat continually rising gold and silver prices are an embarrassment and may cause people to seriously question the entire fiat system. They don’t want that of course, hence the recent organized takedown, which Big Money even profited from handsomely, by first going short big time, and then getting the media, which they control, to run stories discrediting gold and silver. So it’s nice of Goldman Sachs to tell us that they have now covered their gold short position at a handsome profit.
The underlying drivers for the gold and silver bull market remain in place of course, which are unrestrained global money supply growth and credit growth, which are fuelling big inflation in various countries, even if this is disguised by massaged government statistics. This implies that the recent gold and silver takedown is throwing up a major buying opportunity, even if the basing phase continues for a while longer. So let’s now move on to see what the latest charts for gold, and for its COTs and various sentiment indicators are telling us about the internal dynamics of the sector at this point.
In the last update, posted on 28th April, we stated that gold’s relief rally had peaked and that it would turn back down and retreat back towards it April panic lows. The David vs Goliath stories about widespread buying of physical gold around the world enabled Big Money to squeeze a little more blood out of the Little Guy, who jumped back in prematurely, just as we expected. On the latest 9-month gold chart we can see that gold has now reacted back towards its April panic lows as predicted, and our challenge now is to determine whether it will continue to drop to substantially lower levels or whether it will turn up here, or soon, and in our quest we will be greatly assisted by pertinent data on the current COT structure and various sentiment indicators.
Before going further it is worth highlighting the fact that gold is now one of the most hated asset classes in the world, and Big Money’s media henchmen are not wasting any opportunity to put the boot into it, oblivious to the irony that such negativity is music to the ears of the true contrarian, which we like to think includes us. The relentless and brutal attacks on gold in the mainstream media are a sure sign that we are at or near to an important bottom.
Returning to consideration of the 9-month chart we see that gold has dropped back quite hard, but in a fairly steady manner, over the past week or so towards its April panic lows. This alone implies that there is a fair chance that the support at these lows will hold, or that if it is breached, it won’t be by much. As we will soon see, COTs and sentiment indicators strongly suggest that gold is now in a basing process, and that if it does drop further, it won’t be by much.
While gold admittedly doesn’t look too good on its 8-year chart, as the high volume breakdown from the top area implies that it could drop further towards strong support approaching $1000, this outcome does not look likely given the COT and sentiment extremes that we are already seeing, and the explosion of negativity towards the metal in the mainstream media, all of which are indicating that we are at or close to a major bottom NOW.
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