GO GATA!!!
The manipulation of the price of gold ought to be apparent to even the lamest of the gold market pundits out there. What happened late last week was beyond blatant and most infuriating. Today brought more of the same.
Gold was due higher this morning, yet came in stronger than anticipated, which is a rarity. It quickly took out key resistance at $440, when The Gold Cartel went into action, not just once but twice, each time gold took out the $440 level.
What happens next comes down to what MIDAS has ranted about for years. Until the crooked Gold Cartel is taken out, the price of gold will never do anything of significant consequence. As costs grow and grow for gold producers, the reason to own the gold shares diminishes by the month. Most are caught in a major league cost squeeze. Once again we see how important Gold Rush 21 was and why the coming DVD is so essential.
The obvious concern of gold market bulls, like myself, is the size of the open interest short position. Each time gold takes out $440, the cabal and friends load the boat on the short side as the specs get longer and longer. The Gold Cartel stops rallies cold as the dollar weakens, etc. As soon as the dollar picks ups its head, the bums go after the gold price with a vengeance. This is the game they have played for years, each time hoping to turn the funds into sellers as the moving averages go negative.
Those playing along with the crooks' maneuvers over the past couple of years have done well by trading the market with them. However, as Dan Norcini points out in his superb piece at the TL Table, this does not always work. They are not omnipotent. Not only that, the really big money will eventually be made by taking on the bankers when they run out of enough physical market gold to meet growing demand. It is only a matter of time. Could be on this run-up, which should happen because of the lack of any more available gold to be sold by the signatories of the Washington Agreement – if they are to keep to the agreement. However, even if they manage to turn our tide back on this move using clandestine leased bullion (which clearly they are doing at the present time), the gold time bomb they created is ticking against them. Gold will eventually make its big move towards $500 per ounce and then $1,000 per ounce and more as the cartel forces get shorter and shorter. It HAS to happen that way.
The London PM Fix was just completed ($439.65), and right on schedule the crooks came in to take gold down $1.50 off the Fix even though the dollar and nothing else changed. This is standard operating procedure for the corrupt ones.
As GATA’s Ed Steer notes:
Bill, they hit gold silver and the shares all at the same time. It's so obvious. As many have said ad nauseam....NO PROFIT MAXIMIZING SELLER EVER SELLS LIKE THAT. Ed
We are now at the gold close and The Gold Cartel has played their tedious script out to a tee. From Adrian:
Bill,
The DJIA, S&P and the Nasdog are all EXACTLY at their 50DMA. Gold was threatening to breakout. Oil is up the dollar is down. What a surprise the goon squad PPT is brought in to do their thing.
We can expect quite an effort to rig the markets because this looks like the edge of the abyss.
With dwindling ammo may be us good guys will win this time?
Cheers
Adrian
The Comex trading session has ended and we have all witnessed yet another trading session of what is the most obvious of market manipulations. The dollar remained weak all day (almost no correction during the trading period), oil surged towards all-time highs while gold was still open on the Comex, and the US stock market put in quite a reversal to the downside.
Gold? It was forced down $2.50 off its highs by the corrupt cabal, making new low after new low for the day. Have you taken the time to send what Ron Lutka has up at The Little Bear Table to all your gold companies?
Hi Bill,
Same drill... Another day, another takedown! Gold is not allowed a $440 price. Geeze, could it be any more obvious. I've been sending out the Gold Rush 21 photos to any news agency whose email address I can find. Now I'm going to start sending them to the useless senior management of the gold producers that I'm invested in and ask why they were not in attendance. Apparently, they are satisfied with the status quo, and why wouldn't they be? Just look at their salaries in Yahoo finance, etc. Add to that lots of perks and stock options. What do they care about profitability and share performance? Their salaries clearly are not performance based, if the past two years share performance is any indication. The cartel is effectively destroying all interest in this sector and will undoubtedly turn buyer when it suits them. Go GATA!
Rich C.
The euro price of gold fell to 357.92.
The gold open interest fell 1533 contracts to 329,729. The silver open interest dropped 2429 contracts to 117,476.
Silver just diddles and diddles, yet continues to hold major support between $6.80 and $6.95. It could move out of here to the upside, and sharply so, at any time.
The dollar finished the day right about as it started, 88.04, down .43. The yen gained .78 to 109.65 and the spot euro was up .85 to 122.30.
October crude finished at $65.65 per barrel.