November 8 – Gold $432.50 down 40 cents – Silver $7.47 unchanged
Strong Cash Gold Market Giving Gold Cartel Fits
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GO GATA!!!
When I went to bed last night, gold was up $2 and starting to do what it ought to after such a dramatic day on Friday and after making 16-year highs. However, as we know, gold has traded like no other market in history over the over the past half-decade+. It rarely trades as it should from a technical standpoint. Of course, we understand why. It is a managed market.
Today was no different than so many other times over the past many years. Gold was stuffed by The Gold Cartel at the $430+ level AGAIN. It makes little difference to them whether gold is $435 or $427. They will just sell more to do what they can to keep the price from getting away from them. We know this is so because of the growing open interest, up another 7,365 contracts to a new record of 331,018. The specs keep piling in and the price managers keep selling.
In addition, the cabal continues to make sure gold goes nowhere in many other currencies. Here is part of the general enthusiasm/investment interest problem – from a Café member very involved in the financial markets in Europe:
Hi Bill,
While you guys enjoy the break through the 430 USD/oz barrier, there is nothing to celebrate in Europe.
The gold price in EUR is one beautiful distribution formation.
And very easy for the Powers-that-be to hedge their short gold positions with a currency-contract...
Regards
Bart
Then this additional comment followed:
Hey Bill,
Great day on Friday!
Anyway, isn't is amazing how "they" won't let POG rise above Euro 344? I mean, Trichet today said he WANTS a weaker Euro, but still POG doesn't rise so much as a cent against it.
The chinks in the armor are expanding.
Andrew
It is remarkable how limited the thinking is about gold vis-à-vis foreign currencies in the establishment world. The analysts are blind as bats and extremely ignorant. Gold has been held in check against the euro, etc. It is the manner in which Gold Cartel has rigged the price. No need to go into the cap, cap drill for the 1000th time. However, it is important to mention this gold world blind spot to demonstrate a significant reason most gold analysts don’t comprehend why the price is going to explode at some point in the near future. They are clueless even with so much GATA evidence staring them in the face.
Meanwhile, The Gold Cartel’s efforts to send gold back down below $430 were rebuffed today. The reason: the same one brought to your attention all the way up to these price levels: the physical market is on fire. There is tremendous competition for supply on every dip. The cabal induced gold to trade down to $430.60 during the Comex trading session and that was that. Back up she went.
Here is a BIG POTENTIAL POSITIVE. The gold spreads are blowing out. Not long ago the December/June spread was running at $5 June premium. Friday it blew out to $5.90 and today it closed at $6.10. OK, so why the big deal?
Before gold went nuts in 1979, the spreads did the same thing about two weeks before gold went ballistic. Perhaps we are looking at the same pre-market, take-off occurrence? There is a good chance many traders are looking at inflation REALLY accelerating in the US. If so, interest rates will shoot up – bond yields will head north. This will increase the contango (spread between the futures markets trading months). Gold exploded in 1979/1980 on inflation fears. Those fears may be creeping their way back into the thinking of the more sophisticated traders out there.
Early today our floor sources were pleased to see the amount of scale down buy orders on their books, figuring it was this way on many other books on the floor. Early morning they felt price setbacks would be well cushioned. This became evident by the close.
Silver fell 8 cents, took off to the plus side for 8 cents, and then settled down to a nothing day. The open interest rose 1742 contracts to 120,756.
The Comex silver stocks DROPPED once more, falling 591,940 ounces to 103,067,278 and another new low for the move. This is bad news for the silver bears.
The dollar rose a whopping .10 to 84.17 and the euro fell .23 to 129.23.
Crude oil slipped 52 cents to 49.09.