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1. I do not find the correlations of gold and treasuries to be especially meaningful for short term movements,
2. and for the longer term regard debt to be gold's principal driver.
3. Beyond that I will rely on charts and market sentiment for direction.
4. Gold will always be a fungible store of value so I am not concerned about what "paper" says should or could be more valuable.
I am looking at what will continue to drive gold increasingly higher, and that will be debt.Debt does not correlate well. 1981 - 2002 gold goes down. Same time period debt goes higher. We have already covered this point earlier in the thread.
That was Friday.Given long-term resistance of $1640 is just a whisker away now, it is going to get very interesting indeed once it is cleared.
Monday's POG peaked at $1689.30 and we have seen a firm retracement in price since then.
I hope that continues for weeks to come.
Although gold equities were heavily bought Monday, their prices have since returned to previous week levels in the main.
I was checking out a number of various company announcements and found some institutional stock holders have added to their positions.
In the case of Van Eck (one of the the biggest players in world gold markets), they went from zero to a +5% holding in AMI in the last month.
I believe there is a steady change from trading to investing in gold equities, as this bull market has a lot left in it and most producers were already turning a useful profit when POG was US$300/oz less than today.
I think we neen to be really careful here. Gold stocks got hammered in 2008.
Gold Stocks also got hammered today on our market in a high 'gold price' arena ……..
Punters are obviously nervous, and when punters are nervous … fundamentals go out the window in the short term.
Personally, I am in pain financially in this current smash up … but hopefully I will be smarter coming out the other side than in the past...
Do you have a reference?The big selloff in Gold was Russia selling gold to balance its losses in oil revenues and meet payments on debt obligations.
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