Thursday, June 27, 2013

Gold Breaks Under $1200

Sure he says, "This may be too cute by half".*
No kidding.
Front futures $1202.20 down a bunch $27.40. The low so far $1198.
From ZeroHedge:
From the moment Bernanke spoke, Gold and Silver began to accelerate to the downside. Gold legged lower into the NYMEX pit close and faded further in search of the $1200 round number (trading at $1199.90). Down around 12% from the FOMC (gold is now -38% from its highs in 2011).
Silver is following (down over 14% from FOMC) as the Gold-to-Silver ratio test 65x (double its lows in April 2011 around 32x) and back to the ratio that existed as Lehman failed....MORE
...So to sum up today's remarkable market... Equities and Bonds are rallying hard on the basis that there will be no end to QE; and gold is crashing because QE is ending?

* Yesterday's ""Charts Suggest Gold Will Bounce" (GLD)".

It did bounce, eighteen stinking bucks ($1244.20).
"Still humping the American Dream, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the last minute pre—dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino. Big strike in Silver City. Beat the dealer and go home rich. Why not? I stopped at the Money Wheel and dropped a dollar on Thomas Jefferson—a $2 bill, the straight Freak ticket, thinking as always that some idle instinct bet might carry the whole thing off. But no. Just another two bucks down the tube. You bastards! No. Calm down. Learn to enjoy losing.... 
-Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas