Mark Mead Baillie | Jan 13, 2014 01:46AM ET
Nine trading days into the new year Gold is truly getting a bid as we commence straightaway with this chart of daily price bars since August of last year. The key measure to observe is the rising blue moneyflow line in the lower portion of the graphic, indicative of dough flowing without much hesitancy into Gold:
Pop Quiz! Prior to Friday, when was the last time Gold completed a trading day at the session's highest price?
"On 13 August of last year, mmb, and then after that it was almost a hundred points higher in just two weeks!"
Very quick off the mark there, Squire, yes that is correct. Let's then see how good you really are:
Extra Credit! Prior to yesterday, when was the last time Gold completed a trading week at its highest price?
"Is that a trick question, mmb?"
Not a trick question, Squire, but perhaps a tougher one to readily ferret out, for yesterday was only the third occasion in the last ten years that Gold finished a trading week on the high price. The other two prior dates were fairly close together: 31 December 2010 followed by 08 April 2011 -- then in turn with Gold achieving its All-Time High price (1923) on 06 September later that year.
Not that we're predicting history to precisely repeat itself, but following 52 weeks of frustration throughout 2013, 'tis encouraging to see Gold having at least started 2014 according to Hoyle. However, this first full trading week of the year hardly garnered any Gold notice from the punditry-at-large, their being aligned step-by-step with the FinMedia in assuring "the peeps" that the stock market and economy are poised respectively for still higher levels and growth.
Indeed Gold's trading range for this past week was a quiet 36 points, certainly below its "expected" weekly trading range of 52 points. Moreover, its change for the week was nothing about which to write home, gaining just a mere 11 points:
Unbeknownst to the mainstream lemmings as they race ever further toward the plank's edge, for those of you out there truly paying attentive deference to Gold, you saw its past week as being nothing short of brilliant.
To wit: let's bring up two week-over-week graphics, the first of which is animated to emphasize Gold's progression vis-à-vis its market magnet for the past five days. As herein penned one week ago: "...I wouldn't panic out there should Gold commence the new week with a bit of a dip, for [as to] price (thin line) versus magnet (thick line), a natural snap-back thereto may be in order before resuming higher still, and ideally then with the magnet line itself in upside, rather than downside, tow..." It played out perfectly as you can see unfold below, the magnet itself turning higher being a beautiful thing. The number in the upper box is the level of the magnet; the number in the lower box is price's distance from the magnet:
For I am extremely sensitive to the fact that those who drove Gold into deep despair by their massive market sells last year can just as easily induce the same price velocity to the upside. If we look back to the summer of 2011, admitting then that Gold was getting ahead of itself, it nonetheless gained 445 points in just 10 weeks. And unlike the other markets that comprise our BEGOS complex (Bond/Euro/Gold/Oil/S&P), Gold is the only one upon which the GLOBEX trading platform does not impose price limits: that is to say, just as quickly as we saw Gold get garrotted last year, so can we see it greatly gain going forward. It requires positive sentiment and the early hint of that is reflected in the moneyflow study shown at the outset.
Speaking of BEGOS, look what just happened: the yellow metal has crossed above the smooth, pearly valuation line that suggests a price for Gold based upon its movements relative to those of the other four markets. Veteran readers know the trader's rule of thumb there: "Buy!" for price moves more swiftly than does the smooth line itself:
Further, to so rise in the context of what year-to-date has been Dollar strength would be even more remarkable. The Greenback did of course get whacked upon yesterday's release of the weak payroll growth report for December, the poor data in turn hammering yields as the "never-day-die" Bond sported its largest daily gain since 18 September. But again this friendly reminder: as we saw over the first half of 2010, Gold can rise just fine thank you very much even when weakness in the €uro and ¥en serve to drive the Dollar Index higher, (albeit its getting creamed yesterday):
Then there's the EuroZone. 'Tis been ever so curious to regularly read these days of economic revival Across-The-Pond. All seems on the right path, and yet the spectre of deflation is lurking such that the Bank of England is maintaining its ultra-loose monetary policy (Gold cha-ching), whilst the European Central Bank is maintaining that should inflation levels remain too low, 'twill respond aggressively as just stated Super Mario with "further decisive action" (Gold cha-ching).
Finally to which, have you noticed the politically-correct transformation of referring from the EuroZone's so-called "PIIGS" instead to the "Periphery" countries? That's cute. Except for reading this past week of Spain's Princess Cristina being court-bound amid tax evasion and money laundering allegations involving hubby Inaki. I'll stick with "PIIGS".
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