The Gold Update: Gold Sheared, Silver Smeared

Silver was smeared this past week by -2.6% and is now -6.4% year-to-date.

But relax: have a cracker 'n schmear, perhaps even a beer, and we'll try to relate to make it all clear.

To be sure—given all that we and you from here to Kalamazoo fundamentally understand about Gold—its moving lower in the ongoing financial environment makes nary a wit of sense whatsoever. The market is never wrong by traders having put price where 'tis, irrespective of its going the wrong way.

And given the fundamental precious-metals-positive state of essentially everything, 'tis diabolical that price descend.

Indeed as Gold leapt out of the gate to commence the New Year by gaining +3.2% (and Silver +6.0%) within the first three trading days, it struck us that our call for a Gold high this year of 2401 may have been too conservative. And from the "Under-State and Over-Deliver Dept.", such 2401 forecast may still be too conservative even given the present pullback.

Either way, Gold settled out the week Friday at 1828 ... which is but half the above Scoreboard's debasement valuation of 3644. Moreover, 'tis before President-to-be-Biden rolls out his nearly $2 trillion instant COVID/economic relief plan, which with Congress now all "blue" ought pass right through.

"But even that is already priced into Gold, right mmb?"

Of course 'tis, Squire, just as always is everything. (Pity the poor trader who thinks he has it all figured out before anyone else does: "Take a seat at the back of the bus, buddy...").

And again, please spare us the argument that bits**t is the modern alternative to Gold. Cryptocrap—which within two trading days just fell -27%—ain't fallin' into our lap.

And again (again), the fundamental stance for Gold we continue to view as 100% positive given the ever-burgeoning levels of the 3Ds (Debasement, Debt, Derivatives), the declining Economic Barometer (as we'll below show), COVID clearly not contained (nor the effects of its vaccines preordained), and the endless spending of even more $trillions beyond the initial $2 trillion under Biden/Harris/Congressional reign!

So: why has Gold been declining? Reprise: the technical stance for Gold may merely be viewed as price having leapt too far too fast, at least by its recent deviation above the 300-day moving average.

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To wit: since the start of the millennium we've had 5,043 trading days. Therein, Gold has settled more than 10% above its 300-day moving average a fair amount of the time: 1,697 days, to be precise (or one-third of days overall). That alone is a testament to the price of Gold rising over the long-term whilst all of the aforementioned fundamentals reduce the value of the faux dough Dollar.

In commencing 2021, so swift was Gold's up move that price found itself nearly 13% above its 300-day moving average. And from the year 2001-to-date, Gold's average price decline within three months upon a deviation of greater than 10% above that average is -6.2% (the standard deviation being 4.9%). So with Gold recently settling at 1954 (05 January), 'twas +12.6% above said average. A -6.2% decline from there puts price at 1833, (the recent low being 1817). 'Course, hardly have three months yet to ensue: thus let's further subtract the standard deviation which puts price down to 1739. On verra, but a positive Gold stance by the fundamentals belies such demise.

Besides, as we saw a week ago, Gold's weekly parabolic trend has flipped from Short to Long, dubious as it appears on the following graphic of the price bars from one year ago-to-date. The wiggle room between the rightmost blue dot (1771) and present price (1828) is but 57 points, somewhat daunting as Gold's "expected weekly trading range" is now 72 points. Thus the new Long trend is within range of being Short-lived. And to quickly flip back to Short would leave any fundamentalist further flabbergasted. The point is: the Gold Bull ought not be put out of sorts should the lower 1700s be tested. Indeed, Gold appears to be structurally supported in the 1792-1673 range, but we don't honestly find any rationale for price to venture there.