Oil and gasoline prices continue to fall. That’s relieving some inflationary pressures, yet gold is surging in a dramatic rally from my $1675 buy zone.
It is estimated that quant-oriented commodity trading advisors unwound nearly $100 billion of bearish stock-bond bets recently, helping the world’s biggest markets to recover from their worst half in history...
If I’m wrong the risk is minimal, but if I’m right the reward will be worth taking the risk at the very bottom. This is how you get 5 to 10 baggers in the PM complex.
Indeed we oft wonder if the six-figure folks at the banks actually do any honest economic analysis. The optics are that they do not, instead choosing to parrot one another with what they see on TV.
Last week's price action served to remind us that big rallies and even entire bull markets are driven mainly by short covering. This doesn't happen by accident.
Gold moves as a headwind is removed. Gold is moving right into the resistance part of the daily Bollinger Band. Rally might have problems here as market is overbought.