Gold moved up higher today and then settled off the highs. In fact $14 off the highs signalling a local top might have been reached. I said a few times I expect an overnight smackdown in metals to come sooner than later. Let’s see if I am right. Goldman Sachs would sure love it as they called for gold to hit $1,000 again and the guy making that call was basically mocked by CNBC for saying so as they were long. 4 years ago they didn’t even talk about ever going long gold. Nice to see some of them come around. But I think their timing is off and are a little late to the party.
The turnaround in the markets today was oil related. We had a push higher after the storage report, which wasn’t even bullish for oil as there was an increase in the barrels held, but the gasoline data came in better than expected and the markets used that as excuse to rally. Silly markets.
We were out of our ETFs at the prices below at a minimum and you can see the returns ranged from 7.81% to 24.41% in just 2 days. Are you getting these kind of returns? We are all the time with the ETF Leveraged Trading Service I run over at Seeking Alpha. Stop by for a 2 week free trial by going here; http://seekingalpha.com/author/doug-eberhardt/research
We also did well in DUST today, catching it at 4.01 and riding it to 4.50 minimum.
If gold does begin the final decline now, and the jury is still out on that, there will be a lot of disappointed people. While we did scalp DUST today, the nightly report still has us long JNUG and NUGT which both were green today.
One note on silver; it is acting more like the industrial metal than the monetary metal. It couldn’t even get past 16 on this run. Silver is feeling the deflationary pressures. It very well could lead gold lower.
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