gold appears to be spinning its wheels .making no upside progress
a broken record -i see both sides of the case . is this a 4foC bounce w/wave 5 to come or
have we bottomed and started a new impulse wave 3 up
we are in almost uncharted waters as far as the cot. will the commercials continue to lay in the weeds building their long positions. eg ted butler believes jpm has built a huge physical hoarde of silver. so, since the commercials are also quite long paper gold on the comex. and the large specs have reversed their bullish stance and are now quite bearish
the dollar has a large synthetic short position. ie 3rd world has borrowed in dollars. in fact i read yesterday turkey plans to issue a bond in dollars. so they can borrow even more money. the commercials are lopsided short the dollar.
the long term picture is quite clear. there is an enormous mountain of debt which will pretend to be paid off , so some point down the road there will be monetary problems we are in a tightening cycle of interest rates.
so, i lean bullish but @this juncture i need to see the market prove it to me above 118.5 gld and i will be bullish w/my money. until then i wait. 78 was the year , gold started to break out above 400 and go parabolic. i believe that this bull lasts longer than the 80 top ie we go up past 2020.
anyway that is my ramble
dharma