On Sunday morning, fresh from the news of the G20 appeasement and the North Korean DMZ, I ran a poll on Twitter. The response was really good, and here’s how the voting wound up:
Poll Dancers
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The Golden Volcano
Did you feel that? The earth is rumbling. I can feel it beneath my feet. Over the past couple weeks, gold saw a significant breakout.
After consolidating a base for the past six years, gold’s breakout has a measured move target of $1,683. There is a large volume by price gap between here and there, so we could get there rapidly.
Looking at the long term twenty year chart, we can notice a couple takeaways. First, the bull market in gold at the beginning of the century lasted from 2001-2011. The bear market in gold lasted from 2011-2015. I would suggest with this month’s breakout, we have begun a new bull market in gold that will run from 2016-?
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