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Gold is So Normal it Ain’t Funny

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The metal that Huey digs from the bowels of the earth is fine

You see, with silver out-performing gold (since well before the #silversqueeze promotion), with inflation expectations rising, with cyclical commodities rising, with the government set to panic a shit load more fiscal policy into the economy… gold is normal. It is still unwinding a blow off in fear and angst after the deflationary spring.

Of course the two red towers that mysteriously reversed gold out of a pair of breakouts (of sorts) are of suspect origin. But maybe da boyz was just doin’ da bugz a favor in presenting a great buying opportunity to come by keeping gold on its proper corrective course. The best support area is and has been the low-mid 1700s (with allowance for a spike to the lower trend line).

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Gold/SPX Ratio and the Gold Stock Case

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In and around the August time frame we noted (in NFTRH) high risk to the gold miners because the price of HUI had gotten a million miles ahead of gold’s ratio to the stock market. That was typical bit in the mouth enthusiasm by the gold “community”, as even Warren Buffett bought a gold stock (and signaled a top).

This chart (and another I have like it) revealed to us in real time the excessive condition. Could the miners have just kept going, into a bubble of their own? Sure, but very unlikely. Amid the bubble making elsewhere gold, silver and the miners are doing the right thing… and they are doing nothing that they did not do several times in the bull market circa 2001-2007. Those bull market grinds were interminable, but ultimately gave way to grand new highs when the healthy corrective work was complete.

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