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Making Sense of Today’s Gold Surge (Paulenoff)

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If there is a specific reason why spot gold is up $38 since about 7:40 am ET, it has to be Chicago Fed Gov. Evans spewing forth comments that the economy remains weak (duh), and that more monetary stimulus is needed. That is all the gold bugs needed here in combination with President Obama cooking up another big stimulus plan that will spit into the wind of deficit reduction and fiscal austerity.

In any event, the vertical surge in the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) from 174 to 178 in pre-open hours Tuesday has the look of the start of upside continuation of the rally off of last Thursday's corrective low at 165.88 to Friday's high at 178.17.

That said, the fact that this morning's strength pushed above Friday's high (to 178.36 so far) but has not followed through makes me suspicious of its underlying sustainability and warns me to wait and wait for 1-3 hours prior to jumping into a new long position into strength. Heavy resistance resides at 180.00, so any forthcoming long position must be "supported' by an accompanying pattern that has "structural potential" to surge through and sustain above 180.00/50.

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Originally published on MPTrader.com.

Why Silver Over Gold (by Mike Paulenoff)

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During the last few sessions, my intraday gold/silver ratio work has been warning me that the recent leadership role of gold's upside acceleration might undergo a change. No, not that gold will reverse, but more than likely silver will begin to outperform gold again on the upside.

Again? Yes, remember that for 9-month period between July 2010 and April 2011, silver prices rocketed while gold prices climbed at a much more subdued rate of change.

My near- and intermediate-term ratio work is suggesting that the May-Aug gold leadership role is at or nearing completion, and that in the hours and days directly ahead, silver prices will begin to "out-accelerate" gold on the upside and show increasing resilience during periods of weakness.

The fact that silver prices hurdled their Apr-Aug resistance line this morning supports the unfolding leadership change.

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Originally published on MPTrader.com.

Chartwork on Oil (by Mike Paulenoff)

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Nearby NYMEX crude oil futures have the right look and the requisite underlying internals to suggest that yesterday's low at 93.42 and this morning's low at 93.81 ended the decline from the July 26 high at 100.62. If that proves to be the case, then as long as 93.75/42 remains intact as key support, oil likely is starting a recovery rally that should revisit key resistance at 98.00-98.60. If hurdled, it will trigger upside continuation to 100.00 for a test of the July highs.

Wouldn't that be perplexing while everyone is fixated on the potentially intensifying global economic slowdown?

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Originally published on MPTrader.com.