Gold Price Update

With the Euro-zone bank-run accelerating on a daily basis, sapping liquidity out of the system, and financial amageddon coming closer, the end of the Euro currency and the total economic collapse of the Euro-zone countries is coming closer and closer by the day, unless of course they engage in massive money-printing to support the collapsing countries and banks.

Money printing can either be done directly by their own central bank ECB or indirectly by the US Federal Reserve via SWAPS agreements. Many europeans are very reluctant to engage in money-printing because of their qute recent experience with hyperinflation/currency collapse in both France during the French Revolution and the Weimer Republic hyperinflation episodes in the 1920's. Because of the overwhelming objection by the public the European governments may have to do a discreet money-printing via the Federal Reserve SWAPS agreement. The concept is the same is the same but most people would never notice it.

Massive money-printing out of thin air is highly inflationary and could easily lead to currency collapse/hyperinflation. When faced with the choice of a total collapse now if they do nothing, or print and delay the financial amageddon, the choice for the politicians and the Keynesian economists who currently dominate the mainstream economic landscape is clear, and that is to print and print money until the total system implodes.

Here is a link to youtube video on the French hyperinflation episodes 1 and 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zvNV-vkEzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4aRuiO1OuQ&feature=related

Money-printing program is extremely bullish for the price of gold and silver as these two metals are time-tested alternative currency that cannot be debased by governments, and that is not only a hedge against inflation but also a store of value against sovereign and currency collapse.

When they start to engage in massive money-printing, which they will as there is NO other choice, it is either print & delay the collapse or not print and collapse now,  the price of gold and silver should start to break out of the current consolidation zone and starts to break out to the upside again.

Key price level for gold is a clear break above US$1,800

Next upside target for gold is between US$2,400 - $2,500per ounce, and it can get there very very quickly.

Key level for silver is about US$44 per ounce. Silver pullback since May has taken the form of an equal leg ABC zig zag. A break above wave B high ($44) of an ABC correction implies the pullback is over, and that the next trending leg up is underway.

Once silver breaks out of the current consolidation, its next upside price target is US$75 per ounce.

A Case For Gold

With a major European bank specifically SoGen on the precipice of a total collapse just like Lehman Brothers in 2008, the stage is set for credits to freeze up in Europe anytime now. The impact should reverberate not only across Europe but around the world surely to cause major financial havoc that could severely crash the global market.

If so, Libor rates is certain to shoots up into the stratosphere which would decapitated the global financial system and cause a major global stock market crash more severe that the 2008 stock market crash.

The world central banks would likely intervene to supply liquidity but because they were so heavily criticized during the 2008-2209 financial crisis, they may be a little timid at first, which would be extremely bad for the global markets because once the system has collapsed it will be very difficult to support.

At the heart of the problem is a banking crisis, over-indebted and over-leveraged banks, problems they had in 2008 but was never solved because the world central banks, being run by Keynesian economists, never understood the problem, hence had prescribed the wrong medicine. Instead of solving the problem, they exacerbate the situation and had simply delayed the inevitable reckoning, the eventual bursting of the debt bubble.

Credit crunch will come, it is just a matter of when, In what form and how agressive the world Central Bankers would handle it this time around will tell us the trajectory of the incoming financial crisis that we can take advantage of and profit from. My guess is that the Fed would initially open up liquidity SWAP lines with major central banks in order to ease the credit crunch, but should that is deemed insufficient they will intervene by directly buying up the collapsing stocks. Governments in their misguided attempt would likely come in with "fiscal stimulus" but instead of helping the situation it that would greatly exacerbate the crisis.

A timid response would be bad for the markets in the short-run but good in the long-run. The stock markets would crash and gold and silver prices should explodes further to the upside as "smart" global investors stampede into safe haven assets. Dumb money will pile into government bond of course, falsely thinking that bond is a safe haven.

I will be watching out for a major flash-crash that can easily sends dow 1000's of point down in a short period of time as investors are forced to liquidate their positions.

An aggressive response should slow down the collapse but could accelerate fiat currency collapse, causing the already accelerating gold price to go up even faster. Many investors will be running into government bonds, but although they will not lose their "fiat paper money", currency collapse would render their dollars or Euros worthless

How high will the price of gold go to in an event of a currency collapse? There is no limit to the upside because gold, as the only "true money", with supply that cannot be arbitrarily increase by central bank, is simply reflecting the the true value of real things. We have see recently that an egg can cause a few trillion Zimbabwe dollars.

Gold Price Is In Acceleration Mode Up

A massive end of day buying binge by the Plunge Protection Team engineered to squeeze the short-sellers and influence market sentiment, triggered just after the released of the FOMC minutes on Tuesday pushed many markets which have been tanking all day, to close up in positive territory.

Whether they can keep supporting the market up for an extended period of time only time will tell but I suspect they would not be able to keep rigging the market for too long as it gets more and more costly to do so particularly in an environment of accelerating government and central banks debt and collapsing paper currencies against a backdrop of the unwinding speculative bets that is now crushing global liquidity/credit supply.

The flight to safe haven assets particularly into gold is only beginning to accelerate. Already there are several major banks that is falling victim to this unfolding flight to safety, gold. Bank of America and Society Generale are both on the brink of total collapse and its contagion effect surely has the potential to bring down the whole global financial system. When that happens the flight from fiat paper currencies and into gold should accelerate even faster.

As more and more people realizes that gold is real money that cannot be printed into existense out of thin air, more and more people would exchange their paper money with gold in order to protect their wealth, which will push gold price further and further into the stratosphere.

In 2008 when the banking system collapsed governments and central banks were available to bail them out and pushed the financial system away from the brink of total collapse. For that the governments and central banks are now so heavily in debt and on the verge of collapse themsevles. In fact several countries have already collapsed, first it was Iceland then Ireland and Greece. Now Italy, Spain, France, UK and USA are themsevles on the verge of collapse.

This time around however, when the governments and central banks collapses there is no bigger entity to come to their rescue. Some may argue that Central Banks can print the needed money to bail out the monetary system, which is true, but that would only accelerate the currency collapse of whichever country that would undertake such a silly move, but this is precisely what most government would do in their misguided attempt to prevent the inevitable implosion.

Gold, which would be the prime beneficiary of a flight into safe haven asset, would experience a demand that is unprecedented and would price of gold to go balistic. How high will gold price go to depends entirely on how crazy the world's central bank gets with their printing press. It is very likely that they will print and print until the all fiat paper currencies collapses. When that happens  the sky is the limit for gold price because gold is merely reflecting the amount of paper money central banks is printing, the more paper money central bank prints the higher gold price will be as measure in that currency.

Will gold price eventually top? Yes of course one day it will stop going up and then come back down, but that time is still several years away. We are still at the very early stage of currency collapse. It normally takes 2 to 3 years for currency collapse to unfold. It will be clearly evident when that time come.

Just to put the price of gold into perspective, with the current monetary base of the United States, gold price has to go up to between $8,000 to $10,000 per ounce to match gold price high in 1980. But there is an estimated amount of about $12 trillion of US Treasury bond outside the US. If those bond holders starts to stampede of of the US dollar denomiated bonds then US dollar will collapse in a hurry.

Today gold has reach a new price milestone broken above $1.800 per ounce. The stage is set for further explosin in the price of gold as more and more traders who are short the gold market are forced to cover their short positions. Most would lose everything.

The current speed of gold price appreciation is telling me that the shorts are in panic capitulation mode. Once most have capitulated we may get a snap-back decline in gold price that would scare the daylight out of most people. It is possible to see a 38.2% decline within a few weeks just like what happened in the Silver market  at the end of may, but that would be just another opportunity for those still left in the dust to come onboad for the final phase of the gold bull market.

Gold Update

Friday's downgrade of the US debt rating by Standard and Poors is the straw that broke  the camel's back, but it came too little too late, as the downgrade should have occurred a long time ago. The fact is the US has been defaulting on its debt for years via dollar devaluation. One clear evidence is the fact that for the last ten year gold, which is "real" money, has been appreciating on an average of 20% per year, which would have appreciated much high had the Federal Reserve along with the US Treasury not intervene to suppress the price of gold.

A rush out of fiat currencies and into safe haven gold is now intensifying. The stage is now set for gold price explosion and the collapse of the paper currencies around the world. The rush has just begun. I have no doubt the Federal Reserve would try to push gold price down in their attempt to slow down the speed towards total  monetary collapse. How successful will they be in slowing down the endgame of total monetary collapse is difficult to forecast, but one thing for sure is that gold price volatility will surely increase causing wild price swings (up and down) as the battle for supremacy intensifies. Eventually the gold camp will win the war that would leave those trying to short gold  in the dustbin of history.

Gold Update

Today's price high in gold came close to the key $1,700 per ounce, a Line-in-the-Sand for now, a level that will be strongly defended by the short-sellers and it is also the level where many longs will take some profit. Hence as gold price come closer to $1,700 level there will be a lot of selling coming into the market.

Whether or not that selling will cause a large pullback in gold price only time will tell. From a very short term technical perspective, a clear and sustained break above $1,680 could cause many short-sellers to capitulate and cover, causing a major spike in gold price. Without a clear and sustained break above we could see a lot of selling coming into the gold market int he short-term.

In the long term however, gold will continue to go higher as the current monetary system get closer and closer to its end game, a monetary collapse which will usher in a new global monetary system that would be back by gold and silver.

Gold Update

There is hardly any usual summer pause or pullback in gold price this year. Most analysts. traders and investors, lacking the real understanding of sound economics concept (real economics and not the Keynesian economic type) cannot understand why gold price is going up, either shorting gold and losing big-time, missing the entire gold bull run or still on the sideline hoping for a pullback to jump on board. Many are thinking that gold is in a bubble  The percentage of the general population participating in the current gold bull market is still at a minuscule level of about 1% to 2%.. At the previous gold bubble top in 1980 when gold was about $850 per ounce, public participation rate was over 15%. There is a long way to go before gold is in bubble territory.

Looking at the 10-years gold chart (below), it looks to me that gold price is now in its second stage of its bull trend that started in 2001. It is possible that at some point in the future gold may get a large 38.2% snap-back pullback or retracement like the ones that occurred in the silver market in May. From what price level and when that would happens only time and price action would tell. At today's current price level of just above  $1,600 per ounce gold is now nearing a doubling of price from its previous price high of $850 in 1980. Normally a doubling of price is a very important technical price milestone and can bring in profit-taking activities and that doubling in price is $1,700. Will the widely anticipated profit-taking pullback occur as gold approaches $1,700, only time will tell. However, without a major pullback the short-sellers are doomed and if they are force to cover it could propel a fast move up in gold price to a dizzying level.

For now with the Euro zone and the United States in crisis that cannot be solved, gold can continue to go up and up until the current monetary system totally implode. The endgame is the inevitable global collapse of fiat currencies that could send gold price into the stratosphere, which may still be 3 to 5 years away, and could be longer if the governments in the US and Europe continue to mess around with the free market mechanism, which they would most likely would do.

For now, regardless of what the government would do, the system as we know it is doomed to implode. It is as sure as the night would follow the day The only question we need to ask ourselves now is when and in what form the monetary breakdown would occur. The path to our current monetary system implosion would depends very much on what the major powers would do now and in the future, in their misguided attempt to solved the problem. Gold is the only real money, accepted and recognized by every society around the world, as it has been for thousands of years, regardless of what Ben Bernanke think. As such, until the new monetary system emerges to replace the current ones, smart money would continue to flow into gold in exchange for their fiat paper currencies, hence would continue to push the price of gold higher and higher. 

It will end one day in a bubble level, where that would be depends entirely on what would happen. Without any more money-printing by the Federal Reserve, the current gold fair value should be around $8,000 per ounce, but it is not at that price level now simply because of the gold price manipulation which has been widely reported by GATA. 

Silver Near Record High

Will it reach its 1980 record high overnight tonight? Maybe, maybe, but I can't wait to see history in the making.

Gold Update

As long as the United States continue to finance the expansion of its empire through money-printing out of thin air, backed by nothing, Gold and Silver price should continue to go up.

The is no end in sight to the current trend, and in fact current US foreign policy is indicating that its empire building activities is intensifying as evidence by the engineered chaos in the middle east which should soon spread to other parts of the world. This is very bullish for gold, silver and all real asset as people continue to move their asset from paper currencies into real asset.

Here is gold 30-day price chart

Here is gold longer-term price chart (updated)

Short-Squeeze in Silver Causing Silver Price Spike

Massive short-squeeze in Silver is causing a massive price spike in Silver, now approaching the 1980 price high of about $50 per ounce. Silver may have to break above its 1980 high of $50 before a larger degree profit-taking pullback sets in.

Here is the 37-year price chart for Silver

Gold and Silver Rally Continues

With the US budget deficit problem certain to get worse, and the Federal Reserve's Money Printing activities certain to continue, gold and silver price will continue to rise up to levels that most people would never imagine possible.

Today, Gold reached another all time high again and silver reached a new 31-year high.

Here is the latest gold chart

Here is the latest Silver Chart

Silver Continue to Rally

As physical silver shortage continues, price of  silver should continue to rise as well seeking supply. Although price has rallied over $20 per ounce since silver's price backwardation started, when silver was only $17 per ounce, backwardation still continue to persist to this day, an indication that price will need to rise much further to achieve it equilibrium price. A further rise in price would intensify the already intense short-squeeze in silver.

Here is a chart of spot silver taken today at the end of the day.

Gold at another Record High Price

As the day progressed and as short-squeeze in gold intensified, gold continued to make record high price closing up over $20 per ounce for the day. Baring any concerted effort by the US Federal Reserve to whack gold price down ahead of this weekend's Bretton Woods II meeting, short-squeeze should continue to intensify into the weekend, and may reach $1,500 to $1,650 per ounce by the weekend.

For us economist who follows the Austrian School of Economic Thought the current run-up in precious metals and commodity prices is a given as a consequence of the reckless US Central Bank policies of flooding the world with useless fiat paper dollar bills, with US dollar a World Reserve Currency. But for those mainstream economists, followers of the "Keynesian's Economic Thought"  whose group currently dominates the economic landscape in both private and public sectors, the relentless rise in commodities price is a mystery, something that baffles them. 

With no end in sight for the current US Federal Budget deficit, the Fed money-printing cannot end until there is total economic collapse such as the Weimer Republic or Zimbabwe. As a consequence, there will also be no end in sight for the current bull market in commodities.

Here is a chart showing gold price at the end of the day today.

Gold at New Record High

Gold had just reached a new milestone record high price just a moment ago. As "short-sellers" get squeezed and pulverized, gold is set to rocket up to the next target price level of $1,650 in a very short order before pulling back down on some profit-taking, which should be short-lived.

Gold bull trend's third wave up is just at the beginning stage, evidenced by the lack of participation by retail investors and regular man on the street, still missing in action. Gold bull trend still has a long way up to go both in "Time" and "Price". Here are some of the factors that should continue to support gold's upward price tragectory.

• 1. Bretton Woods II is just about to begin this weekend, with the meeting set to commence on 8th April 2011 in Bretton Woods. The main purpose of the upcoming meeting is the establishment of the New World Reserve Currency to replace the US dollar, and that is very very bullish for gold, as the new reverse currency may have to be partially back by gold.
• 2. The Collapse of Europe, which started with Greece, Ireland and now Portugal. After Portugal will be Spain, then Italy. Saving these countries will require massive amount of money-printing by the European Central Bank.
• 3. The coming collapse of United States of America, but before that happens, the US Federal Reserve will print money into oblivion.
• 4. Unrest in the Middle East, which both the European and American governments co-engineered in order to divert attention away from their collapsing economies. The current unrest can get out of hand very quickly and thus bullish for gold.
• 5. The most important factor is the continual money-printing at an accelerating pace out of thin air by the US Federal Reserve, flooding the world with useless paper dollar, triggering massive inflation worldwide. There is no end in sight for the Fed's money-printing to finance the ever-increasing US budget deficit.

US Dollar at a Precipice, Gold and Silver Price May Rocket

US dollar collapse would be a surprise to most people but the signs are all around for everyone to see. As the US dollar approaches a critical support level, its declining momentum is accelerating, assuring a high probability of a break that has the potential to turn a smooth orderly decline into a runaway waterfall decline. A break below key support level on the US dollar index could signal the beginning of the end for the US dollar hegemony.

Here is a documentary called "The Day the Dollar Dies", a realistic depiction of what to expect when that day come. 

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuPgdZeAFjA

With so much US dollar floating all around the world, a sharp collapse could start a stampede out on the US dollar and into real assets including Gold ans Silver, more than enough to trigger a relentless short-covering panic that can push Gold and Silver price to the stratosphere. 

The dollar collapse will be catastrophic to the US economy because the Federal Reserve is essentially out of bullet, stuck between a rock and a hard place, rendering the Fed powerless to do anything to stabilize the situation. 

Staying above $1,410, Gold Price is set to Explode

With gold price remaining above $1,410 the stage is set for gold price to rocket up to the next upside price target of $1,540, and it can happen in a blink of an eye.

The momentum or speed of the up move would be closely tied to the US dollar, now at a precipice, having failed to attract any safety-conscious global capital as a result of the engineered turmoil in the middle east.

With no end in sight for the US Federal Reserve's legalized money-counterfeiting activities, global capital is now starting to flee the US dollars, even as the turmoil in the middle east and the threat of euro zone collapse intensifies, and running into real assets (commodities) such as gold, silver, crude oil, etc.

With the collapse of the US dollar, there is no limit as to  how high gold price will go. But for now, my next upside target is $1,540, then $1,650, then $2,150 and higher.

The main event to watch for is the price action of the US dollar as it approaches and or break 72 - 74 key support level in the US dollar index.

Silver Shorts Getting Crushed, US Dollar at a Precipice

Another large up day again for Silver as the shorts continue to get crushed. As the world inflation continues to intensify, Silver short-covering should continue to intensify as well.

US dollar is now at a precipice and major collapse is imminent. When it does the world will be "shocked".

Gold In Breakout Mode Targeting $1,540

With a break above prior major swing high price, as price pushes higher, major short-squeeze is imminent.

And when that occurs gold price should explode and rocket very quickly to my next price target of $1,540. For the fast move up to happen, any pullback now should stay above $1,410.

Short-sellers should be in a panic mode now, and may be ready to capitulate

Gold and Silver Price is set to Rocket up again

As more and more people around the world come to realize that the global monetary system is going to collapse and that all fiat currencies is going to be worthless, demand for gold and silver is only going to continue to grow at an accelerating pace. 

With accelerating demand and a very inelastic supply curve, prices for gold and silver has no where else to go but up, and up, at an accelerating rate.

Current price chart is showing that gold and silver price is set for another price explosion to the upside.

Gold above $1,414 Per Ounce, Brent Crude above $110, West Texas Intermediate touched $100 per barrel today

As the pace of the US Federal Reserve's Money Printing activities accelerates to unprecedented level, the inflationary impact is now being felt everywhere, triggering massive unrest in the middle east, and soon to spread world-wide, Gold, Silver, Oil and all commodities has sky-rocketed in price.

Here is an updated chart of gold price from today.

The bull is definitely winning.

Gold In Breakout Mode

Gold has broken above my key price level of $1,390 per ounce. Price broke above $1,400 per ounce on Monday 21-February 2011.

The stage is now set for gold price to rocket up as the short-sellers get squeezed and stampede out of their position or get liquidated.

Silver Short-Squeeze Intensifies

We saw another over a dollar rally in Silver on Monday even though the US market was closed for the President's Day holiday.

At the current pace, Silver's $50 per ounce price is not far around the corner. As the short-squeeze intensifies, and the short-sellers panic or get liquidated, we may see a $3 to $5 daily price rise very soon, as long as key support of $29 - $30 per ounce is not violated on any pullback.

Looks like the bull is winning this one.

Silver Breaking Out: Short-Squeeze Intensifying

As expected per my previous post, the stage was set for a fast short-covering rally following a price break above my key price level of $29 per ounce in silver (see chart below)

In just 9 trading days upon breaking above the $29 mark, silver price has rocketed almost $4.00 per ounce, a very gigantic-size movement in silver price, and can only be an indication that the short sellers are panicking and desperately need to cover or be liquidated.

In the last two days alone, Silver Price rallied over $1.00 per ounce each day, an indication that the speed or pace or momentum of this breakout is in acceleration mode.

There were very few profit-taking activities as silver close the day near the high, another indication of the intensity of the short-squeeze.

At closed on Friday 18th February 2011, CME announced yet another increase in margin requirement for gold and silver futures contract, another desperate attempt in suppressing the price of gold and silver. Should the impact be only temporary, the stage will be set for a parabolic price rise as "JP Morgan's Silver Price Suppression Scheme" comes unraveled.

Short-Squeeze Imminent in Gold and Silver

Silver has broken above key resistance area at $29 and is now on the verge of rocketing up, squeezing short-sellers.

Gold is now at key resistance zone $1,390, a sustained break could trigger a fast short-covering rally.

China May increase gold Holding to 10,000 Tons

As reported by King World News, Global Economist David Hale made remarks at a conference in Cape Town South Africa that various Chinese officials have proposed making China’s gold holdings 10,000 tons, larger than that of Fort Knox.  

Hale also stated, “The odds very much favor China making, over five years, very large gold purchases, and this in turn makes me bullish on the gold price.”

Hale went on to mention, “China will probably start to buy gold in the near future, but they won’t report it for two or three years.”  Hale noted, “This would be a huge development for the gold market.” 

This is extremely bullish for gold prices.

Silver Futures Contract Specifications

Silver futures trading allows traders to make significant profits from short-term changes in the spot price of silver. Futures traders can profit from an increase in the price of silver with a buy-to-open or bet on a decrease with a sell-to-open order. The cost, or margin deposit, for a trade in either direction is the same.

Standard Silver Contracts

The standard silver futures contract is for 5,000 troy ounces of silver. The contract product symbol is SI. In December 2010, silver was about $29 per ounce, so one futures contract was worth $145,000. Individual traders often prefer the smaller e-mini futures contracts. The e-mini silver -- symbol 6Q -- has a contract size of 1,000 troy ounces.

Margin Requirements

To open a silver futures trade, the trader must put up a margin deposit in the amount dictated by the futures exchange. The margin deposit is just a fraction of the value of the silver contract and allows the trader to control a large amount of silver with a relatively small amount of capital. In December 2010, the initial margin deposit on the standard silver futures contract was $10,463. The e-mini silver contract required a deposit of $2,093.

Ticks and Values

Futures contracts have a minimum price change called a tick. On the standard futures contract, the tick value is 1/10 of a cent per ounce. For the trader, each tick change in the price of silver is worth $5.00. The e-mini silver contract also has a minimum price change of 1/10 of a cent. An e-mini silver tick is worth $1.00. Small changes in the price of silver can add up to significant value change in a silver futures contract. A 20-cent price change in silver is worth $1,000 on the standard silver contract and $200 on a e-mini contract.

Profits and Losses

At the end of each trading day, the profits or losses of a silver futures trader's open positions are determined and compared to the margin maintenance requirement. For the standard contract, the maintenance margin is $7,750 and for the e-mini contract it is $1,550. If any losses push the trader's equity below these levels, a margin call will go to the trader to put more cash into his trading account or the position will be closed by the broker.

Gold and Silver Price is Set to Explode

As the US Federal Reserve Money Printing Business a.k.a. Quantitative Easing continues to accelerate in order to keep pace with the purchases of the ever accelerating budgetary shortfalls / budget deficit, those excess money has to find some place to go.

For now, most of those excess money or liquidity has gone into commodities such as food, metals and crude oil, making those commodities not affordable to the common people, causing starvation and hunger. Inflation has already triggered worldwide uprising in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, and soon to spread all over the world. 

In order to hide the true effect on non-stop money printing activities, and flooding the world with excess paper money, the US Federal Reserve has resorted to Gold and Silver Price Suppression activities. But soon the tide will overwhelm and over-run the Federal Reserve attempt to hold Gold and Silver Prices down. When that happens, gold and silver prices, having been held down for so long, will explode to the upside.

When that happens, and the short-sellers in gold and silver contract are forced to cover, as silver price breaks above $30 per ounce, the next up target for silver is $50 per ounce, and when gold price breaks above the $1,430 per ounce, the next upside target for gold is $2,150.

As the short-sellers panic, the speed of price explosion in gold and silver, can be extreme. Some upside targets for silver is $500 per ounce, and gold at $5,000 to $10,000 per ounce. 

Gold and Silver Pullback May Have Ended

A sharp rally off the lows in gold and silver is a clear indication that short-sellers have once again failed in their attempt in holding gold and silver prices down for an extended period of time. A break above $29 for silver and $1,370 in gold is the first indication that the pullbacks in gold and silver has ended.

With no end in sight for the US Federal Reserve's money printing activities (quantitative easing), which has caused massive inflation worldwide, the factors that has led to revolution and uprising in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, which can quickly spread globally, gold and silver's prices is poised to explode. A sustained break above the above-mentioned price levels could trigger massive short-covering rally that could quickly rocket silver price up to $50 and gold to $2,150.

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Silver is still in a Pullback Mode

Silver, just like gold, is in a pullback mode. Supports are $25, then if that does not hold, next support below is $20.

Once the current pullback, a shakeout of the weak hands,  is completed,  Silver should rocket up, as it is in backwardation all the way up to 12 months forward.

Gold is still in a Pullback Mode

Gold price is still declining, and based on the current declining momentum, price may have to go down much further before stabilizing.

My Technical Supports are 1). $1,330, then if that does not hold, next support below is 2). $1,260 - $1,270, then 3). $1,230.

For now the Key Resistance Level is $1,390.

Silver in Backwardation: Price Ready to Rocket

Very important development in the Silver and Gold Market was reported by King World News:

“Silver is in backwardation not just in the short-term, this time it is extending twelve months forward!  

The last time this happened Eric was in January of 2009.  Over the next few weeks silver rose from about $10.50 to $14.50, a roughly a 40% move higher.  The key to understanding backwardation is that the price must rise to entice holders of physical metal to sell and accept a national currency in return.  I think we can expect a similar event to repeat over the next few weeks.  

A similar type of move would clearly put silver well above its previous high.  What this backwardation shows is that there is a disconnect between the physical and the paper markets in silver.  As I said previously, the silver shorts simply cannot hold the paper price down here any longer without seriously discrediting the paper silver market as a price discovery mechanism.

Gold is not in backwardation, nevertheless the demand for physical gold is extremely intense.  With the sentiment indicators at very low levels, it suggests we are about to see a stunning short covering rally in gold.”

Gold and Silver in Consolidation

Gold and Silver are currently in a pullback / consolidation mode, a setup for the next major move to the upside.

Japan's First Gold Vending Machine

Bloomberg News: "Makishi Rokugawa says he’s installing the first gold vending machines in central Tokyo so Japanese consumers can invest in “something real.”


A model displays Japan's first auto vending machine for gold and silver coins at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. 


Silver Shortages 

• Reuters reported shortages of 1 kilo gold bars in Asia last week. 
• Sprott Asset Management reported that it was experiencing difficulty sourcing 1,000 oz silver bars.
• Zero Hedge reported that Bullion Vault, the digital gold provider, had run out physical silver inventories in Germany (and possibly elsewhere) and was advising clients to buy silver from other sources. 
• Zero Hedge also reported yesterday that some smaller bullion dealers in the UK were having difficulty sourcing all silver bars and had delayed delivery of silver bars (including 1 kilo silver bars) until February.

Hedge And Profit From the Coming Monetary Collapse

As the history of the 1929 Great Depression repeats itself and the resultant predictable yet foolish scramble by Central Bankers around the world to print money into oblivion in their erroneous belief that it will avert the eventual monetary collapse, we must prepare ourselves for the eventuality. Because of the unpredictability of human nature, that eventuality is impossible to forecast, hence we must be prepared way before the the proverbial "#@*&" hit the fan.

We are already witnessing history in the making, one that our current generation has not experienced, the collapse of western nations, one after another, under the weight of their own debt as a result of their consumption binge over the last twenty years, starting with the collapse of Iceland which then spread to Greece and Ireland, and now Portugal which should then be followed closely by Italy, Spain, Britain and then eventually the United States of America.

We must be proactive in out preparation for the eventuality. When countries are not able to pay off their debt they always resort to printing money out of thin air hence debasing their currency. This is not a new phenomena as the great Roman Empire did it just before it collapse. The endgame is always the same, monetary collapse and hyperinflation.

Fortunately, for those with great foresight, there are many ways to protect our wealth from the collapsing paper money.  One of the easiest ways is to convert their paper currency into real assets such as gold and silver. Gold and silver is the asset class that has been tested throughout human history.

For a general guideline as to the "Timing" of the various dynamically interconnecting unfolding events, the visual diagrammatic presentation below by Gordon T Long is a good one.