Saturday Morning...
Well, here we all are awaiting the coming news from the Oct 23 Euro-zone leaders summit.
The aim of that meeting has been very simply expressed as "End the debt crisis once and for all".
I see nothing wrong with that!
It's probably high time someone stopped the Greeks from spending other people's money - even if the other people agreed to give it to them - and receive around 100% p.a. interest on their investment. Perhaps Ms Merkel will be knocking on my cabin door soon requesting that I cease from running up the old Amex card. That would certainly fix my own debt crisis once and for all.
So, if the European leaders achieve their lofty goal we might crown them each King-for-a-Day and quickly sell all our silver and take up stamp collecting instead!
But, if they fail (dear heaven forbid!) the Gold Punisher will doubtless swiftly reward them according to the folly of their knavish designs upon free market principles. (My tip: Hang on to your silver for now.)
Going forward...
There have been a few 'positivish' gold and silver stories on Bloombergs in the past 24 hours.
Here's the silver one...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...seen-ending-on-europe-crisis-commodities.html
(Yes, a good half of it is utter tripe and misinformation - and the positive spin droops a bit as you get further into it.)
and for gold...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...-streak-since-january-on-europe-optimism.html
I tend to view 'positive' P/M articles in the MSM as bearish indicators. Two articles together suggest to me that JPM have decided to draw some fresh blood into the silver scene.
They desperately want to cover their shorts, but the COT reports are now sitting at record lows in both gold and silver. i.e. They have scared everybody off!
So they now need to either mount another very serious price attack (goodbye silver stockpile!), or draw in some freshly leveraged 'suckers'. Last night's rise (or ruse!) suggests they might now let the price run up a bit, then hammer it down to harvest a new 'crop' of longs. Time (and silver) are running out for them.
So I'm expecting a possible 'false breakout' signal now, where the price might seem to rally for a few days then break sharply downward again. (Fortunately, the floor under USD$30 continues to hold nicely for now; after reaching that level the price generally quickly reverts upwards to the USD$31 level again.)
Good sailing crew! Have a happy weekend!
Weekend Closing spot : USD $ 31.33 (Last week's close $31.16)