tolly_67 said:There will be no spark to fire up P.M's..........there has to be a change in attitude towards them and this will take more than one or two events....if we are relying on the same people that are currently positive on gold to push the market forward then we are dreaming......the fact is that there is very little energy left to propel the bull on its next leg.
It will all take time......we are probably under more pressure in the sense that a lot of those in gold now will capitulate causing even further falls.....for a market to rise, buyers must outnumber sellers.
It is easy to ignore Court Jesters .........sideways.......... rant but if you look at the near 50% slump in gold in the mid 70's, it took the same amount of time to go from the bottom of the drop back to the level at which it started from...........the longer this consolidation, the longer the recovery........but this is important because it builds the base of a massive blow-off.....just like the 70's.
Very "Western Centric" reply. The change in sentiment is already here but not in your neighborhood. In the 70's there was no economic force in China and India and many other centres of economy. Today most Westerners are too poor or unable to invest significantly anyway. This is not a level playing field of equally weighted buyers and sellers. This is a paper Ponzi scheme of epic proportions. This will not be a gradual change in markets but a rapid shift from "all is good" to "what just happened". Everything will be just dandy until its not! just my take