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Late Friday afternoon in New York (April 12, 2013) gold plunged through the critical support level around $1525 level that has held resolutely since the start of this 19 month correction from $1900 in September 2011. In the process of this sudden drop, confidence in gold by long term investors has been badly shaken.

The sad thing is that this late afternoon selloff was an orchestrated event by people wishing to see the gold price lower so that they could cover short positions in the paper gold markets. Proof of this is that London PM fixing on Friday was $1535. Once the London physical market closed, the orchestrated selling in the paper markets gathered momentum. By the close of the Comex paper gold market, gold had dropped $60 in just the last couple of hours on very high volume.

This is not something new. Observers of the gold market have been aware of many other occasions where similar events on a smaller scale have taken place on Friday afternoons. There is little point getting one’s knickers in a knot about this because every short sale in the paper market has to be covered by a corresponding purchase in due course. Thus if people who bought into the selling spree simply hold onto their positions, a short squeeze will eventually develop as the short sellers try to cover their positions, causing the gold price to rise.

Often the physical markets come to the rescue as the lower prices generated by the Friday selloff sparks increased buying in the physical markets, helping to spur the recovery. The result is that the price of gold recovers fairly quickly after a Friday afternoon selloff. The coming week will show whether this happens again this time.

In January this year I published an article indicating that there seemed to be a reasonable chance that the long gold correction was over. That article indicated that if gold dropped below $1636, that the analysis was incorrect and that something else was happening. Gold did drop below $1636 and has continued to decline, proving that the January analysis was faulty.

At that time last January I had assumed that the rise from $1540 to $1790 in 2012 was the first upleg of the new bull market and that the correction to $1636 was the first minor correction of the new bull market. These were incorrect assumptions. The big correction from $1900 in September 2011 was still under way. The low had still to be reached.

In my Keynote speech to the Sydney Gold Symposium in 2011 I had a target of $1480 for the low of the expected correction. Despite several plunges into the low $1500’s, the price never achieved that $1480 target. The low price for Comex was $1523 and the lowest PM fixing was $1531 in late December 2011.

It bothered me from time to time that gold had not achieved my target. Now the late Friday selloff last week has driven the gold price to a closing level of $1477, finally reaching the target of $1480 set 19 months ago. What remains to be seen is whether this target holds and that the bull market resumes. The coming weeks should indicate what is happening.

What we need to look for is a swift recovery to above $1500 and an ongoing strong up-move in a truly impulsive manner. The fundamentals for holding gold are as strong as ever. Gold is an insurance against a range of financial disasters that we don’t need to go into now. You do not cancel your fire insurance when you can see fires burning all around you.

Certainly confidence in gold has been shaken and sentiment indicators are at record lows in some cases. This is exactly what one would expect at a major low in the market after a brutal 19 month correction. The conclusion is that factors are now in place which could support a major low in the gold price.

Alf Field

14 April 2013

ajfield@attglobal.net

(Note that I will be on holiday with my family in Fiji for the next week and will be out of email contact until late April. I will be unable to respond to emails during that period.)

Disclosure and Disclaimer Statement: The author has personal investments in gold and silver bullion, as well as in gold, silver, uranium and base metal mining shares. The author’s objective in writing this article is to interest potential investors in this subject to the point where they are encouraged to conduct their own further diligent research. Neither the information nor the opinions expressed should be construed as a solicitation to buy or sell any stock, currency or commodity. Investors are recommended to obtain the advice of a qualified investment advisor before entering into any transactions. The author has neither been paid nor received any other inducement to write this article.

 

 

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Field summed it up well, "You do not cancel your fire insurance when you can see fires burning all around you."

Nothing has changed in the human condition since humans lived in caves: when enemies prowl the dark you hunker down with your weapon at the mouth of the cave, move your loved ones and supplies out of harm's way, and wait for the dawn.
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The first possible reaction Jim C chooses to express how we humans should react has us moving the family into a cave. Where oh where is the technology that will save us from this condition? I would expect Jim to move into a Walmart, the place that most closely resembles nirvana for him. Heck, you could make one very defensive circle by rounding the beat up Buicks and Ford F150’s in the parking lot Jim C loves so much. The very least I would have expected Jim to state was that neighbors should gather together, form a little government and militia so that this new independent state would be organized well enough to keep the bad men out. Oops, that’s a lot like secession and expressing personal freedoms. Why it’s akin to the south saying “No more” to the north. Has Jim C switched sides? Probably better to just hide out and take your chances than to do anything that would make sense under the circumstances.

One knows a man’s soul based on where he shops and choses to live.

Walmart - creeping crawling odd ball people - wandering masses infected with every disease under the sun mindlessly filling shopping baskets with crud they don’t need using credit - shelves stocked with products made in far off lands which have taken 24% of the US population out of the work force - Jim C…

Caves - creeping crawling bugs - dank - cold - dark - Jim C…

There’s a pattern here.

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