Thursday 24 April 2014

A stark opening reversal

Whilst equities flipped to the downside in the opening 30mins of trading, the precious metals snapped sharply higher. Gold and Silver saw net daily gains of 0.6% and 1.1% respectively. Near term outlook is however still bearish.


GLD, daily


SLV, daily


Summary

*I am short SLV, seeking a break of the 2013 lows (SLV <17.75) within the near term.
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Today's opening reversal was on VERY heavy volume. The problem remains that the bigger weekly/monthly cycles remain bearish.

Indeed Gold tried to break above the 200 day MA..but failed.

With the FOMC set to announce QE-taper'4 next Wednesday, there will likely be renewed downside pressure on the metals.