17 July 2025

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Worldly Rule By Force and Fear

 

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Matthew 11:28-30

"God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another.  I have my mission—I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.  I am a link in a chain, a bond of connexion between persons. He has not created me for naught.  I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

Therefore I will trust Him.  Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away.  If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.  My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us.  He does nothing in vain; He may prolong my life, He may shorten it; He knows what He is about.  He may take away my friends, He may throw me among strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me—still He knows what He is about."

John Henry Newman, Meditations, March 1848

"Be wary of those who cause divisions and undermine the faithful, in opposition to the teaching that you have learned.  Shun them.  For such people do not serve our Lord, but their own appetites and desires.  And by clever words and flattery they deceive the hearts of many of the innocent and easily led."

Romans 16:17-18

"In the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God.  Thereafter, any attack, even on the least of men, is an attack on Christ, who took on the form of man, and in his own Person restored the image of God in all.  Through our relationship with the Incarnation, we recover our true humanity, and at the same time are delivered from that perverse individualism which is the consequence of sin, and recover our solidarity with all mankind."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers From Prison

 

Stocks managed to extend their rally.   Netflix beat earnings and raised forecast after the bell.

VIX drifted lower.

Gold and silver struggled to hold their ground.

The Dollar chopped sideways on the 98 handle.

Stock option expiration tomorrow.

Force and fear are the weapons of the oligarchs. 

The unsustainable will not be sustained, both in markets and in the lives of the mighty.

Where are the snows of yesteryear?  

Have a pleasant evening.