Price basis is the continuous gold contract price, aka 'spot.' At time of posting it is $850.
Be sure to read the 'fine print' on the chart. There are some important caveats.
We are heading into rough economic and geopolitical waters. Looking forward by early 2010 the weight of exogenous shocks and scandals could be rather surprising to some.
Several masters of the universe will be falling from the heights with their thrones following, providing rather pretty comet-like displays for the children. Their motto might be 'hubris: they just did not know when to quit.'
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem. You who murder the prophets, and abuse those whom God has sent as messengers to you. How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings. But you would not let me. As you have willed it, so your house is now yours to command— but it is made desolate.”
Matthew 23:37-38