This is one of the big four 'quad witch' weeks for US equities, and Goldman is bring out some IPO's including the CBOE. So as previously said, we'll look for shenanigans on light volumes as the trolley dodgers try to stay out of the way of intermittent headline risks and keep that perfect trading score going.
When frauds like the US financial markets become this obvious and blatant, it is frequently a sign that they are nearing the endgame, or perhaps more properly, an implosion. But never poke a cornered skunk, you have to smoke them out.
Gold
Silver Daily Chart
Silver Weekly Chart
HUI Mining Index - Weekly Chart
Some might notice a trend on this chart. That trend would not hold up in a general stock market crash.
US Long Bond
Big Daddy looks about read to take a dump.
SP 500 Sept Futures Hourly chart
SP 500 Longer Term Cash Chart
SP 500 Correlated to Bernanke's Quantitative Easing Program
Chart Courtesy of James Turk
“Depart from me, you accursed. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not comfort me.' They answer, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not care for you?' He answered, 'Truly I tell you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.’”
Matthew 25:40-46