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
"It is crudely general to suggest collective responsibility for the German populace. It is, however, fair to suggest that those who continued to defend the idea of Germanhood publicly as the war went on—when this had become synonymous with barbarity—were in fact renouncing their humanity for the sake of individual survival and peace of mind."
Panayiotis Demopoulos, Götterdämmerung: Suicide Music