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
"A new, invisible and at times virtual, tyranny is established, one which unilaterally and irremediably imposes its own laws and rules. Moreover, indebtedness and credit distance countries from their real economy and citizens from their real buying power. Added to this, as if it were needed, is widespread corruption and selfish fiscal evasion which have taken on worldwide dimensions. The will to power and of possession has become limitless." Francis I, 16 May 2013