The metals are capping are coiling under some fairly stubborn price resistance.
Let's see how they do if stocks take a short term drop.
Otherwise this looks like a delaying action, a cosmetic appliqué.
"what should you do to avoid being an idiot or a swine? Merely this: You should do something great, you should lay aside all the foolishness of a more of less long existence, you should become resigned to the fact that you will seem ridiculous to a race of janitors and bureaucrats if you are to enter the service of Splendor. Then you will know what it means to be the friend of God. The friend of God!"
Léon Bloy