There was intraday commentary on the early morning bear raid here.
This is a Non-Farm Payrolls week, in the non-active month of January.
There was no movement in or out of the Comex warehouses.
“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead