Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - On Top of the World - Le Dénouement, à la Chinoise

“On top of the world,
Or in the depths of despair—
Happy alone is the soul that loves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,  Klärchens Lied, aus Egmont

Stocks were on a wild tear higher.

Let's chalk this one up to the words of Fed Chair Jay Powell who sees a strong economy permitting more interest rate increases.

Gold and silver were taken out to the woodshed and beaten lower, with the Dollar slightly higher.

Stocks are putting in another blow off top. Don't try and get in front of them, but this one will end up like the rest.

Our defining character is fraud in the service of Mammon.

And the Deep State is howling a hurricane.

Trumpolini is fortunate in his opposition.  Which is too bad, because he brings out the worst in his followers.  And unfortunately the opposition tries to answer in kind.   Too bad. Darkness cannot defeat darkness.

Little Dolly has been sitting in my lap, shivering with fear, since a cold front bringing thunderstorms has started rolling through. 

As a reminder, there will be a stock options expiration at the end of this week.

And a Comex precious metals option expiration next week on Thursday, the 26th.

The struggle to cover the physical gold withdrawals from the Hong Kong Comex listed warehouses continues. Not to mention the less visible, like Singapore.

There is certainly nothing happening with the gold warehouses in New York.  It is locked down tight, like a morgue.

Gold is flowing from West to East. It is the most striking phenomenon of modern monetary developments. And yet so few see it, and fewer remark on it.

Smells like teen spirit. Or is that desperation? The price action tells us something. What is it?

This is quite a wild party being thrown for us by the elite—   a bonfire of the vanities, we suspect. Part three, le dénouement.

And they all fall down.

Need little, want less, love more. For those who abide in love abide in God, and God in them.

Have a pleasant evening.

Comex Hong Kong Sees Biggest Daily Gold Withdrawal at 19.17 Tonnes - Mr. Float Goes to Asia

In Hong Kong when you buy gold and take it out of the exchange warehouses it is called a withdrawal.

In other words, you do something with your bullion besides letting it sit around in some exchange warehouse to be passed around and hypothecated 230 times.

The other day at the Hong Kong Comex Metals Exchange 19.17 tonnes of .999 gold kilobars were taken out.

That is about 616,329 troy ounces.  Taken out by buyers in a single day.  That is a new record for the young exchange.

I hear they have quite a few over-the-counter dealers now, whose mission it is to faciliate the offtake of physical bullion.

Maybe that is why the Comex Hong Kong exchange trading volumes are so low, but the physical offtake levels are so high.  They are serious about their business.

Not bad but still not as much as Shanghai does, overall.  See the second chart.

It is almost like the New York - London float of unencumbered gold bullion available for delivery is— melting away.

CME Is Delivering Hundreds of Tonnes of Gold Into the Markets, Almost Unnoticed

What, The Bucket Shop?  

Are they truly delivering 'tonnes' of gold into markets where people actually take delivery of the bullion and withdraw it from the warehouse?

Stop the presses.  Man bites dog.

 

Yes they seem to be.   Just not in the United States.

The CME has opened a futures market in Hong Kong and from reading the documents and looking at the warehouse reports it appears to be a market of 'physical delivery.'

And are they ever delivering as you can see below.  Since March they seem to have delivered 257 tonnes of gold bullion into Hong Kong.

 

I went over this a bit last night with Nick Laird, the Aussie data wrangler from near the Great Barrier Reef, who tends to ride herd on all things precious metals at Sharelynx.com.

 

Now there may be a hook in this somewhere.  We would have to determine how easy it is to roundtrip the metal in and out, even if that does not seem to be the way they do their gold business in Asia.  We do not know who is really playing on that exchange.  It could be the usual suspects.  Or it might be a new source of additional demand we must track into China.

 

But it certainly bears watching.