Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Wonderland - Non-Farm Payrolls Report on Friday

 

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” 

Garry Kasparov 

 

“While the Senate goes on break during a deadly pandemic, they're telling us peasants to go back to work, because the billionaires need more billions.   

Some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.” 

Oliver Markus Malloy 

 

"There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.   Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.   In this respect our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were human: they did not believe in plagues."

Albert Camus, The Plague

 

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." 

John Milton, Paradise Lost

 

Stocks were slumping today, in part because of weak ADP jobs number and the record resurgence in Covid cases and hospitalizations in the US.

But in the quiet of the afternoon, they managed to rally themselves, drifting higher to close in the green.

Gold and silver managed to hold and extend their gains.

The Dollar slumped down to the 91 handle.

VIX ticked back up a bit.

Let's see how things shake out with the Payrolls report numbr on Friday.

Have a pleasant evening.

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Malignant - Metals Soar After Calculated Option Expiration Takedown

 

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” 

Søren Kierkegaard

 

“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election. There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results.  And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that." 

Bill Barr, US Attorney General 

 

"Gold and silver had a follow on hit this morning, but they took much of that back into the afternoon.  Gold in particular hit its 50 percent Fibonacci retracement support level intraday.   This was a buy point in the metals for me, fwiw.   Silver rebounded with a vengeance.  Bought that on the slump too.   It does look to me like the usual wash and rinse action we see around a big contract month expiration, and is often a multiday event.  There is no bigger contract month for gold than the December contract.  And this does seem to be an annual event. Especially with the regulators asleep at the switch."

Jesse, 30 November 2020

 

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." 

Charles Mackay 

 Gold and silver rebounded sharply today.

The Dollar resumed its decline.

Stocks soared, but gave up a chunk of their gains in the evening.

I reduced the size of my miner positions a bit late today.  They were a bigger bet than I like to carry, but it was worth it.

The bottom and the cause of the decline were telegraphed pretty clearly.

It was the grift.

Maybe it's time to stop believing the grifters, to let go of the sweet and simplistic delusions of their lies, and come home.

Out of the images and shadows into the light.

Have a pleasant evening.

 

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - This Attractive But Deceitful World - Gold Hits 50% Fibonacci Retracement

 

“Only the humble believe him and rejoice that God is so free and so marvelous that he does wonders where people despair, that he takes what is little and lowly and makes it marvelous.  And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly.  God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings.  God marches right in.  He chooses people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one would least expect them.  God is near to lowliness; he loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.” 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reflections on Advent 

 

“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, or even a duty.  Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction."

Simone Weil

 

"These are suitable feelings towards this attractive but deceitful world.  What have we to do with its gifts and honours, who, having been already baptized into the world to come, are no longer citizens of this?  Why should we be anxious for a long life, or wealth, or credit, or comfort, who know that the next world will be every thing which our hearts can wish, and that not in appearance only, but truly and everlastingly?  

To those who live by faith, every thing they see speaks of that future world; the very glories of nature, the sun, moon, and stars, and the richness and the beauty of the earth, are as types and figures witnessing and teaching the invisible things of God.  All that we see is destined one day to burst forth into a heavenly bloom, and to be transfigured into immortal glory." 

John Henry Newman 

 

Gold and silver had a follow on hit this morning, but they took much of that back into the afternoon.

Gold in particular hit its 50 percent Fibonacci retracement support level intraday. 

This was a buy point in the metals for me, fwiw.

Silver rebounded with a vengeance.   Bought that on the slump too.

It does look to me like the usual wash and rinse action we see around a big contract month expiration, and is often a multiday event. 

There is no bigger contract month for gold than the December contract.   

And this does seem to be an annual event.  Especially with the regulators asleep at the switch.

Stocks were week, most likely for the end of the month profit-taking and rebalancing. 

The election seems to be a done deal, except for some fantastical stories from snake oil salesmen and the purveyors of clickbait.

The COVD pandemic is still kicking, and taking a toll.  

The talking heads were whining that the VIX remains elevated.   How dare it see risk in these markets.

 Let's see how the rest of the week goes.  

Have a pleasant evening. 

 

Who is the father of this ugly financial system?

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Half Day - Nap Time

“People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.” 

C. Wright Mills 

 

"They do not see the image of Almighty God before them, and ask themselves what He wishes. And, for the same reason that they do not please Him, they succeed in pleasing themselves. Hence, they become both self-satisfied and self-sufficient; – they think they know just what they ought to do, and that they do it all; and in consequence they are very well content with themselves, and rate their merit very high, and have no fear at all of any future scrutiny into their conduct." 

John Henry Newman 

 

“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory, or one of unthinkable horror.” 

C. S. Lewis

 

Gold and silver took an early on hit in the NY trade, as the option holders from earlier these week who were in the money took another gut check. 

Is that it? 

Do we bottom now that their mischief is managed? 

Let see what happens next week. 

We are now entering a seasonally strong period for the metals. 

Stocks reached for a high note. 

The Dollar fell again. volatility also fell, despite the breaking news of the assassination of the chief scientist of Iran's nuclear program. 

Dolly and I had some leftover turkey for lunch and we are now ready to succumb to the power of the nap. 

Snuggle on, Dolly.

Have a pleasant weekend.