SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Hope and Redemption

 

Thanks for the kind words from those who were concerned by my absence yesterday. It really was not all that much.

The family came down, one by one it seemed, with a 36 hour virus that was almost like a concentrated, flu-like illness.

The aches and chills, and inability to eat, or to hold on to any nourishment taken even in liquid form, were trying to say the least. There are certain foods that I had on Sunday afternoon that I should not like to see or taste again for quite some time. Ouch, and when I laugh now my ribs really hurt!

But at least we still have a warm home filled with warm hearts that care for one another. My goddaughter and I were the last to become ill on late Sunday afternoon, and by then my wife and son were already past the worst of it. I was attentive to both of them, because my wife in particular is recovering from thoracic surgery and I was concerned with her health and comfort. But that ability to share, that loving comfort, is a real joy and a genuine gift and consolation, because this sort of physical illness passes quickly enough.

There are those whose illness is a sickness unto death, the hell of being unable to love and to be loved. They are deep wells of alternating despair, rage, and fear, that bubble over like a boiling geyser of dark emotions.

How terrible it must be-- suffering, without hope or redemption. I cannot imagine anything worse.

Remember the poor during this season, but also those who suffer the worst poverty of all, that is, the inability to love. There are worst things that the temporary inability to accept and retain nourishment, although it may not seems that way when it is upon us.

Hope and redemption. These are the great gifts of Easter. The tomb is empty, and death is overthrown, and we are the heirs to eternal life. How can anyone ask for more?

Have a pleasant evening.

 

 

Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - That Was The Week That Was

"Over a protracted period of good times, capitalist economies tend to move from a financial structure dominated by hedge finance units to a structure in which there is large weight to units engaged in speculative and Ponzi finance. Furthermore, if an economy with a sizeable body of speculative financial units is in an inflationary state, and the authorities attempt to exorcise inflation by monetary constraint, then speculative units will become Ponzi units and the net worth of previously Ponzi units will quickly evaporate. Consequently, units with cash flow shortfalls will be forced to try to make position by selling out position. This is likely to lead to a collapse of asset values."

Hyman Minsky, The Financial Instability Hypothesis

Gold and silver had a very positive day today, running up to their short term overhead resistance intraday, and holding most of those gains.

There was intraday commentary on gold and silver here.

The moves next week will be much more meaningful than this short term run up off a very oversold condition.

I am ready for anything, given that the character of the bucket shop has not been improved.

 

I have included the economic calendar for next week.  There will be the *third* revision to 4Q GDP which, unless it is markedly revised lower to give some headroom for the next 1Q estimate, will likely be a trip to the snoratorium.

 

The macroeconomics and global situation are much more significant, even if the domestic trade and commentary barely gives it an exceptional nod or acknowledgement.

 

Remember me in your prayers, as I remember you.

 

Have a pleasant weekend.

SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - /Bubble On

/Bubble on.

Have a pleasant weekend.

 

 

NAV Premiums of Certain Precious Metal Trusts and Funds

Gold has hit my short term objective of the overhead resistance at 1185, albeit in three steps of up, down, up.

Sprott silver has taken its cash levels up to a much more healthy level with the sale of a bit more silver from its trust.

I think a lot of bearish sentiment was leaning into the FOMC day trade in both stocks and metals, and a number of other markets as well.    And with the expected deletion of 'patient' happening, but with the Fed whispering some rather dovish words, the markets were able to run to the upside and take the bears for a ride.

Market rigging does worth both ways in the short term. And it is easier when you get to see into the other fellow's hand.

And the shills and trolls provide the chorus.   Remember Jim Cramer's infamous video about how to manipulate the market 'legally'?

Longer term fundamentals manner. Short term only money and power matters. Intermediate is a mixed bag.

 

There is not a lot of doubt that the intermediate trend in the metals is and has been a policy thing, while providing a backdrop for the self-serving antics of the usual suspects.

 

It is all a part of the 'currency war.'

 

Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Restless

"Granted that we face a world crisis which leaves us standing so often amid the surging murmur of life's restless sea. But every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. It can spell either salvation or doom. In a dark confused world the kingdom of God may yet reign in the hearts of men."

Martin Luther King

 

Gold and silver were up again on the overnight with physical buying from Asia, and then hit early by paper selling in London and New York.

I believe that we will see a new 'fix' in London tomorrow for gold. What a fitting name.

I do not think that this new structure will change much, but I am keeping an open mind.

Things will not change while the Comex remains the bucket shop that it has become.  There is little genuine reform in the financial system, mostly window dressing and pious platitudes that mask the very heart of darkness.

We have taken the hope and light of the free world, and turned it into a den of thieves, and murderers.

 

Try to maintain a steady heart, and not be tempted to give yourself over to the madness. 

 

It will not be worth it by any rational measure. 

Have a pleasant evening.

 

 

SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Need Little, Want Less, Love More

"What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before?"

Henry Miller

The economic news this morning was a bit to the grim side.

There is no recovery.

 

To call it the result of policy errors is probably overly-generous.  It is the result of a careless selfishness and greed that have found deep roots in our hearts. 

 

We do have a generous surplus of well-crafted lies, spun with great effort by shills and sociopaths.  They are never more loud or more evident than around the watering holes of money and power.

We are a ship of fools. And a generation of madder and even more self-deceiving Ahabs are in the wheelhouse, hell bent on their own destruction, heading full speed in the night through uncharted waters.

 

It would be better for them if they had never been born.

 

Lord have mercy on us.

Have a pleasant evening.