Bill Moyers and Trevor Potter On Big Money's Election Effect

Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Trading Places, Gilded Rage

Coiling, coiling, coiling for a move...

Much of this selling in stocks and also in the precious metals appears to be tax related, and highly artificial. I would not call it panic, but let's just say that it is not based on fundamentals, especially with regard to market supply and demand in 'real things.'  The valuation of paper is another thing altogether.

I think the election has unhinged financial television. They seem to be off in some alternative reality where they are gripped by a fear of an imminent pigmageddon. 

Gold and silver look like a good long term place to store some provisions.

See you Sunday evening.

SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts

"At length corruption, like a general flood,
Did deluge all, and avarice creeping on,
Spread, like a low-born mist, and hid the sun.

Statesmen and patriots plied alike the stocks,
Peeress and butler shared alike the box;
And judges jobbed, and bishops bit the town,
And mighty dukes packed cards for half-a-crown:
Britain was sunk in lucre's sordid charms."

Alexander Pope

This still looks like hissy-fit tax selling.

CME Loosens Margin Requirements On Gold and Silver and other Contracts

The CME has reduced margin requirements on quite a few of their traded instruments.

In the case of gold and silver futures contracts, the reductions seem designed to bring the margins paid by specs more in line with those required of 'the professionals.'

Volume on the CME is lagging. Perhaps they are starting to feel the pinch.

Lower prices are no substitute for meaningful reform.

Full clearing memo from the CME 15 Nov 2012