5/28 Clueless Gold World Slowly Waking Up
May 28 - Gold $323.90 up $3.70- Silver $4.86 up 10 cents
Clueless Gold World Slowly Waking Up
Closer and closer we get to gold derivative neutron bomb detonation time. I have felt all along that $325 might do the trick, but that is no magic number.
So far, the Midas gold analysis has been right on the money. We needed two closes over $305 (what Jim Sinclair needed) and then a close over $310 to set the stage for a super gold advance. We got that and then gold went back to check $305 resistance turned support. After it held, gold shot straight up. The same can be true with the gold derivative neutron bomb when gold CLOSES above $325. It may blow right away. It might take weeks. Or, it could take a slightly higher price, but not much. The important thing is that IT IS GOING TO BLOW!
One of the reasons why is that many gold producers remain clueless:
One of the most sophisticated gold investors there is in the United States called to tell me that he listened to the Placer Dome analyst conference call this morning. He said it was “pathetic.”
When asked about the Aurion hedge book, the Placer people said all they knew about it was what was in the public domain. That is like an investment group buying a nuclear power plant and not delving in to the safety systems. The power plant is about to blow by going nuclear and the Placer Dome guys are going to buy it anyway. They truly are PLACER DOOMED!
Just about as bad, my source said, was the analysts’ questions. You have got this huge gold derivative problem out there and they spent most of their time talking about rocks. They are clueless too. What a whacko industry!
One of the reasons the price of gold is really starting to move upwards in more volatile fashion is that GATA has reached “the tipping point.” Word is spreading all over the investment world that we are correct about the rigging of the gold price and about the massive gold short positions of certain bullion banks such as J.P. Morgan Chase, along with those of a good number of heavily hedged gold producers.
Gold sparks rush to unwind bets by Brian O'Connor in the Daily Mail, London
May 28, 2002 sent out by email earlier today is testament to that.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/business_story.html?
in_review_id=596986&in_review_text_id=565840
That story must have emanated from the AMA conference in London last week. It has GATA written all over it.
The feedback to me from that same conference is that what GATA had to say went over very well. That means many in the gold world are finally waking up to the real gold story. The more they look over GATA's evidence at our various web sites, the more bullish they are becoming, which means they are covering shorts and going long gold.
It gets even better. At the same time as the AMA conference, Sprott Securities of Canada put on a dog and pony show in New York. They presented 8 gold companies they like to the New York investment community. Goldcorp and High River Gold were among the presenters. I understand Jipangu was there also. A colleague spoke to someone who attended. This person said all anyone wanted to talk about was GATA, that all of the gold producers had a copy of Bob Landis’ scathing rebuke of Barrick and that they were murmuring about the Sinclair letters.
It is about the “pebble in the pond.” The circle of awareness that GATA is right is spreading fast in exponential fashion. That can only enhance short-covering and investment gold buying.
Ironically, GATA is in danger of becoming mainstream. Good grief! Our forces will soon be the majority and The Gold Cartel and misinformed gold bears will be in the minority.
Three more gold positives:
*Ashanti, Newmont, Barrick, Placer Doom, Aurion, Lihir, Newcrest, Sons of Gwalia, Anglogold, etc, remain massively short with excessive gold hedges. At least, that is the case as far as we can tell. How are they all going to cover at decent prices in a market that already has a 1700 tonne yearly supply/demand deficit?
*Volume today on the Comex was a huge 82,000 contracts. When gold surged over $325 per ounce, 25,000 contracts traded in that hour. The Gold Cartel is throwing everything they have at Hung Fat, Dr. No and friends and losing. Our guys even got help from enormous Goldman Sachs buying today - of all people (probably a hedge buy-back). Yes, the cabal managed to keep gold from closing above the critical $325 level, but that is not going to hold much longer.
*There are no near term gold caps to be filled on Comex. That is very bullish and leaves room for a breakaway gap in New York. Perhaps we will get that sort of ripsnorter gold day in the U.S. when the gold fuse ignites the gold bomb overseas.
Good times, which we have all waited so long for, are HERE!
The John Brimelow Report:
Indian ex duty premiums: (Tuesday) AM: $1.51, PM $1.35, with world gold at $ 321.50 and $321.10. Below legal import point. (Monday) AM: $2.88, PM $2.60 with world gold at $320.50 and $320.25. About enough for legal imports. India is definitely trying to adjust to higher prices. But suggestions that world gold is currently being driven by war related buying are clearly wrong.
An interesting story appeared yesterday in The Gulf News, headlined Dubai, reporting that gold traders there have been struggling to meet margin calls - as they did in October ’99. This is a useful reminder that the growth of the “unfix” business (e.g. borrowing rather than buying gold from bullion banks) by parties shipping into India and the Middle East has grown considerably in recent years. This means in practical terms that there is a vulnerable short interest above the market which did not exist formerly.
After Friday’s huge liquidation on Tocom on Friday - open interest down the equivalent of 3,354 comex contracts, erasing the significant gain of the previous two days - Japanese gold futures steadied up on Monday, pushing world gold to the high of the day, and again on Tuesday, adding 1014 comex equivalent today. Over the long weekend here, Japanese newspapers treated their readers to a series of stories to the effect that banks reported Q1 bad loans far higher than expected, that bond mutual funds lost 34.9% of their assets YoY, courtesy the public’s distress over the Enron and Argentine defaults, and that the banks have large volumes of bad loans to smaller borrowers which have not been properly surveyed by the regulators. Large scale buying on Tocom probably needs price stimulation from either a weak yen or a lower $gold price, but the reasons for bullion accumulation are not going away.
Last Tuesday, the Newsletter monitor Mark Hulbert reported on CBSMarketwatch that the gold timing newsletter services he follows were strangely unbullish as of last Monday evening. He interpreted this as positive for gold on a contrary opinion basis - a judgment which proved correct. See
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/sto...D7-498E73E3D628}&siteid=mktw
In a private communication to me, Mark reports that there has been no change in the average exposure of the gold timers since then, despite last week’s strength. This indicator is therefore still bullish. Interestingly, the timers with the best record are 60% bullish. Generally in his 20-year experience of monitoring newsletters, a divergence by the better newsletters in a sector is usually vindicated.
MarketVane’s Bullish Consensus for gold, although high at 83% on Friday, is down 3 points from its peak.
Although volume is huge on today’s breakout attempt (65,000 at 12noon - who is selling?) it seems possible that Martin Pring’s comments in his weekly may be prophetic:
“Chart 5 shows that the next level of resistance for the gold price itself lies at $327. After that it is pretty clear sailing until the $380-400 zone.”
Both on Monday and today, gold rallied during Japanese hours. This could be another interesting week.
JB
One GATA supporter sees it this way:
Thursday is first notice day on the June gold Comex contract. Be ready for a big move in either direction. What I'd really like to see, though, is for a whole bunch of the July silver longs to take delivery on their contracts. The amount of silver represented by these contracts is over twice the entire world's deliverable quantity of silver (364 million ounces versus around 150 million ounces). If that were to happen -- and I admit it, it is unlikely -- you will see the biggest short squeeze in history.
My take on what is going on is that the Gold cartel and its minions are desperately putting out shorts (thereby increasing open interest) in a last-ditch effort to contain the market. If they lose, and it spins out of control, you may walk into your office one fine day and discover that gold has opened $50 higher.
Mark Wallace
On the Placer Dome move:
PDG: reit buy - “has launched a US$1 billion bid for Australia`s AurionGold."
It looks like Chris Powell’s speculation about slowly covering shorts might be right on. To pay-up for an overhedged turd in any environment, more less this one, defies logic. Goldfields passed on AurionGold at a much cheaper price, when gold was substantially lower.
Best - DRS
More on the Wall Street sewer:
Houston, May 28 (Bloomberg) -- “Dynegy Inc. Chief Executive Officer Chuck Watson quit after investigations of the energy company's trading and accounting contributed to a 64 percent drop in its stock this year.”
Cartel Capitulation Watch is kicking in all over. The dollar closed right above 112 and is beginning to break hard after forming a massive top. The Dow is having trouble staying over 10,000 and the NASDOG, well - The Café contributors have covered that for a long time.
On the Café members who attended the AMA conference from various countries, I neglected to mention Sweden was represented by Tore Carolusson and his son. Highly regarded Paine Weber stock broker, Ware Smith, was represented by his son, Ware Jr., who came over from France.
MAHENDRA MANIA
Dear Bill,
Gold has passed major test against negative forces which normally brings gold down. This is 2nd time it happens in last 32 days, gold has smoothly passed through without any damage in negative planetary combinations. So now it is indicating that gold will move ahead from the current level. On Thursday we will see small correction in gold prices.
Great news for silver. We will see the prices for silver crossing to 5.10 US$ very soon (in few days) but great rising movement for silver will come after 2-7-2002.
Thanks
God Bless
Mahendra Sharma
mahendra@mahendraprophecy.com
www.mahendraprophecy.com
www.world-prophecies.com
How about that Reverend Murphy! His market analysis and performance tops what Wall Street has to offer by leaps and bounds.
A tip-o-the hat to Chuck C too, whose technical analysis has been terrific.
J-Pacific Gold Inc. announced it has “entered into option to purchase agreements for the four crown granted mineral claims known as the “Elizabeth Property” and for surrounding mineral claims known as the “Blue Claims” in the Lillooet Mining District, British Columbia, Canada. Collectively, the claims (approximately 1,600 hectares) will be referred to as the “Elizabeth Project.” The property is located roughly 35 kilometres northeast of the former gold mining town of Bralorne and 30 kilometres south of the Company’s Blackdome Gold Mine and has good road access. This region of British Columbia has seen mining activity since the late 1800s with the discovery of numerous gold deposits, including the Bralorne and Pioneer gold mines that alone produced 4.1 million ounces, making this the largest gold producing area in the Province.” For the full press release, please go to http://www.jpgold.com
I spoke with CEO Nick Ferris today, who is a long time GATA supporter and someone I have talked with on a daily basis for years. He thought this valuable acquisition might be a surprise to the BC mining community. This ground has been controlled by various parties for years and never consolidated. Modern drilling exploration techniques can be applied to the property, which has excellent grade. It has potential to develop into an economic gold deposit, which J-Pacific Gold would likely be trucked for processing to their Blackdome mill.
Nick is one of the brightest financial market CEO’s in the gold industry. I am a very happy J-Pacific Gold shareholder.
Café members might want to read this interview with Mike Ruppert. More evidence that the GATA story is spreading:
http://www.guerrillanews.com/counter_intel/boom_bust_echo/
The gold shares continue to fly. The XAU (88.65, up 2.81) and the HUI (145.65, up 4.72) both closed in new high ground. Those gold investors that took rinky-dink profits and are waiting for pullbacks to get back in are in danger of missing one of the grandest moves in history.
Golden Star Resources finished at $2.08, up 22 cents, and is on the way back up to its 1996 high of $21 per share. J-Pacific Gold finished in new high ground at 50 cents Cdn.
Gold is headed “To the moon, Alice, to the moon.” Just remember:
GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT
MIDAS
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