Farmboy, re your…
“I no longer think any of the ‘experts’ know where the price of the PM’s go next. Throw the charts to the wind, the PTB will push the levers of manipulation in whatever direction they wish, until that day when the levers no longer work.”
Hear hear on that Farmboy!! Seeing the SnP lose an entire year plus of gains in two weeks, and then see new highs? Seeing a US Dollar chart go straight up since June like a dot com stock chart.
Heating oil or diesel prices dropping like a rock? Way too many abrupt irrational and big moves, both ways. With this kind of action, a $100 up move in gold in two days won’t surprise me either.