In the Financial Times, Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser to Allianz and chair of President Barack Obama’s Global Development Council, contrives seven explanations for gold’s unexpectedly poor performance lately, none of them involving surreptitious intervention in the gold market by central banks. His commentary is headlined “Why Gold Has Lost Its Shine for Investors” and can be found here:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4a29ee6e-350e-11e5-b05b-b01debd57852.html
This gold chart is only up to 2012 but u can easily see the huge cup and imagines the handle being traced out now
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28420560