The Silver Trust (SLV) chart below is projecting a bullish price objective of 190, which is considerably above the present price. Obviously, either this chart or the above chart of silver is wrong.

Hui Index

The Hui closed up 1.02 o 393.99, which is a slight positive divergence from the price of gold that closed down for the week. RSI has flattened out, but has plenty of room to move to the upside if it chooses to.

In contrast, the CCI indicator at the bottom of the chart is flashing overbought and STO looks like it is curling over. One or two days of upside action can change the indicators quite quickly, however.

Next up is the P&F chart for the Hui. It has a bullish price objective of 628, which is over 50% above its current price (393.99).

Gold Miners Index

The GDX weekly chart is quite similar to the Hui chart. RSI has room to expand to the upside, while the CCI indicator is flashing overbought. Unlike the Hui, the GDX actually trades and its volume is a bit troubling, as it has been declining on the rally higher.

Next is the P&F chart for the GDX. It shows a bullish price projection of 70, which is considerably above its current price (45.59).

Xau Index

The P&F chart of the Xau is the most bullish of all the precious metal charts. It has a price projection of 274, which is approximately 60% above its current price (171.27).

Hui/Gold Ratio

The ratio appears to have put in a double top that is BELOW the top of 0.59 back in 2006.

If the Hui is going to perform as the above P&F charts suggest, this ratio is going to not only have to break above its double top at 0.55, but it will have to bust through the old high at 0.59 from 2006 as well – and stay there. Resistance must become support.

The next phase of the gold bull will not be sustainable until this high is taken out.

Gold/Xau Ratio

This ratio will have to fall well below 4 for a sustained rally higher in the Xau to occur.

Summary

As Eddy George, former Governor of the Bank of England once remarked: “We looked into the abyss….” And fortunately there wasn’t a breeze blowing this time, as all the Kings Men might have ended up at the bottom of the chasm.

It was a very close call, and neither the play nor the drama is yet over – not by a long shot. If the global financial system makes it out of this one unscathed hell may yet freeze over. It may not happen today or tomorrow – but happen it will. It is not a question of it, but when.

The band plays on and the dancers keep dancing – until the music stops. Providing the music is what appears to be an endless source of credit. But appearances can be deceiving – and deadly wrong. The following quote is proof positive that some of the largest and supposedly most sophisticated market players are getting it very wrong:

October 5 – Financial Times (Peter Thal Larsen, David Wighton and Ben White): “Bankers are counting the cost of the crisis… The numbers are large: this week alone, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and UBS have announced asset writedowns of almost $13bn between them for the third quarter of the year. This comes on top of losses already disclosed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan Chase have yet to outline their own exposures but are also expected to have suffered setbacks. And this splurge of red ink has been surprisingly well received… Analysts at Morgan Stanley describe the blood-letting as ‘cathartic’. Indeed, it even produced some apparently perverse results. ‘It seems the more money you lose, the more your shares go up,’ one investment banking chief observes.”

And the most troubling factor amidst all that is going on is that the key players are in a state of denial. Not only will they not fess up – they are actually coming up with newer and “better” gimmicks to try to paper over the mess. The following sounds very much like the proverbial jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.

October 5 – Financial Times (James Mackintosh): “…Banks have upwards of $200bn - some estimates say as much as $400bn - of unsold loans used to back leveraged buy-outs (LBO’s) sitting on their balance sheets, and they are desperate to dump them. But the buyers also have a problem. Private equity and hedge fund groups typically borrow to invest, and the credit squeeze which caused the banks' LBO problems has also made it harder for the funds to secure finance. Now big banks are trying to solve both problems by offering to lend to the funds - as long as they use the money to buy the unwanted LBO loans from the banks. ‘The banks are saying, ‘If you buy my loan above market, we will give you more leverage,’ said one investment banker. ‘They are taking market risk and turning it into counterparty risk.’”

The above underlined sentence is what bookies do – it’s called laying off risk, as in laying it off onto others, any other, as long as you lay it off – away from yourself. 

Are there any segments of the economy that are doing well? Of course there is – there always is. The merchants of death are raking in the profits.

US tops in Weapons Sale to Developing World

By Masood Haider

NEW YORK, Oct 1: “The United States continued to lead the world in supply of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, said the New York Times citing a Congressional study. Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers.

The announcement of major new arms agreements with Pakistan last year renewed debate over whether the Bush administration was elevating its counter-terrorism priorities above its pledge to spread democracy around the world, the newspaper said.

Pakistan was a major recipient of American arms sales in 2006, including the $1.4 billion purchase of 36 new F-16C/D fighter aircraft and $640 million in missiles and bombs. The deal included a package for $890 million in upgrades for Pakistan’s older versions of the F-16.

At the same time, the State Department’s own survey of global human rights in 2006 noted a variety of shortcomings in Pakistan’s record on human rights and democratization, the Times noted.

However, the newspaper pointed out that the Bush administration had argued that it was important to maintain the support of a nuclear-armed Pakistan in the broader counter-terrorism fight, particularly as Al Qaeda and Taliban regrouped in the North-West Frontier Province along the Afghan border.

In 2006, the United States agreed to sell $10.3 billion in weapons to the developing world, or 35.8 per cent of these deals worldwide, according to the study.

Russia was second with $8.1 billion, or 28.1 per cent, and Britain third with $3.1 billion, or 10.8 per cent.

Pakistan concluded $5.1 billion in agreements to buy arms in 2006, followed by India with $3.5 billion in agreements and Saudi Arabia with $3.2 billion.

The combined value of arms sales worldwide to both developed and developing nations in 2006 reached $40.3 billion, a decline of nearly 13 per cent from 2005.”

The war to end all wars..? We don’t want war – we just want to sell arms.

Why not give peace a chance? - Before it’s too late.

Many of the markets appear to be overbought: the stock market, commodities, oil, the precious metals, real estate, to name but a few. All brought to you by an endless supply of credit that started long ago under the guidance of Sir Alan and his band of merry men. It appears that some corrections may be forthcoming.

As always, I prefer physical gold to any and all assets. The less I have to “pay” for it – the better. Now is a good time to have some spare cash on hand along with some gold and silver – just in case the King’s Men fall into the abyss. Debt should be avoided whenever possible. Safety nets cannot possibly hurt – they’re like insurance, hopefully you never have to use them.

I am looking to buy things “on the cheap” that when you drop them on your foot it hurts. For reasons mentioned over and over I am looking for a higher low in natural gas as a buying opportunity for a strong seasonal trade. See the market table indicator for updates (at bottom of bulletin board main page). There were no changes to the gold stock portfolio this week.

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