The gold crash

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The Market Ear on the gold puke.


All good things…

….must come to an end. Gold is puking, putting in the biggest down candle in forever as it breaks below the short term trend channel. The 50 day comes in around $2635, and the bigger trend line around $2600.

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Can’t handle the dollar

Gold waking up to a “new” world where it simply can’t take the dollar strength.

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The gold vs rates gap

Imagine rates start to matter for gold…

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Goldilongs

The crowd is very long gold.

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Beware potential gold sellers

CTA downside convexity in gold could get “dynamic”…

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We could add that gold ETFs are brimming over. 

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It may not be all bad for gold in the medium term if you believe that US deficits will face some kind of bond vigilante reckoning. 

I don’t. 

Fewer wars, plus an inflationary American boom coupled with a deflationary global bust, are not promising for gold. 

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.