Gold added about five bucks to its price from the time that trading began in the Far East Thursday…and the London a.m. gold fix. Then from there, it gave back seven dollars going into the p.m. gold fix…and after that, it gained over eight dollars until half past lunchtime in New York. Then a really serious seller showed up taking nine bucks off the price between then and the close of electronic trading in New York. It was pretty choppy trading all around…and it was obvious that every rally ran into serious resistance. The same could be said for silver. But according to the usual New York gold commentator [who is not Dennis Gartman, by the way], volume in gold was heavy…estimated at 140,658 contracts…”which involved a 21.6% surge in the last half-hour. The presence of such determined buyers and sellers during the floor session is unusual.”

Wednesday’s open interest in

by Jack Wogan

Currencies and other treasure are going down in worth but gold has always shown an approval with value to worth. It is usually believed that value of dollar increases when gold’s value reduces. Usually observing the market, we can close the same end result. It seems as if both the powers are reciprocal to each other. Though, it is also shown that of price of gold has not a very powerful pressure over dollar rates. On observing gold dollar index we can see the fluctuation in the price of gold. This index is calculated in such a way that the currency variation does not influence the gold trends.

This index shows that gold can be traded as vigorous and as weak asset also. On looking at the index, experts say that when dollars strengthen ups, value of gold goes down but these are not the joint moves. …

Once again, gold and silver mirrored each other’s price moves all through Thursday trading around the world. The high in the Far East in both metals was about 3:30 p.m. in Hong Kong…and from there, the trend was down. This trend picked up some steam about 10:00 a.m. in London and continued to accelerate to the down-side right through the Comex open. But around 8:45 a.m. in New York, gold and silver found a savior, as both metals turned on a dime…with gold picking up a hair over $20…and silver up 66 cents…from bottom-to-top during Comex trading.

It was all too good to last of course, as once the Comex floor traders went their merry ways, electronic trading took some of those gains back. However, both metals finished in the plus column yesterday…but gold just barely made it…up a whopping 40 cents!

I’ve commented before [several times over the last couple of

Gold tacked on about $10 in early Wednesday morning trading in the Far East. But shortly before London began trading, all the those gains began to disappeared. The low for the day was shortly after Comex floor trading started. From there, a spirited rally began, which went vertical right after London closed for the day…but [as always] there was someone standing there with a hammer to make sure that the rally went no further.

Silver was up a dime by 3 p.m. in Hong Kong in their afternoon yesterday…when it, too, began the long decline…with the bottom coming at 9:30 during Comex trading. The rally in silver ran into the same seller as gold…and at precisely the same time…and that was it for the day.

Initially, the precious metals shares held up well despite the onslaught…but the

The tiny double bottom that occurred shortly after the close of Comex trading on Wednesday afternoon may have been the low in gold for this move. Both were ever so slightly below $900. From there, gold rose gradually until about an hour after the London a.m. gold fix on Thursday morning. Then it declined gently until shortly after the London p.m. fix was in. From there, away it went…until a not-for-profit seller showed up in after-hours Globex trading in New York and capped the little price spike that occurred at 3:30 p.m. New York time.

Silver’s antics were the same as gold’s, although the price action was more exaggerated. Silver began to rise once the London a.m. gold fix was in…then declined until shortly after the London p.m. fix…and then, it too, was off to the

Morning Coffee, Canaccord Capital (02/17/2009)
SPDR Gold Trust (GLD: US$92.55), Net Change: -0.62,% Change: -0.67%, Volume: 14,717,061 Where does it end? The SPDR Gold Trust finished off a huge week by added another 15.3 metric tonnes (mt) of gold on Friday to hold 985.9 mt – another record. For the week, the ETF has added 118.67 mt of gold. The SPDR Gold Trust is now the second largest ETF in the U.S. – the largest being the SPDR S&P 500. It’s not just the SPDR Gold Trust that is attracting major investor interest. According to the Age, assets other gold ETFs touched all-time highs last Friday: ETF Securities’ Physical Gold fund rose to 2.299 million ounces and Zuercher Kantonalbank’s fund has record assets of 3.734 million ounces.

Commodity market watcher Dennis Gartman put it best when he said last week, “. . .We are a bit concerned about the speculative …