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Whereas the American stock markets - according to their well-known seasonality patterns - put down a more or less powerful rally in those days from December 20 to the year-end which are traditionally low-volume days, both precious metals we consider went badly to the dogs.

Being absent any financially strong counterpart the notorious short-sellers in gold and silver could leave a lot of blood in the chart-technique-carpet undercutting (gold) or reaching (silver) the September lows that had seemed to be pretty stable:

The outlook: the stock markets are expected to tend upwards as early as the first week of the new year – and then turn down. Gold and silver: The first trading week in January will decide whether the long-term upwards trend in gold will continue, newly reaching the 1900$ soon and whether silver will newly target the 40$ mark or otherwise head for the 22$.

Dow Jones on monthly basis:

In the actual monthly 3 Candle GUNNER24 Up the Dow seems to close within the 3rd double arc for the third time. Closing prices within the important double arcs – in this case it’s a very strong resistance double arc – always indicate that the market technically wants to head for the next higher double arc (in case of up setups). So to speak they suggest that the trend will continue – whenever such may happen. The 4th double arc – at 14000 – won’t be activated as to be the next important monthly target before we’ll see a monthly closing price above the 3rd double arc (for January from 12720). After re-conquering the very important 2*1 Gann Angle for the third time December will close within the 3rd.

A close above 12200 indicates the upper line of the 3rd double arc as to be the target for this swing. 12543! As early as in the months of April, May and June the upper line of the 3rd double arc demonstrated its power of resistance. And that’s supposed not to be different in January, 2012!

Correspondingly, by reaching the Dow Jones targets we won’t only cover our daily long-position in the Dow Jones but also our daily longs in the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ-100 simultaneously:

As expected in the last issue the Dow did start the Christmas and year-end rally from its consolidation area – the first double arc - after all. At the moment it is consolidating above an important Gann Angle which comes from the 2011 high. It is going to head for the 2nd double arc until January 9, and since we are rather positioned at the end of this swing it will target the 12543 only for a very short time. So to speak it will spike from it violently. Such a conduct is indicated by the existence of the Upper Resistance Gann Angle that comes from the 2011 year-high as well. Also because of the natural resistance of the 2nd double arc it is just very difficult to be overcome on daily basis (closing price). Maybe the market won’t be able to last more than 1-2 days above the Upper Resistance Gann Angle before it turns down.

Gold – und silver sell-off – or a Christmas tale:

Just before Christmas, around 12/20, five metal traders of JP Morgan, three of Goldman Sachs and a couple of European metal traders (Deutsche Bank and a Scotsman) communicated by e-mail deciding: “Hey, those days until New Year we’re sitting around in front of our desks, all our hundreds of colleagues are in their well-earned holidays, and only we aren’t – damn it! Why don’t we just try something? Since we’ll have to be sitting around anyway we should be gilded for that unstintingly… Let’s make gold and silver fall, collect fat bonuses with our planned short-attack having a lot of fun – we’ll certainly have – anyway there’s nobody who’d be able to take us on.” Ok, no sooner mailed than done…

That’s how the story might have happened. By the market potency of the Big Banks a few traders achieved to shatter all the supports without any resistance because a lot of the potential counter-parts were – or still are – on vacation. They’ve produced a new silver double low put in panic every gold and silver bull… And the best is: perhaps they’ve built up one of the biggest bear traps of all the times leveling powerfully their shorts down at the lows yesterday and of course turning their positions.

Yeah, bear trap, that’s how it smells. I am a clear advocate for always referring to the volume when it comes to the meaningfulness of movements. That was completely missing last week. Pretty few sales volume at the right time in the determined support marks were enough those days to trigger off the placed stop-losses…

Yeah, bear trap this is the way it is looking like at the moment, because everything depends on the closing price of today – at least in the case of gold.

Gold monthly:

If the 1555 resist – I mean if not only the trading day of today closes above them but also the month and the year – for the time being I’ll work on the assumption that gold might perform the same way it did during both former “critical tests” at the support Gann Angle (green squares). For the first and the second “critical tests” show us that the red candle always closes narrowly underneath the support Gann Angle and then the next month re-conquers the support Gann Angle. The month that re-conquers the support Gann Angle always produces a higher low, ergo gold is not supposed to produce a lower low in January 2012 than it did in December 2011. A closing price above 1563 would make such a scenario very likely. If January produces a lower low short will be on the agenda until down to the 2nd double arc or the 2*1 Gann Angle (target about 1320).

Without many words here is the weekly 19 Candle GUNNER24 Up, presented for the first time in this issue:

Gold is fighting for the weekly support Gann Angle. The third test is actually taking place. And this angle won’t be clearly broken before we’ll see a closing price below 1540. Each closing price above 1563 will just show a deeper test of this angle. In case today doesn’t happen anything next week is expected to be decisive I think. Next week will have the normal trading volume again deciding definitely whether the lows of today will be significant.

If the support Gann Angle is broken significantly the following scenario will be expected to come about – the ABC correction until 1450 we sketched in the issue of 12/18:

In silver happens the same – a low trading volume is sufficient to release a significant sell-off – but unlike in the case of gold yesterday no new lower low was produced. At the moment it rather “smells” like a double low on monthly basis.

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