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Friday, October 8, 2010

Gold (GLD Proxy)

What did Sinclair say?  Don't get your panties in a bunch?  No bull market goes straight up and certainly not the one in the old, non dividend paying relic of monetary value that sits like a lump in the middle of a raging paper currency war. 

Gold has taken a spotlight of late with everything from news about Gold ATMs being installed in places not called Abu Dhabi; places like oh... the US for instance.  Mainstream investment advisers have climbed aboard, not to a terminal degree - the bull has much longer to go - but to the degree that usually sets up to give newly minted gold bugs a real scare.  CNBC now touts gold from what I understand, and the metal is generally in the process of coming in from the cold (of a 20 year bear market, 10 years into its new bull market, which from here on promises not to be quite so stealth), and gaining acceptance as opposed to derision and laughter.

Technically, the upturned SMA 50 may provide support if not the EMA 20, which has sustained the entire move off the July bottom.  A gap fill and bounce off that MA would fit the bill for a hard, fast corrective enema for the gold bug camp.