They really cant raise interest rates, traders are bailing from the fiat as we speak. Fear has always proven to make the market highly volatile. Traders turn to PMs for assurance and insurance on their own assets and the SGE vault is pumping it out and China's political stuff wont make that much of a decline they are still buying.
In a blog I wrote a little about correlation ... I am not saying you are wrong at all BTW nothing about trading is 100%
So my last post was about the correlation of crude oil and gold, war and location. Within all trades many correlations exist, its good to know and understand them, so you then can position yourself correctly. One of these correlations is the rise and fall of interest rates and the rise and fall of gold, since gold has no interest, it dips when interest rates rise and peaks as the interest rates fall, so that would indicate that you buy gold when rates are low and sell when rates are high. Because this is an accepted correlation, the central banks are watching the market for indication showing prolonged inflation, and have policies that could reverse this correlation. In fact the we saw this opposite reaction when rates rose the price of gold peaked in Europe and in India in 2011, this was an exception in decades of historical data. Many other factors can influence the bullion market, fear seems to move it the most.
Lots of variations and changes I feel needs to be brought in to usual relationships re: gold v rates v inflation v employment. Looking at just gold and rates without inflation and unemployment can lead to errors imo.
- Inflation v rates - not same as before. We now see deflation with low rates and attempts to revive inflation :idea:
- Low unemployment v inflation, old Philips curve etc not same. Stagflation of high inflation and high unemployment in reverse - deflation with low employment seems to be occurring.
- Low and -ve rates haven't stimulated inflation (I got this wrong expecting hyper-inflaiton!). This old thinking seems to have forgotten about expectations theory and relationship not proportional through different cycles of the economic grrowth.
- One of the biggest threats now facing governments is debt and delfation compounds that problem.
Borrow money cheap CHEAP place it in equities or other asset classes with high dividends or better returns. As mentioned with low -ve rates of interest and deflation - gold is not one of them.
Another factor wars are over. We have proxy wars and skirmishes where tools like Isis and Hezbollah will be used. Much cheaper to setup and dispose of with less political luggage.
Reason why gold rose so much and rises I also supported was US fighting a stupid losing war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bleeding dollars and incurring trillions of debt. Faced losing the dollar standard (same as Vietnam) hence the spurt in gold. However, some people have got carried away and with the withdrawal of troops and end of war still adjusting gold positions to BAU.
In summary $1300 was a pivot point for some time and failed.
Now testing $1200 (which has been breached) and in the absence of any major war then I can see $1100 tested in due course too.
Can't see it falling much below $1000 but who knows????
The SGE is surpassing what it did last year, and with the festival in India this week we should see gold a little higher as we have, they make up around 32% of the gold buyers worldwide. This November will really be interesting if the Swiss get their gold back from the US and it impacts the CHF and EUR in a way to drop the USD and drive the price of GLD up even higher. Yet it seems the market is keeping it below reverse signals even though the demand is high.