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Asia Buys Gold After Massive Single Trade Sell Off During Bernanke’s Testimony
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Asia Buys Gold After Massive Single Trade Sell Off During Bernanke’s Testimony
Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,714.50, EUR 1,292.99, and GBP 1,076.14 per ounce.
Yesterday's AM fix was USD 1,721.00, EUR 1,289.81, and GBP 1,079.13 per ounce.

Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)
Gold rose 1.5% ($23.80) on heavy volume in New York yesterday and closed at $1,712.60/oz. Gold rose marginally in Asia and then fell somewhat in European trading which has gold now trading at $1,713.41/oz.
Jitters about Iran and the Middle East are keeping oil near multi month record highs which is also gold supportive.
Wednesday’s drop of 5% means that gold is set for its worst weekly performance since December which is encouraging value buyers.
Gold was 1.5% lower in February which was negative from a technical viewpoint however gold remains 9.4% higher in 2012. Silver was over 4% higher in February despite Wednesdays falls and built on the gains seen in February.

Silver in Dollars – YTD (Bloomberg)
Wednesday’s sell off is being attributed to one massive sell trade of 31 tonnes on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange during Bernanke’s speech. There are rumours of a large US fund selling and also that the selling may have been by JP Morgan – rumoured to be acting on behalf of an Asian fund.
Who sold off and why is less important than the fundamentals of the gold market.
Absolutely nothing has changed regarding the fundamentals of gold which remain as sound as ever with broad based demand from store of wealth buyers, institutions and central banks internationally and especially in Asia. Good volumes have been seen on the Shanghai Gold Exchange in recent days.

Gold in Dollars YTD – (Bloomberg)
In India, lowest gold prices in a month saw strong physical bullion demand and physical buyers hunting for gold bargains to meet the wedding season demand.
India remains the world’s largest buyer of the yellow metal (900 tonnes/year) but China is expected to outpace them this year according the World Gold Council.
ETF holdings gained 238,674 ounces to a record high of 70.76 million ounces, showing that institutions and investors remain keen on gold. Also, options data has not changed since Wednesday’s price falls.
The gold-platinum spread dropped to just about $15/oz its lowest since mid-September, with supply disruption in jewellery and autocatalysts production, platinum has risen 22% so far this year, versus gold's gain of 10 percent.
Market watchers focus on Impala Platinum, the world's second-largest platinum producer, which has suffered 100,000 ounces of lost production in a six-week-long strike at its key Rustenburg mine. The company said it would restart production on the 5th of March.
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(Bloomberg) -- UBS Says Gold Flows to India Yesterday Strongest Since SeptemberUBS AG said its physical gold flows to India yesterday were about three times the average and the strongest volume since late September.
“A cheaper gold price on Thursday elicited a hard-to-miss response from physical players across various regions,” Edel Tully, an analyst at UBS, wrote today in a report. “Yet, it will probably take a few more days for physical demand to really come in with full force.”
SILVER
Silver is trading at $35.09/oz, €26.54/oz and £22.12/oz.
PLATINUM GROUP METALS
Platinum is trading at $1,700.50/oz, palladium at $710.00/oz and rhodium at $1,475/oz.
NEWS
(Reuters)
Gold inches up as buyers trickle back after selloff
(The Street)
Gold Prices Recover After Wednesday's Bloodbath
(Wall Street Journal)
US Mint's Silver, Gold Coin Sales Tumble
(Financial Times)
Brazil declares new 'currency war' against foreign devaluations
(Wall Street Journal)
Bernanke Faces Lawmakers Again
COMMENTARY
(The Telegraph)
Gold price will plunge below $1000 an ounce, bears claim
(Zero Hedge)
John Taylor Warns Of A "Highly Disastrous, Totally Uncontrollable Inflationary Conflagration"
(Zero Hedge)
Next Leg Of The Ponzi Revealed - Foreign Central Banks To Begin Buying US Stocks Outright Starting Today
(MarketWatch)
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Crap.....cat's outta the bag.
So they weren't buying Bernanke's story? huh....
they were happy to blowtorch silverbugz, tho
lol fuck you Trav
/k
At least he's back to normal.......we were getting worried for a moment there.
just about another kilo with that flash crash
Trav got blowtorched in the divorce, so he likes to point out every tiny paper "loss" experienced by anyone else.
Hey that shit isn't funny :(
No, it isn't. The fact that Trav is a sociopath who has driven everyone and everything important away is tragic. But he has externalized his character flaws.
He needs to understand that the problem isn't with every single other person he has ever met, it is with HIM.
This is a lesson he refuses to learn. He would rather murder the world than admit being wrong even once.
Great analysis. You have to think that someone that makes their mission in life to Troll a message board has some serious issues. The fact that he has driven away important people in his life sheds light on his character.
the "fact"???
ROTFL...that you would believe a single word cliff says sheds more light on the idiocy of you both than anything I could say.
So sayeth the guy who wants to hasten an industrial panic so he can be a petty tyrant? ROTFL
Cliff, you are TOO MUCH.
When was your divorce, btw?
Robo-faker also likes to use "blowtorch."
They were blinded by the shiney Ron was holding. They didn't hear a word Bernanke said after that.
They don't have the shiney protectors built into their eyes like us Europeans and Westerners do. It's kinda of a big chink in their armor.
If I was working for ESPN......I'd be pretty screwed right about now.
"Wednesday’s sell off is being attributed to one massive sell trade of 31 tonnes on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange during Bernanke’s speech. There are rumours of a large US fund selling and also that the selling may have been by JP Morgan – rumoured to be acting on behalf of an Asian fund."
What for-profit fund would authorize a sale of 1 million oz equivalent of gold in a single one trade? None that wants to stay in business. The attack on the price of gold was a crime perpetrated by the Federal Reserve, likely aided and abetted by some its foreign central gangster bankster cronies. It's a worldwide Central Bankster Fiat Money Printing Organized Crime Syndicate. They fear the Price of Gold. Gold is the club with the power to beat them to death. Couldn't happen to a more deserving den of thieves.
Listen to Jim Sinclair's latest on KWN: http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2012/3/1_Ji...
"Gold will be the last man standing." - Jim Sinclair
Just thinking out loud here, but it does seem as if the silver smackdown was what they really wanted to do. I know it in recent history it is more volatile pricewise by nature than gold, but still silver is the commodity that the bankers do seem to fear. It is the canary in the mine on the health of the fiat currencies.
Perhaps..., but I believe they dearly wanted to paint that end of month/week candle red. And to be able to do that while the Bernanke is speaking... priceless.
Very Godfatherish, don't you think?
Gold was the target. The drop in silver was 'collateral damage'. The gold:silver ratio is doping, below 50 now and heading towards 32, and lower. Silver held up re-assuringly well under such an onslaught.
huh? Silver was down more than gold was and is again today.
You silverbugz must enjoy getting blowtorched like that.
All the breathless silverbugz rushed in like idiots once "Turd" said silver to DA MOONZ or $42 or whatever and the next day it simply got smashed. Silverbugz are huge fades, the classic "dumb money"
I'm long gold and silver. When the prices get monkey-hammered down silver normally drops more, in percentage terms, and when prices rise silver normally gains more than gold, in percentage terms. Year to date, gold is up quite well, silver is up all that and more so. After an increase from $26 to $37 a pullback wasn't much of a surprise. Having 2 stacks, one to hold until TSHTF and one to trade - scaling in when prices drop - and to take some profits from when prices rise - seems to work quite well. Just keep scaling in, and scaling out...
Well, I'm no expert, but it seems to me like *they* were letting the POG rise gradually, to entice buyers, then MonkeyHammered the F out of it, to cause many traders to lose a shirt or two, to discourage players from getting into gold.
The carpet bombing of gold market was done to prevent the sheeple from waking up and starting stage 3 of the bull market. This is going to happen several times in the next year or two. Nothing wrong with picking up some extra phys on discount. Thank you brother Ben.
there's no limit to idiotic conspiracy theories from you people, is there?
Have you heard the one about peak oil?
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WOW....
Spam on ZeroHedge....too fucking much...!!
FUCK OFF SHITFACE.
Spam on ZeroHedge....too fucking much...!!
Wait and see what happens on your home computer if you open a direct link to this shite.
Like a Mother in Law comes for a short visit, but won't leave
it would be nice to see how will they cover their short positions when gold at 1,800!
By m-a-n-i-p-u-l-a-t-i-o-n. Like they always have.
Smart money buying it, idiot money selling it.
Eclipse89... I have read lots of speculative comments about the sell off. Here is yet another...
"Did Sheldon Adelson (Newt's Billionaire Friend) Smash Down The Gold Price On The 29th?"
"A single seller drove price down as Bernanke testified"
http://maxkeiser.com/2012/03/02/did-sheldon-adelson-newts-billionaire-friend-smash-down-the-gold-price-on-the-29th/
...and here is the link to GATA where the story originated (I assume), with full text:
http://www.gata.org/node/11051
Let's think about this one
Adelson
1. Rich
2. Jew
Yep, it probably was him. anyway, just go with it
How dare those Goy Slaves say such things..
Dont they know their place in this World?
Tell'em Dave!
Tell'em how it is!
Yup - somone is making good moves.
Deep down inside - they all are buying Gold/Silver up behind closed doors.
A signature Blythe weak-hand takedown.
so JP Morgan was the buyer then? who cares? "wake me up when Singapore ANNOUNCES it has been buying all the Silver it can get its hands on and declares its currency backed by said metal." then Planet Earth will finally have "a bank we can believe in."
L0L!!!
nada on the gold-platinum spread trades!
not one word from anyone!
this spread compresses by ~~$90 in a few daze as the GSR heads south thru 50:1 and nobody notices except slewie?
what a fuking joke!
Hey I've been on that trade for a month now. Lookin' good so far.
Slewie... I have made a virtual fortune on Farmville. Recently virtual oil was discovered under my 1,600 acres of virtual wheat... Then my virtual attorney told me that a virtual oil company owned the oil/mineral rights of my virtual farm... Now I am fighting the virtual oil company in a virtual court battle... I think I need a new virtual attorney.
I have no time to trade Real Stuff. :)
and the difference between Framville and NYSE is?
PT may trade at parity to AU again real soon. There's another 20% "potential" after that. Many notice in silence.
I noticed slewie. $7 away from parity. There is a distinct possibility that platinum will blow past gold it gold keeps standing still. No one seems to care though. It's such a tiny market compared to gold so if there's anymore problems with mine strikes they won't be able to stop the price move and I don't think the PPT cares about platinum that much anyway. They got their hands full with gold and silver. $2500 platinum is not unthinkable.
HUH?
Did you miss like the DOZEN times I told people to put on this trade and said when I DID SO myself a couple months ago?
Even if the Fed isn't printing today, Europe is printing like crazy and the US will have to play catch-up soon - or else (just for starters) all those overseas S&P 500 earnings start to wilt.
but wait....i thought ben was always printing??? ......not
Just because some other group of banksters are printing doesn't mean Ben isn't printing, constantly at all hours of the day. Everybody's always printing. It's a P A R T Y for the central banksters and they spiked the punchbowl with absynthe and LSD. Stocks to the moon! Welfare checks for everyone! And there will be no consequences to any of this. And any time their legitimacy is questioned they threaten to unleash the "deflation", as if it would even be negative for the real economy!
Look at the Market rally from OCT, there will be no QE3 because it already happened.
Gold got smack down $87 dollars as Europe injected 870 billion and Bernanke lobbied for negative rates.... Quantify that.
What is the capital gains tax on 31 tons of gold?
Also delivery needs to be by two 18 wheelers. It's gonna cost ya.
Pretty cute I must say, timing Gold sales or buys to the B-Man speeches.
HungrySeagull...
"Also delivery needs to be by two 18 wheelers. It's gonna cost ya."
......................................
Nah, one email regarding failure to deliver and wire deposit to bank... no REAL gold involved. Cash settlement.
.....assuming the gold sold was not mostly bought by the same party....
And then some with the weak hands and their stop losses.
Picked up a few more ounces on Thursday. Was looking for an excuse to do so anyway.
asians are buying gold, together with central banks.
http://www.jinrongbaike.com/ http://www.cnhedge.com/
Interesting peak into JPM's "activities" as of late....
http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/what-really-happened-this-week-in-gold-and-silver/
"You heard me gold is overvalued and I have now more to say on the matter."...."Hey Barbra call my coin dealer and see if Henry can get me a deal on those Credit Suise bullion coins like he did last time."
That's the thing that irritates me, they say one thing then do another. Buggers are starting to have trouble keeping control of even the paper gold in the gold ETF.
Buying gold would be the smart move for a speculator in anticipation of more QE. So on the news of no QE...cut's both ways right.
I am wondering why there was no QE - does anyone believe the economic data?
I suspect that the US had learned that in the event of more QE, more (Arab) countries who would be shifting to gold over dollars - hence Israel show of support for Ben. So they fabricated data that justified no QE.
Leaving aside the fact that clearly QE has become simply a fix for the pathetic crack whore that is the financial system.
Tough move for Obama going into electrics since the response time to QE must be at least 6 months if at all. But maybe he wants to hold back the funds so he can issue stimulus cash.
Do you really want to insult a fine, long standing profession like prostitution by comparing it to our financial system?
Nah, didn't think so.
You're really wondering why no QE? It actually perfectly logical. The FED didn't introduce more QE at the meeting before last, and the economy has only grown stronger, so.... By my thinking, the economy has taken several steps forward since QE2 and would need to take several steps back for QE3. It might happen, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
"Absolutely nothing has changed regarding the fundamentals of gold which remain as sound as ever"
I hope to heck you know what you're talking about, and that you're right. I have much riding in this.
And of course base metals like lead, copper.... just saying.
"Absolutely nothing has changed regarding the fundamentals of gold which remain as sound as ever."
Gave me a big LOL there. It used to be a risk off trade, now it's a risk on trade. It used to be a buy because Bernanke's going to print, print, print, now it's a buy even when he isn't.
Let's face reality, to some segments of the financial blogoshphere gold is always a buy.
I always get a kick out of those who think gold is a good inflation hedge. What should be the price of gold today if adjusted for inflation? LOL.
You do understand the FED has to print, print, print to maintain ZIRP. Don't you?
That's true, but with the FED telegraphing their intentions into 2014, you'd think that would be priced into the market. With that in mind, surprises will likely be to the down side.
There are theories, with some heavy evidence, that point to massive manipulation of markets, including precious metals.
Not to mention, most of the propaganda directed at financial markets talks about gold like it's only good for scared/stupid/3rd world people. Don't underestimate the power of propaganda, but as they say... you can fool all of the people some of the time, yadda yadda.
The only type of serious downturn to be expected will be short lived and will represent a mass exodus from manipulated paper markets to physical markets where real price discovery still has gold well above $1800/oz. When the flood of money changes directions, the physical holders will be much better off than those that are trying to win the rat race of the paper labyrinth.
What do you mean when you say that real price discovery has gold well about $1800. You got some sort of secret price disovery mechanism?
The way I see it, discounting last year's highs we're still at record nominal levels. In my mind that's not a good price.
I mean price discovery based on supply and demand of real assets, vs price discovery of "oh more people want gold, well sell them some paper..."
Yes but maybe that's got more to do with the market's been turned upside-down by central planning: Bad news means more printing which means risk on.
Gold is a bet against central planning - which must be punished.
Is that right or what?
Let us not forget, for every seller there is a buyer.
If 31 lousy tons of Gold can take it down $100 dollars, what would happen if the thousands of tons of the stuff actually held all over the world, suddenly came to market?
Gold @ -$5,000 ?
Even if gold went to 0, I'd never get rid of mine. But I would feel better about turning it into jewelry!
The same could be said for any comodity or stock, no? I am thinking 31 tons is an unusually large order buy or sell. The "problem" for gold is that it is relatively illiquid so the price will response wildly to moderate changes in supply / demand. This makes it potentially rewarding and/or dangerous in the short term.
nonsense...the gold market is one of the most liquid in existence.
why is it that EVERY downtick calls you morons out to bleat "MANIPULATION!!!!!11"??
I am interested in your point.
How do you conclude that gold is among the most liquid?
Off the top of your head what are some approximate numbers.
Thank you for correcting me on this.
7. In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were liberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom is impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with moderation. It is enough to hand over a people to self-government for a certain length of time for that people to be turned into a disorganized mob. From that moment on we get internecine strife which soon develops into battles between classes, in the midst of which States burn down and their importance is reduced to that of a heap of ashes.
TPTLEZ #1/24
That is why only idiots use JPM as their broker in the PM or commodities market. If you give JPM a large order, do you think are going to piecemeal it out, or do you think they are going front run it, dump it all at once, and ass rape you? People wonder what that 7am dip is all about every day. It is the moron miners/refiners/customers who still use the bullion banks like JPM to sell into the market. JPM saves up all the orders they get, front runs them, and then dump them all at once for effect.
No one sells 31 tonnes of gold at once, they would know that they would get creamed, and in the middle of a large move up, why cut your own throat? So it is clearly Manipulation, but Gensler has his thumb up his ass and his nose up Dimon's... read Jeff Nielson on the massive under the table printing by the toxic tumor 'Spank Hank" Bernank. The world is being flooded with fiat paper and the ragheads still hate the jews. I'll keep my gold.
EVERY downtick is manipulation
Idiot, $100 down is not a "tick".
No one sells 31 tonnes of gold at once,
I know not one ounce changed hands, if this were put up for sale, the Indians, Asians, Chinese would be all over it like ants at a picnic.
Just on the DIP they are sucking it up like vacumn cleaners at $1725.00................................while 99% of America sucks it's thumbs thinking its too Expensive.
Sometimes their sheet really gets old,but ANYONE who throws down that # for sale at once Soverigns will be bidding on it.
Not sure what there is to complain about if this kind of manipulation creates buying dips.
Watching the market there are some events that repeat with the precision of a quartz clock.
Want to buy dips ?
Wait til end of month or end of quarter. The lists with future expiry dates etc are publicly available.
Good way to save a few cents or Dollars or EUR when buying.
I for one have fun now doing timed buying of a 1/4 maple or a Sovereign or whatever. - just for the fun of it.
It's my way of doing savings for the next heating oil bill.
Yup. It's a scam but - who can change it ?
None of us I guess...
Go watch and enjoy the ride if you have used up all your powder the stacked ounces certainly will not evaporate.
The real deep dip on wednesday would have been very hard (impossible?) to buy for any outsider. It was so brief, that it looked very much like a "bespoke" buyer being lined up for that 31 tons. paper transactions, move on, nothing to see here...
Just primary dealers and market makers "making their market".
I wonder how well AAPL would would do under government onslaught?
... all those articles and not one mention of Vector Gold (tm). Curious.
http://tradewithdave.com/?p=9457
"Wednesday’s sell off is being attributed to one massive sell trade of 31 tonnes on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange during Bernanke’s speech"
When the tide goes out, the naked shorts get exposed.
The Rothchilds corned the GOLD bullion market long ago, watch yo arse!!!
India remains the world’s largest buyer of the yellow metal (900 tonnes/year)
China will have a HELL of a time catching up with India, at 18,000 Metric tons in the hands of its peoples, good RUCK.(which is equal to ALL Soverign stores on the planet.............one country holds more than ALL the rest combined.
Was rumoured that it was the JP Mourge for an Asian fund "owned by JP Morgan.
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/3/2_Whistleblower_Maguire_-_US_Entity_Interferes_in_Gold_Market.html
If you haven't read this blog, do so.
It expains the entire reason for the takedown, and what it has spawned in its wake.
WE may just get the last laugh yet.
I would not be so sure about the price of gold rising in perpetuity. The paper maket is not the physical market. The price manipulators will crash the paper market if the price starts to get out of control.
Gold Price Technical Analysis
http://razorsforex.blogspot.com/2011/10/gold-price-to-moon-maybe-not.html