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Precious Metals Review & Outlook
04/10/2017 thru 04/21/2017

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Originally Posted on 04/17/2017 @12:14am

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Hello,

Thank you for visiting the Free-Bullion-Investment-Guide's latest blog post, I hope that you and your family had a Happy Easter.

Before we get to this week's post; here are a few of Last Week's Best News Articles that were taken from this guide's homepage.

Market Watch - CME Group is Going to Launch a Gold-Trading Platform Inspired by Bitcoin


Mining Journal - Gold to Fly on Inflation


Advancing Time - Show Me The Money! I Want Proof Not More Promises


St. Louis Post Dispatch - An economy badly out of balance: Consumer debt growth can't outpace wages forever


FAKE BULLION ALERT : Bend Bulletin (Oregon) - Bend Teen Masterminded Alleged Fake Gold Scam


The Deviant Investor - Titanic Parallel to the Federal Reserve


VIDEO : Mises Institute Media - Interview with Danielle DiMartino Booth: Inside the Fed


CoinWorld - Grading services certifying American Eagle silver bullion coins from multiple Mints

Best of the Week for Gold NanoParticle Cancer Research

GOLD NANOTECHNOLOGY : CANCER RESEARCH : Medical News Today - Nanoparticle Nasal Spray May Offer Rapid and Safe Delivery of Drugs to the Brain - gold nanoparticles have emerged as the material of choice for drug delivery. They are relatively easy to synthesize and customize, and they have good biocompatibility.


GOLD NANOTECHNOLOGY : CANCER RESEARCH : Science Daily - Nanoparticle Research Tested in Locusts Focuses on New Drug-Delivery Method

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In last week’s post (seen here), I briefly wrote about the fact that ‘Fundamentals trump Technical Analysis,’ but when I wrote it the last thing I thought was that it would be the title of this week’s post.

When I wrote the phrase, I was writing about Janet Yellen’s speech and how it could affect the precious metals markets, but the speech didn’t move them at all, instead, it was the drums of war that caused the precious metals markets to move higher.

Fox Business - Gold Touches Five-Month High on Syria Strikes, Before Settling Out

Gold Made Simple - Tensions over North Korea push gold price up

In addition to the military moves last week, President Trump also helped precious metals climb after he made the comments about the US dollar being ‘too strong’ and that he prefers low-interest rates.

The Daily Mail - Trump sends dollar plunging as he says he wants interest rates kept low - and won't be calling China 'currency manipulator'

The Globe and Mail - Traders welcome U.S. dollar slump under Trump comments

In my chart analysis last week, I showed that both gold and silver are now trading inside a bearish pattern called a 'Rising Expanding Wedge'.

Note: Click the chart (to the right) of a 'Rising Expanding Wedge' for Forex-Central's definition of the technical pattern.

However, last week the precious metals didn't move in the way that these patterns indicate.

Instead, the precious metals rose in price by investors who were motivated by a few of the fundamental truths behind investing in precious metals:

• Safe Haven Investment during troubled times or times of heightened military activity
  
• A good investment against a weak dollar

These fundamental truths will continue to move more investors into the precious metals as long as they persist, but once the tension breaks, the bear patterns in the charts will take a more prominent role in price movement.

This weekend, I have studied the gold and silver charts thoroughly and can only find one negative (bear) pattern after another. 

See the silver and gold cluster charts below.

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After I created the two cluster charts above of the repeated 'Rising Expanding Wedges' in both silver and gold, I found another negative pattern in their charts, which are shown in the charts below.

Bull Market

Before we move on to the individual precious metals charts, I do want to say that the precious metals confirmed last year that they are in a new bull market; this was shown in the 'Gold and Silver 2016 – Bull Market Wins' blog post.

Therefore, even though a pullback in price is expected sometime in the near future after they do so, gold and silver should continue to move higher.

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SILVER

In last week’s silver chart, (below) it showed that a pullback was expected not only because of the ‘Rising Expanding Wedge’ but also because it looked like the MACD and RSI (lower indicators) were going to continue to fall.

That didn’t happen, instead, Fundamentals trumped Technical Analysis and the price of silver climbed in response to last week's current events.

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Above, I wrote that when I was studying the charts, I found another bear pattern in silver and gold's chart, it is a 'Rising Wedge.'

I tried not to make the chart below look too confusing, but the ‘Rising Expanding Wedge’ is indicated by the solid lines and the ‘Rising Wedge’ is indicated by dotted lines.

Both patterns are negative (bear) indicators that will continue to loom over the price of silver until either the fundamentals push the price higher, destroying the negative technical patterns or the price pulls back confirming them.

Note: Click the chart (to the right) of a 'Rising Wedge' for Forex-Central's definition of the technical pattern.

charts provided courtesy of TradingView.com

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Silver's Price Resistance &
Support Levels

Silver's Resistance Levels

$19.05

$18.75

Silver's Support Levels

$18.30

$18.00

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GOLD

This week's gold chart (below) is filled with trend-lines.

Last week, gold’s price rose with the news of war and the President saying he preferred a weak dollar.

As the price of gold rose, it hit its Long Term Falling Trend-line, to see how "long-term" this trend-line is, take a look at the chart below this week’s chart.

When (not if) that trend-line is broken, you will hear about it in several financial news outlets because it will be a major bull signal to traders.

This week, if militarily tensions continue to rise, we may see gold break above this level, but if we don’t then the technical patterns in gold’s chart may take over and we may see the price of gold pullback this week. Time will tell.

Charts provided courtesy of TradingView.com

Gold's Long-Term Falling Trend-line Chart

Gold's Price Resistance and
Support Levels

Gold's Resistance Levels

$1305.00

$1300.00

$1290.00

Gold's Support Levels

$1270.00

$1250.00

$1225.00

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US DOLLAR

Last week, the US Dollar didn’t break its previous high and it isn't giving much of any indication on its future direction.

Therefore, for the foreseeable future, it looks like it will continue to trade inside its negative (bear) patterns of the 'Rising Expanding Wedge' and 'Descending Channel.'

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U.S. Dollar's Price Resistance and Support Levels

U.S. Dollar's Resistance Levels

$101.75

$101.40

$101.00

U.S. Dollar's Support Levels

$100.00

$99.85

$99.60

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Platinum

Last week, the price of platinum tested and slightly broke the bottom of the Ascending Channel.

But, I decided to adjust the bottom of the channel; I did this because the adjustment did not compromise the integrity of the ascending channel, if it had I would have removed it.

This week, platinum’s chart isn’t offering much of an indication as to which direction it will move, but it continues to look like it will trade inside the ascending channel.

Platinum's Price Resistance and Support Levels

Platinum's Resistance Levels

$1000.00

$980.00

Platinum's Support Levels

$960.00

$935.00

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Palladium

In last week’s post, I posted the chart below that indicated a 'Rising Wedge' (bear pattern) had formed in palladium’s price chart.

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price charts provided courtesy of TradingView.com

This week, the chart below shows that the price fell below the rising wedge; in addition, Palladium’s MACD and RSI (lower indicators) are showing that the price may have a little more room to fall before it finds support.

Palladium's Price Resistance and Support Levels

Palladium's Resistance Levels

$835.00

$820.00

Palladium's Support Levels

$785.00

$770.00

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Music

If you have been a long time visitor of this blog, you know that sometimes I post music because (when I can) I like to listen to music when I work. 

Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Moses, here's one of my favorites.

Bob Moses - Keeping Me Alive

Have a Great Week.

Thank you for your time & God Bless,

Steve

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