We start the second quarter of 2017 on a quiet note.
The price of gold slightly lower in negative territory this morning as we witness a slightly stronger dollar and higher bond yields.
Wall Street gold traders are starting to sound like the frustrated physical gold dealers I speak with daily, complaining about the lack of price movement in gold.
Financial advisors see little interest of late in the gold ETFs from retail investors. The Gold ETF overnight saw 155,000 ounces put into the funds by what it looks like are predominantly institutional inflows. If you look at the inflows and outflows in gold in the ETFs over the past few weeks in a bar graph, for the most part one can draw a pretty straight line across the top indicating the movement is just small volumes changing hands.
It’s no surprise that the love affair continues in the equity market, taking all the daily headlines
away from other markets.
CME future volumes on the low side this morning, indicating not too much interest from the Far East and Europe overnight. Even my trading friends in the Far East are tired of sitting on their hands and, just like their Wall Street counterparts, are dying for some action.
Even the guys who do a great job predicting the future price movement in gold using just charts have commented to me that their charts are starting to flat line, so to speak.
I must admit I feel the traders pain, because as I write these articles I too struggle to come up with interesting stories to share when the markets lack price movements.
So I will leave you with this thought.
My mother always said, “Count your blessings. If you wake up each morning and you are not in a hospital
bed it’s a good day.”
So as bad as it sounds, things could be worse.
Hang in there and have a wonderful Monday.
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