Can one of you metalheads explain why gold hasn't shot through 2000 today?

Discussion in 'Commodity Futures' started by kmiklas, Mar 9, 2020.

  1. MrMuppet

    MrMuppet

    Well, why do you think gold has not cracked 2k?

    My personal take and the only viable reason: People do not buy gold, period.

    Stop trying to explain things, try to understand what the people who are involved might do next.
    When everything goes to shit, why would I rush into an asset that has no yield, is expensive to store and has no real value aside from being heavy and shiny?
    I would try to squeeze out the last bit of risk free return possible - > hello treasuries
     
    #21     Mar 9, 2020
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  2. padutrader

    padutrader

    why
    gold follows stocks with a time lag

    so if stocks go up, gold does too.

    if stocks turn down ,gold does too but after a lag......so it continues up a bit and then turns down.
     
    #22     Mar 9, 2020
  3. tsfx

    tsfx

    Market isn’t the same as it’s been a decade ago. Supply has become waay smarter, faster and more efficient to take the other side of your position. He has no need to get out of the position while u do. Which way do u think the price will go then? Everybody knows that you want to buy gold in todays environment.
     
    #23     Mar 9, 2020
  4. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    Just a guess; oil is down, Russia is selling the gold they have been accumulating last few years...
     
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    #24     Mar 9, 2020
  5. schizo

    schizo

    Man, you need to be instituitionalized. :D
     
    #25     Mar 9, 2020
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  6. schizo

    schizo

  7. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    Not really, Padu has a fantasy and hoping reality will catch up. When you all long, it most often does, but when it doesn't........
     
    #27     Mar 9, 2020
  8. themickey

    themickey

    Historically as Scat mentions, gold has a tendency to fall once a large bearish market gets underway.
    Gold has a tendency imo to rise due to seasonality of Asian gift buying but also of late Central Banks buying.
    I would assume under a bearish market condition gold which was previously hoarded would begin to enter the market selling.
     
    #28     Mar 9, 2020
  9. wartrace

    wartrace

    On a day when equities are down 7%+ it is pretty respectable that gold maintained value. I hold gold as insurance.
     
    #29     Mar 9, 2020
  10. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    Took a look at SPX /Spot Gold ratio and see that it topped out in Sept '18 and has been trending lower till recently it just cratered of course:
    SPXGold.png
     
    #30     Mar 9, 2020