Silver continues to trade DIFFERENTLY, in a positive manner that it has not done in YEARS. The potential for the silver price to explode in the very near future is all there. The shares continue to maintain their own positive tone and refuse to give up much ground on corrections. – Bill Murphy from GATA’s Midas report
Nearly the entire precious metals investing community looks at the Comex options expiration and the Fed’s FOMC meetings with trepidation, as historically those two events have triggered a massive Comex paper attack on the price of the metals. Having both events back to back in the same week elicits even more fear. Of course, Goldman Sachs commodities clown, Jeffrey Currie, was on CNBC again today calling for $1000 gold. This guy has absolutely no shame about continuously making an idiot of himself with his price predictions for gold.
I exchanged emails with Bill Murphy on Tuesday morning because the precious metals, especially silver, were unexpectedly buoyant in the morning. I wrote last week that the Comex bullion banks, based on the put/call open interest for May silver, were incentivized to make sure silver closed below $17 today for options expiry.
I emailed Bill asserting that “they” can’t keep the metals down. Gold spiked at 9:00 EST 
on no news or event that would have triggered a spike The 5-minute graph indicates that it started to move up and then short-covering kicked in. Silver started to move and then there’s a red bar and then silver pops. That tells me that they tried to hit silver to keep it from popping but short-covering still kicked in. (click on image to enlarge)
The 60 minute bar chart of silver shows silver oscillating between $16.80 and $17.30 since 
last Tues, with a move up that was slammed with a paper hit on Thursday. But silver refuses to go lower at the direction of the Fed/bullion banks. At this point silver could break either way. They are very desperate to keep it from breaking up, but they seem incapable, at least for now, of forcing it lower. (click on image to enlarge)
The charts smell of serious desperation. Most gold commentators are pointing at the COT structure and sweating bullets. That side of the ship is too crowded in my opinion. We may well get another surprise move higher tomorrow after the FOMC’s Cirque du Merde show is over. Gold and silver are definitely behaving differently than we’ve seen over the last 5 years. The criminal bullion banks seem to be having trouble pushing them lower.
Last week I was invited on a Denver-based radio show, Wake Up With Steve Curtis. We discussed a lot of the factors that are underpinning this surprising strength in the precious metals. You can listen to the podcast here:
I will be publishing the latest issue of the Mining Stock Journal on Thursday. I’ll be featuring a relatively undiscovered junior mining company that has 5+ million proved ounces of gold and silver in the ground. You can access this report here: Mining Stock Journal. I am sending the back-issues to new subscribers but this won’t last much longer.
“Looking forward to the next mining recommendation. I sold my TAHO Sep 12.50 for a nice profit and need a place to put some of it.” – Subscriber “Ed”
Dave: of course this GSax person, Jeff Currie, calls for $1000 gold over and over again. He is part of a PSYOPS plan to ‘disinherit’ those dumb enough to watch mainstream TV by spreading disinformation about gold and silver prices. There is no point even mentioning him! He is not talking to anyone who reads IRD! He is an irrelevance who is going to fade into the shadows very soon! He is not going to bother saying what he says when gold is $2000+ and silver – difficult to say – $75-100 in a matter of days. He will be absent from the TV studios. I have a feeling this weekend will be v. important as it is the Eastern Orthodox (i.e. Russian and Greek Churches) Easter and it coincides (clashes head on with a big ‘dark’ festival). The question to be asked is: who will prevail?
“Jeffery Currie, was on CNBC today calling for $1000 gold”.
Well Dave if you worked for Goldman Sachs and your office was on
a high floor with a window that opened……
The CFTC apparently can’t see precious metals manipulation when it happens right under their noses. What are we paying these public servants for?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-26/us-commodity-regulator-was-unaware-about-deutsche-banks-gold-rigging-until-ten-days-
We are paying them to look the other way.
The bastards tried their best this AM but so far they can’t keep AU
or AG down. This could be the sign that their manipulation is losing
effectiveness.
Can the FED raise rates now – before the election? … a June rate raise and a subsequent stock market crash could hand the fall election to the Republicans …
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/27/news/economy/federal-reserve-election-2016/index.html
There is no doubt in my mind that the silver price (I am no longer going to mention gold) is being ‘held steady’ by unknown strong hands. I have long believed, in line with what others have predicted, that there will be a ‘upward revision’ of the silver price and I believe thus will occur in the next few days.
Sunday evening (Europe time)/Monday morning (Eastern Asia time) on 1/2 May 2016 seems a likely date as this is the Eastern Orthodox’s Easter Sunday (or shortly thereafter), a time of renewal and forgiveness (for those who are capable of it) and also, most importantly, a time of ‘cancellation’ of old contracts (testaments) and a concomitant agreement to new contracts (testaments).
The ‘upward revision’ of the silver price will be dramatic and awe-inspiring and will leave many surprised and bewildered, with anyone who is short being bankrupted, but it will happen! Closely linked to this event will be the temporary closure of COMEX, followed by a re-opening as a cash-only settlement of spot contracts offered for delivery, shutting down/cancellation of all futures and options contracts leading to huge amounts of wild indignation and anger as a result which will be followed by massive class-action lawsuits which will include, jointly and severally, CFTC as a defendant and, possibly, even past Commissioners and past Chairmen. This will happen over a space of a week or so. Then COMEX will close down forever.
Sounds like someone’s pipe dream.