Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - map of the markets

Stocks tried to rally and failed, but managed to take back a chunk of the day's losses in the quiet of the last trading hours.

Gold and silver declined on a Non-Farm Payrolls Report.

What a surprise.

It seems that the metals may be under some pressure until the mechanics of the physical market demand break the current paper trading stranglehold.

The Dollar rose, taking a firmer grip on the 98 handle.

I tend not to play 'systems' with counts and rules. I always felt that they tended to create a bias towards what the market *should* do at a given time.

Flexibility and knowledge not only of the markets, but the cross-markets and components of markets is fairly key to surviving longer term as a trader. Perhaps even an investor.

I was thinking of all the other sites that I had posted on over the years, and read, and wondered today that so many of them have gone dark behind a paywall, or just gone.

These are just the charts, a 'map of the markets' if you will, to help me figure out where we have been and where we are now.

Anticipating the future market movements is a very non-linear, probabilistic art.

I wonder if, at the end of the day, there will be any asset, any place that is safe from this unbridled greed.

Have a pleasant weekend.

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