Stocks And Precious Metals Charts - More Of The Same Thing

Todays was more of the same thing we have been seeing on Fridays for the past months.

In addition to the using shoving around of the markets during the day, we see this at the bell. 

"Trump will remain at the White House this weekend with no public events and every item on his schedule marked closed press. The last fully closed-press weekend was more than 4 months ago, from July 10 to 12. Netanyahu's close confidant and Mossad chief Roman Gofman is in Washington meeting senior Trump administration officials to resume the war with Iran, as Netanyahu presses Trump to launch major combat operations, US officials tell Axios. He is also expected to meet CIA Director John Ratcliffe and travel to Miami to meet envoy Steve Witkoff. Trump said yesterday he would not hesitate to strike Iran again and might do so now."

and

"RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall are on lockdown with sirens sounding, following an imminent threat to US military forces in the UK, per multiple initial reports. Lakenheath is responding to a bomb threat and drone activity, with sirens also sounding at RAF Feltwell."

I would not be surprised if you are skeptical about all this, since I am as well. This is becoming a regular Friday occurrence, with a late Sunday spate of announcement about talks of a deal.

So far the US posture towards an Iran conflict resembles chimps jumping up and down, breaking things with sticks and false flags while making threatening faces, without fully engaging with the other side. Mostly to support their con games.

Not that this is a bad thing necessarily.  But this constant manipulation of world events to game the markets is becoming intolerable.

So let's see what happens.