RE:RE:RE:Do not forget- gold will not go up 2 days in a row
"...I must reconcile that with with my persistent obstination on what just seems to be the case...."
There is good reason to be pesimistic. Gold manipulation is real. Where once claims of manipulation were call "conspiracy" they have been proven to be true in court and banks have had to pay fines.
The manipulation appears to be weakening since Basel 3 and the United States weaponization of its reserve currency domination to confiscate other countries reserve currencies and block their international trade by barring them from SWIFT.
As a result, countries are shifting away from the dollar and amassing gold. Countries are pivoting away from the west and forging new aliances lead by Russia and China. Central banks are also amassing gold.
Demand in physical gold is having more influence in price discovery of gold and reducing the influence of manipulation occurring in the over leveraged paper gold in the COMEX and London gold market.