{"id":7076,"date":"2020-11-25T16:05:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2021-04-25T22:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T02:01:05","slug":"mid-week-weekly-review-of-gold-silver-and-palladium-november-25-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/mid-week-weekly-review-of-gold-silver-and-palladium-november-25-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Week, Weekly Review of Gold, Silver and Palladium November 25 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mid-Week, Weekly Review of Gold, Silver, and Palladium<\/h5>\n
November 25, 2020<\/h5>\n
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Both gold and silver are being pressured downward with gold breaking below support at $1850 and silver testing support around $23. \u00a0Some of the pressures are: the Presidential election is over and a winner chosen; the House and Senate both moving more center; multiple COVID vaccines announced (all resulting in more risk on); and a move away from negative rates seen in the CBOT 30-day Fund Term Structure (Figure 1) comparing the July, August and November futures.\u00a0\u00a0It should be noted however, these curves are far from \u2018normal\u2019 compared to pre-2019.<\/p>\n

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The front month contract for gold and silver were down 4.23% and 5.45% respectively at the close of trading yesterday, with respect to the close on November 17th<\/sup>, 2020.\u00a0The ratio of the month 1 Gold contract to the month 1 Silver contract is up 1.3% compared to the close on the 17th<\/sup> and essentially moving sideways since the end of September. \u00a0\u00a0With the front month gold and silver contracts closing yesterday at $1804.80 and $23.29, respectively, the gold\/silver ratio is now 77.5, 17.3% higher than the corresponding 15-year average.\u00a0February gold (Figure 2) closed yesterday at $1810.90, down 4.25% and March silver (Figure 3) closed at $23.41, down 5.48% from the close on November 17th<\/sup>. \u00a0It should be noted that much of the December gold contracts have rolled into February, so we have moved to the February gold contract.<\/p>\n

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From an open interest perspective, gold\u2019s total open interest is unchanged from last week and while holding near levels seen since August, it has increased slightly over the last two weeks as gold has moved lower.\u00a0This might imply additional shorts are slowly entering the market.\u00a0The latest CFTC report for gold (11\/17) for non-commercial net position of funds show net positions rose this last week driven by an uptick in long positions.\u00a0\u00a0Volume on Tuesday was nearly 2x the 50-day SMA.<\/p>\n

Now on to silver\u2026 Silver total open interest rose 1.0% since last week on November 17th<\/sup>.\u00a0As with gold, silver volume was up yesterday, nearly 1.5x the 50-day SMA.\u00a0The latest CFTC data (from November 17) show non-commercials net long positions fell slightly for the first time since mid-October as non-commercial funds are increasing their short positions slightly more than their long positions.\u00a0All this is occurring while total open interest has been rising since the first part of November.<\/p>\n

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Now for Palladium.\u00a0March palladium closed at $2371.8 yesterday, up 1.38% from the close last week Tuesday.\u00a0Total open interest fell 4.9% from Tuesday and with this move it is down 6.6% from two weeks ago. \u00a0Palladium volume also continues to remain above its 50-day SMA.\u00a0The November 17th<\/sup> CFTC report showed a 15% decrease in non-commercial net fund positions, but the non-commercial net positions remain on an upward path.\u00a0\u00a0Palladium price continues to remain resilient compared to how silver and gold prices are faring.\u00a0It should be noted rhodium prices continue to rise aggressively which eventually would be expected to impact the price of palladium, as seen in Figure 5.<\/p>\n

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The final thoughts I leave with you today are around the price of gold with respect to inflation, deflation and comparing the impact of QE, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and now in 2020, fiscal stimulus due to COVID.\u00a0Lyn Alden has written an article found here<\/a><\/span> that does a good job outlining and providing examples of how the various programs mentioned above have affected banks and the money supply.\u00a0\u00a0She basically concludes that QE and TARP were not inflationary on their own as the recapitalized banks but did not increase the money supply.\u00a0She then goes onto say that the fiscal stimulus program this year did not recapitalize banks but worked in a way that it did increase the money supply.\u00a0\u00a0Will it be inflationary or deflationary? Depends upon what is done with the additional funds added to the economy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mid-Week, Weekly Review of Gold, Silver, and Palladium November 25, 2020 Both gold and silver are being pressured downward with gold breaking below support at $1850 and silver testing support around $23. \u00a0Some of the pressures are: the Presidential election is over and a winner chosen; the House and Senate both moving more center; multiple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7083,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/7083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundamentalanalytics.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}