People should try to get their heads out of their ass(et) classes and look at the signals that these assets may be sending.  Look, gold bugs are screwed and being run up the analytical flagpole as outdated anachronisms and stuffy old fogies with outmoded views. The stock market has proven bullish again and again and policy making has worked swimmingly for a couple years now.

So take out the gold bug, the silver bug, the commodity and inflation bug and the stock market bull and/or bear and just look at the signals.  The Gold-Silver ratio (GSR) is rising strongly and it is happening in unison with the now well bull horned US dollar, which everyone left for dead just a few months ago *. The question that should be asked now is not ‘how do I defend my stance?’ or ‘what asset should I buy or sell?’ but rather, ‘what does this mean from a macro market view?’

The correlation by daily view of the GLD/SLV and UUP ETFs is not very good, but over a longer-term is GSR and USD are generally in line.  We have always felt that the USD (a global asset anti-market or counter party) is a bedfellow of the gold-silver ratio (a risk off/illiquidity indicator).

More to come on this in the form an NFTRH excerpt later on.  But we should be beyond hoping that this or that asset class will go up and into a time of evaluating what, if any meanings can be taken from the USD-GSR relationship. A lot of people are interpreting the rise of the USD as a bullish event, with only gold and commodities to suffer. They had better do the work to confirm that view rather than just making assumptions.

* Not by me and not by my market management service.  We charted its hold of important support and casually followed its progress every single week.  Now Uncle Buck is all lit up in neon and as usual, a majority is now aboard the story and promoting distortions.