Gold Continues To Rebound Despite Constant Cartel Whacking: Gold Down $1.40

by Harvey Organ, Harvey Organ Blog:

SILVER IS DOWN 11 CENTS. GOLD WITNESSES ANOTHER BIG 6,000 PLUS GOLD EFP/SILVER HAS 1723 EFP NOTICES/GOOD NUMBER OF SWAMP STORIES TONIGHT

Glad to be back as I was in Israel over the holidays.

I will resume my normal detailed commentary

GOLD: $1319.50 DOWN $1.40

Silver: $17.12 DOWN 11 cents

Closing access prices:

Gold $1320.50

silver: $17.11

SHANGHAI GOLD FIX: FIRST FIX 10 15 PM EST (2:15 SHANGHAI LOCAL TIME)

SECOND FIX: 2:15 AM EST (6:15 SHANGHAI LOCAL TIME)

SHANGHAI FIRST GOLD FIX: $1323.92 DOLLARS PER OZ

NY PRICE OF GOLD AT EXACT SAME TIME: $1320.00

PREMIUM FIRST FIX: $3.92

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SECOND SHANGHAI GOLD FIX: $1323.92

NY GOLD PRICE AT THE EXACT SAME TIME: $1318.25

Premium of Shanghai 2nd fix/NY:$5.67

SHANGHAI REJECTS NY /LONDON PRICING OF GOLD

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LONDON FIRST GOLD FIX: 5:30 am est $1380.80

NY PRICING AT THE EXACT SAME TIME: $1318.75

LONDON SECOND GOLD FIX 10 AM: $1268.85

NY PRICING AT THE EXACT SAME TIME. 1268.50??

For comex gold:

JANUARY/

NUMBER OF NOTICES FILED TODAY FOR JANUARY CONTRACT: 0 NOTICE(S) FOR nil OZ.

TOTAL NOTICES SO FAR: 242 FOR 24200 OZ (0.7527 TONNES),

For silver:

jANUARY

0 NOTICE(S) FILED TODAY FORnil OZ/

Total number of notices filed so far this month: 507 for 2,535,000 oz

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Bitcoin: BID $15,392/OFFER $15,512 DOWN $1155 (morning) Bitcoin: BID   14,763/OFFER  $14,871 DOWN  $1800(CLOSING) 

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Let us have a look at the data for today

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In silver, the total open interest  ROSE BY TINY  165 contracts from 194,264 RISING TO 194,429 WITH FRIDAY’S TINY 4 CENT RISE IN SILVER PRICING.  WE HAD ZERO COMEX LIQUIDATION BUT WITHOUT A DOUBT WE WITNESSED ANOTHER MAJOR BANK SHORT- COVERING OPERATION. NOT ONLY THAT , WE WERE AGAIN NOTIFIED THAT WE HAD ANOTHER HUGE SIZED NUMBER OF COMEX LONGS TRANSFERRING THEIR CONTRACTS TO LONDON THROUGH THE EFP ROUTE: A CONSIDERABLE 1721 EFP’S FOR MARCH (AND ZERO FOR OTHER MONTHS) AND THUS TOTAL ISSUANCE OF 1721 CONTRACTS. HOWEVER THE MOVEMENT ACROSS TO LONDON IS NOT AS SEVERE AS IN GOLD AS THERE SEEMS TO BE A MAJOR PLAYER TAKING ON THE BANKS AT THE COMEX. STILL, WITH THE TRANSFER OF 1721 CONTRACTS, WHAT THE CME IS STATING IS THAT THERE IS NO SILVER (OR GOLD) TO BE DELIVERED UPON AT THE COMEX AS THEY MUST EXPORT THEIR OBLIGATION TO LONDON. YESTERDAY WITNESSED  EFP’S FOR SILVER ISSUED. ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE CAN BE A DELAY OF 24 HRS IN THE ISSUING OF EFP’S. I BELIEVE THAT WE MUST HAVE HAD SOME MAJOR BANKER SHORT COVERING AGAIN TODAY.

ACCUMULATION FOR EFP’S/SILVER/ STARTING FROM FIRST DAY NOTICE/FOR MONTH OF JANUARY:

17,931 CONTRACTS (FOR 6 TRADING DAYS TOTAL 17,931 CONTRACTS OR 89.66 MILLION OZ: AVERAGE PER DAY: 2988 CONTRACTS OR 14.94 MILLION OZ/DAY)

RESULT: A SMALL SIZED GAIN IN OI COMEX DESPITE THE TINY 4 CENT RISE IN SILVER PRICE WHICH USUALLY INDICATES HUGE BANKER SHORT-COVERING. WE ALSO HAD A FAIR SIZED  EFP ISSUANCE OF 1721 CONTRACTS WHICH EXITED OUT OF THE SILVER COMEX AND TRANSFERRED THEIR OI TO LONDON AS FORWARDS.  FROM THE CME DATA 1721 EFP’S WERE ISSUED FOR TODAY (FOR MARCH EFP’S AND NONE FOR ALL OTHER MONTHS) FOR A DELIVERABLE FORWARD CONTRACT OVER IN LONDON WITH A FIAT BONUS. WE REALLY GAINED 1886 OI CONTRACTS i.e. 1721 open interest contracts headed for London (EFP’s) TOGETHER WITH A INCREASE OF 165 OI COMEX CONTRACTS. AND ALL OF THIS HAPPENED WITH THE TINY RISE IN PRICE OF SILVER BY 4 CENTS AND A CLOSING PRICE OF $17.23 WITH RESPECT TO FRIDAY’S TRADING. YET WE STILL HAVE A GOOD AMOUNT OF SILVER STANDING AT THE COMEX.

In ounces AT THE COMEX, the OI is still represented by just UNDER 1 BILLION oz i.e. 0.9720 BILLION TO BE EXACT or 139% of annual global silver production (ex Russia & ex China).

FOR THE NEW FRONT JANUARY MONTH/ THEY FILED: 0 NOTICE(S) FOR NIL OZ OF SILVER

In gold, the open interest ROSE BY AN HUGE SIZED 9,128 CONTRACTS UP TO 551,441 WITH THE SMALL RISE IN PRICE OF GOLD WITH FRIDAY’S TRADING ($1.40). IN ANOTHER HUGE DEVELOPMENT, WE RECEIVED THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GOLD EFP’S ISSUED YESTERDAY FOR TODAY AND IT TOTALED A GOOD SIZED  6115 CONTRACTS OF WHICH THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY SAW 6115 CONTRACTS AND APRIL SAW THE ISSUANCE OF 0 CONTRACTS.  The new OI for the gold complex rests at 551,441.DEMAND FOR GOLD INTENSIFIES GREATLY AS WE CONTINUE TO WITNESS A HUGE NUMBER OF EFP TRANSFERS TOGETHER WITH THE MASSIVE INCREASE IN GOLD COMEX OI  TOGETHER WITH  THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF GOLD OUNCES STANDING FOR JANUARY. EVEN THOUGH THE BANKERS ISSUED THESE MONSTROUS EFPS, THE OBLIGATION STILL RESTS WITH THE BANKERS TO SUPPLY METAL BUT IT TRANSFERS THE RISK TO A LONDON BANKER OBLIGATION AND NOT A NEW YORK COMEX OBLIGATION. LONGS RECEIVE A FIAT BONUS TOGETHER WITH A LONG LONDON FORWARD. THUS, BY THESE ACTIONS, THE BANKERS AT THE COMEX HAVE JUST STATED THAT THEY HAVE NO APPRECIABLE METAL!! THIS IS A MASSIVE FRAUD: THEY CANNOT SUPPLY ANY METAL TO OUR COMEX LONGS BUT THEY ARE QUITE WILLING TO SUPPLY MASSIVE NON BACKED GOLD (AND SILVER) PAPER KNOWING THAT THEY HAVE NO METAL TO SATISFY OUR LONGS. LONDON IS NOW SEVERELY BACKWARD IN BOTH GOLD AND SILVER (BIG RISE IN BOTH GOFO AND SIFO) AND WE ARE WITNESSING DELAYS IN ACTUAL DELIVERIES. IN ESSENCE WE HAVE ANOTHER HUMONGOUS GAIN OF 15,243 OI CONTRACTS: 9.128 OI CONTRACTS INCREASED AT THE COMEX AND A GOOD SIZED 6115 OI CONTRACTS WHICH NAVIGATED OVER TO LONDON.

FRIDAY, WE HAD 17,213 EFP’S ISSUED.

ACCUMULATION OF EFP’S/ GOLD(EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL) FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY STARTING WITH FIRST DAY NOTICE: 57,605 CONTRACTS OR 5.760 MILLION OZ OR 179.16 TONNES (6 TRADING DAYS AND THUS AVERAGING: 9,600.8 EFP CONTRACTS PER TRADING DAY OR 960,000 OZ/DAY)

Result: A STRONG SIZED INCREASE IN OI WITH THE SMALL SIZED RISE IN PRICE IN GOLD TRADING ON YESTERDAY ($1.40). WE HAD ANOTHER FAIR SIZED NUMBER OF COMEX LONG TRANSFERRING TO LONDON THROUGH THE EFP ROUTE: 6115. THERE OBVIOUSLY DOES NOT SEEM TO BE MUCH PHYSICAL GOLD AT THE COMEX AND YET WE ALSO OBSERVED A HUGE DELIVERY MONTH FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. I GUESS IT EXPLAINS THE HUGE ISSUANCE OF EFP’S…THERE IS HARDLY ANY GOLD PRESENT AT THE GOLD COMEX FOR DELIVERY PURPOSES. IF YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE 6115 EFP CONTRACTS ISSUED, WE HAD A NET GAIN IN OPEN INTEREST OF 15,243 contracts:

6115 CONTRACTS MOVE TO LONDON AND  9128 CONTRACTS INCREASED AT THE COMEX. (in tonnes, the gain in total oi equates to 47.40 TONNES)

we had: 0 notice(s) filed upon for NIL oz of gold.

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With respect to our two criminal funds, the GLD and the SLV:

GLD: with gold up for 11 consecutive days, we still have no changes in gold inventory

Today, with gold down a tiny $1.40 after rising for 12 straight days, gold inventory declines by a huge 1.44 tonnes today/

Inventory rests tonight: 834.86 tonnes.

SLV/ 

NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/

INVENTORY RESTS AT 318.423 MILLION OZ/

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First, here is an outline of what will be discussed tonight:

1. Today, we had the open interest in silver ROSE BY A SMALL 165 contracts from 194,264 UP TO 194,429 (AND now A LITTLE FURTHER FROM THE NEW COMEX RECORD SET ON FRIDAY/APRIL 21/2017 AT 234,787) DESPITE THE TINY RISE IN PRICE OF SILVER TO THE TUNE OF 4 CENTS  ON FRIDAY.  WE HAD WITHOUT A DOUBT ANOTHER MAJOR SHORT COVERING FROM OUR BANKERS AS THEY HAVE CAPITULATED. NOT ONLY THAT BUT OUR BANKERS USED THEIR EMERGENCY PROCEDURE TO ISSUE ANOTHER 1721 PRIVATE EFP’S FOR MARCH (WE DO NOT GET A LOOK AT THESE CONTRACTS AS IT IS PRIVATE BUT THE CFTC DOES AUDIT THEM).  EFP’S GIVE OUR COMEX LONGS A FIAT BONUS PLUS A DELIVERABLE PRODUCT OVER IN LONDON. WE HAD NO COMEX SILVER COMEX LIQUIDATION. BUT, IF WE TAKE THE SMALL OI GAIN AT THE COMEX OF 165 CONTRACTS TO THE 1721 OI TRANSFERRED TO LONDON THROUGH EFP’S WE OBTAIN A GAIN OF 1886 OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS DESPITE THE MAJOR BANKER SHORT COVERING. WE STILL HAVE A GOOD AMOUNT OF SILVER OUNCES THAT ARE STANDING FOR METAL IN JANUARY (SEE BELOW). THE NET GAIN TODAY IN OZ: 9.43 MILLION OZ!!!

RESULT: A SMALL SIZED INCREASE IN SILVER OI AT THE COMEX WITH THE TINY SIZED RISE OF 4 CENTS IN PRICE (WITH RESPECT TO YESTERDAY’S TRADING). BUT WE ALSO HAD ANOTHER 1721 EFP’S ISSUED TRANSFERRING COMEX LONGS OVER TO LONDON. TOGETHER WITH THE GOOD  SIZED AMOUNT OF SILVER OUNCES STANDING FOR JANUARY, DEMAND FOR PHYSICAL SILVER INTENSIFIES AS WE WITNESS MAJOR BANK SHORT COVERING ACCOMPANIED BY INCREASES IN GOFO AND SIFO RATES INDICATING SCARCITY.

(report Harvey)

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2.a) The Shanghai and London gold fix report

(Harvey)

2 b) Gold/silver trading overnight Europe, Goldcore

(Mark O’Byrne/zerohedge

and in NY: Bloomberg

3. ASIAN AFFAIRS

i)Late SUNDAY night/MONDAY morning: Shanghai closed UP 17.73 points or 0.53% /Hang Sang CLOSED UP 84.89 pts or 0.28% / The Nikkei closed UP 208.20 POINTS OR 0.89%/Australia’s all ordinaires CLOSED UP 0.11%/Chinese yuan (ONSHORE) closed UP at 6.4974/Oil UP to 61.90 dollars per barrel for WTI and 67.85 for Brent. Stocks in Europe OPENED MOSTLY GREEN.   ONSHORE YUAN CLOSED UP AGAINST THE DOLLAR AT 6.4974. OFFSHORE YUAN CLOSED UP AGAINST  THE ONSHORE YUAN AT 6.4943 //ONSHORE YUAN  STRONGER AGAINST THE DOLLAR/OFF SHORE STRONGER TO THE DOLLAR/. THE DOLLAR (INDEX) IS  STRONGER AGAINST ALL MAJOR CURRENCIES. CHINA IS  HAPPY TODAY.(GOOD MARKETS)

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