Precious Metals Market Comments

Gold Settled $1.50 Lower ... ($1642.30)

Today's June Gold futures traded a choppy and volatile $20.70 as FOMC comments once again are not what the "bulls" were looking for. The FOMC released a statement at 11; 30 am cst...

The statement was almost exactly the same as they issued in March. (See highlights below)

•  Fed says U.S Economy is expanding moderately...
•  Housing sector remains depressed...
•  Low interest rates through 2014...
•  Inflation has risen slightly due to higher energy prices...
•  Labor market has show improvement in recent months...

The June gold futures was trading around the $1640 level at the time of the FOMC's statement release. And with no mention once again about a QE 3 or the possibility of more stimulus the Gold market tanked and traded as low as $1625.00 5 minutes after the Fed's statement.

Evidently traders and investors saw last month's Jobs data as a sign of a slowing economy.

The Gold market did however make a miraculous comeback the last hour of the day session to close $1.50 lower for the day...

The demand for physical has been sluggish and has not been an underlying support recently.

The market has been trading above and below the $1640.00 level seemingly forever...

Traders have been using the $1640 level as a psychological pivot level....

May Silver settled .39 cents lower... ($30.35.6 per ounce)...

ECONOMIC DATA 4/26

Export Sales..................7:30 am cst.

Initial Jobless Claims.......7:30 am.cst.

MY SWING NUMBERS 4/26

JUNE GOLD

RESISTANCE # 2...............$1659.00

RESISTANCE # 1...............$1651.00

PIVOT..............................$1638.00

SUPPORT # 1....................$1630.00

SUPPORT # 2....................$1617.00

VOLUME...........................108,000

MAY SILVER

RESISTANCE # 2................$31.46

RESISTANCE # 1................$30.91

PIVOT..............................$30.42

SUPPORT # 1....................$29.86

SUPPORT # 2....................$39.46

VOLUME........................ 47,000

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