Its a matter of selling a relatively small quantity of physical gold from a large pool of bullion in order to acquire a much larger quantity of physical, but you have to wait for delivery.

Physical gold traded on the LBMA is in the order of one year's mine supply every four days, and generates ~$60B/day in liquidity.

A large concession of 12 million ounces such as the IMF gold will probably expand the cartel pool and expand the liquidity of the gold market by one and a half times, bringing the the size of the gold cartel to over a week's worth of trade on the gold markets.

Hoarding of the gold by central banks have reduced the liquidity of this market, and thus affects the lease rates on which a massive derivatives pyramid relies. So the essential here is to re-bubble the economy and the commercial banking sector with fresh supply that was previously unavailable. Never mind this gold is actually owned by somebody, or probably was leased 10X over.

The IMF is engaged in exactly the same kind of desperate short term move for political expediency as central banks have in the past.

Weekly Analogous Chart (requires membership to stockcharts.com)

With the weekly analogous chart, you merely count off the number of weeks in 2007 to arrive at an approximation of what kind of rally we should expect.

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