Fabulous, informative posts here today. But back to the mundane.

No one has said anything about the usual takedown we see .... starting today for this month. At first glance, and I may be wrong, it appears that the CFTC decisions won't have bite for at least 60 days.

No matter how much increasing physical gold/silver offtake there is, odds favour the usual monthly futures games engineered by the same suspects who are now determined, one would think, to break free of their short positions at all cost.

It is our role to "guess" the lows by months' end for both the metals and their stocks. The exciting thing is that we know the only way out is up.

I have noticed a few small explorers have had nice gains since early October, if that means anything.