"are we being manipulated or are we just wrong."
Considering the uptrend since 2001, it is clear that we are not wrong. Manipulation makes us wrong temporarily.
Jim Sinclair now declares that the ESF is full into the gold market and that they now throw anything at gold necessary to keep it from moving up, considering the systemic risk following Cyprus.
I have an additional theory and that is that this may be also meant to help JP Morgan and possibly other US TBTF Banks to get long the PM's and make tremendous profits on the way up, so they can recapitalize their balance sheets. I just hope they are done doing so and we can make that tremendous move up. Hope is all there is left.