4 February 2016
The Barbarous Relic
Keynes and others may have referred to gold as a barbarous relic, but many investors continue to track it. In early January, we warned that gold appeared to be breaking out of a short-term bottoming pattern.
It had taken out a three-month downtrend line, which we suggested was part of a triangle pattern. Gold also traced out a double bottom pattern. The triangle pattern pointed to a move toward $1110 and the double bottom projected to around $1135. The yellow metal poked through $1157 today and remains near it highs in late turnover.