Sunday, September 11, 2011

Dollar Strength actually is good for GOLD



We looked at the Dollar-Gold 1yr Correlation since the 70ties and found that with one exception a rising Dollar and a rising Correlation coming from negative correlation levels of below -80% usually seem to act as jetfuel for gold.

To better understand the pattern imagine the following sequence of events...
  1. Gold rises ,
  2. Dollar tumbles ,
  3. "end of the Dollar" seems approaching
  4. inflation expectations rise
  5. asset prices begin to fall
  6. dollar rises from deleveraging and reserve currency status and certainly from EURO weakness ( <=> ".....dollar is the least bad currency out of a basket of bad choices")
  7. Safehaven SWISSFRANC disappears
  8. QE3, QE4 ... and European equivalents and all sorts of "fiscal and monetary fixes and programs" are expected
  9. inflation expectations rise again (in an actually deflationary environment)
  10. Gold is extremely overbought but doesn't really put in a deeper correction and simply corrects sideways (over time)
  11. BUYING PANIC in GOLD arrives !!
There is a chance that we are in stage 9 and/or 10. If Gold just buys time over the next weeks and the stock market falls another x% and the political class opts for "fixes" then better start moving into Gold, Cash or the Dollar (or all of them).

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