Ohhhh Ahhhh Ohhhh! Palladium!

[PatColo]

Stillwater Mining same 2.5 year cup/handle breakout,
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/qui...&show=&time=12

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/kaa...579&mocktick=1

Rough week for Pd... it was holding up so well, again relative to the PM slide.

Rough quarter for SWC. From yearly high of 19.42 in July/Aug, to yesterday's 11.91 close... off 9.4%

38.7% slide from its yearly high, in ~3 months.

[Neuro]

Even with the dump, the silver to Palladium ratio looks really good.

Right now 747/15.43=48.3 Pd/Ag ratio right now...

[JohnQPublic]

Right now 747/15.43=48.3 Pd/Ag ratio right now...

49.1 now. When it starts exceeding 50, I go hmmmm......

[palani]

http://books.google.com/books?id=2rw...ladium&f=false

Interesting 1859 book describing the history of palladium ... seems originally they thought it was merely an amalgam of platinum and mercury ... and several experiments describing the affinity of palladium to carbon and its use to combine oxygen and hydrogen to form water.

[PatColo]

49.1 now. When it starts exceeding 50, I go hmmmm......

you go hmmmm, then what? Like, it's a good time to do... what?

I guess I'd want to see a long term (25, 50 years?) price chart overlaying Pd & Ag, plus a relative strength (Pd divided by Ag) line also overlayed, so I could see: when the RS gets to such-n-such extremes, xyz price action usually happens next... you know a chart website where I could do this?

I'm skeptical though; as the PMs are "political metals"; for example I've seen PD's buoyancy this year attributed to Pd miners' strikes, and something or another happening in Russia, the leading Pd producer?

[PatColo]

Here's daily & weekly Pd bar graphs,
http://tfccharts.com/chart/PA_/
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/PA_/W

monthly only updates at the end of trading for a given month (as weekly updates end of Fri trading), so this is through end of Mar '14,
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/PA_/M

Compare to Pd's kissin cousin Pt:
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/PL_/
^ change to weekly/monthly in the sidebar. Nice time to check, as both are updated through Fri 11/28. Something (seekrit) keeping Pd buoyant.

http://www.kitco.com/LFgif/pd1825nyb.gif http://www.kitco.com/LFgif/pt1825nyb.gif


Stillwater bound to bounce back too, $13.13 close friday, I think I'll jump on some

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/qui...&show=&time=12

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/kaa...579&mocktick=1

[Neuro]

49.1 now. When it starts exceeding 50, I go hmmmm......

Hmmmm....?

[Neuro]

you go hmmmm, then what? Like, it's a good time to do... what?

I guess I'd want to see a long term (25, 50 years?) price chart overlaying Pd & Ag, plus a relative strength (Pd divided by Ag) line also overlayed, so I could see: when the RS gets to such-n-such extremes, xyz price action usually happens next... you know a chart website where I could do this?

I'm skeptical though; as the PMs are "political metals"; for example I've seen PD's buoyancy this year attributed to Pd miners' strikes, and something or another happening in Russia, the leading Pd producer?

The Russian angle is very interesting, plus I read somewhere that Pd is a necessary catalyst in ammunition production! War with Russia would be a double whammy for Pd price, but of course I could see the drawbacks of such a development too... But it could be the explanation why Pd is going against the current... There is very real speculation of war with Russia. One could probably say that Cold War II has already started, and lets hope that Pd price is only a projection of that... Not expectation of WWIII!

[PatColo]

Nice pop to $818 (ask), marking the intraday high so far. These kitco 72-hour charts update when this GSUS page loads, so this is current:

http://www.kitco.com/images/live/plad.gif


I believe 818 pierces the ceiling of this little consolidation base we've been in since late Sept, over 2 months now...


http://www.kitco.com/LFgif/pd0182nyb.gif


Be interesting to see where we close on COMEX today?

Strong USD Index day again too-- 88.84 ATM, +0.25%


http://d1vin4er4t7w5i.cloudfront.net...%24DXY&time=3m

I did buy some SWC Mon morning; paid a touch too much though in short-term hindsight, $13.20
http://bigcharts.com/quickchart/quic...e=&freq=&show=

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/kaa...579&mocktick=1

[JohnQPublic]

I am thinking it may have something to do with cold fusion breakthroughs, but the only breakthroughs being reported are based on nickel (ecat). Maybe there is somethig else going on that is not being reported.

http://blogs.economictimes.indiatime...ear-reactions/

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...ty-of-gasoline

http://www.sifferkoll.se/sifferkoll/...portSubmit.pdf

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/clean...of-potential-c