This Will Push The Gold Market Over The Edge

Jon Gold, Market Commentary, Politics, Precious Metals

This could be the year that the mainstream investor finally pushes the gold market over the edge. While a fraction of investors continue to acquire a lot of physical gold, the mainstream investor is the key to driving the gold market and price going forward.
Why? Because the diehard precious metal investors don’t have the sort of leverage as do the mainstream investors, which account for 99% of the market. I have stated several times in articles and interviews that it will be the surge of gold buying by the mainstream investor that will finally overwhelm the gold market.
This next chart shows just how much leverage the mainstream investor has on the gold market. When the Dow Jones Index fell a lousy 2,000 points during the first quarter of 2016, mainstream investors flooded into Gold ETF’s & Funds. This continued into the second quarter, including the surge in buying after the BREXIT ‘Leave Vote’ this past Friday:

This post was published at SRSrocco Report on June 27, 2016.