The week begins with a continued bullion smash.....................from Rico

How many of the original (I mean starring Sean Connery) Bond movies contained the lines "Kill Bond. Now!" spoken by the villain du jour?

Today we might instead feature the Cartel and/or your favorite Central Bank saying "Kill Bullion. Now!" as we begin another trading week with the same-old, same-old suspicious market activity.

- This is not the trading pattern of anyone concerned with making a profitable trade, but of smashing the paper markets to a lower price.

We start this week with an early paper bullion raid (a typical 'dawn patrol' by the Cartel) at a thin, no volume, hour before ANY legitimate traders have even woken-up.