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The general stock market broke below its support level, while USD Index stopped at its multi-month resistance line. Given such mixed signals, precious metals wait for a decisive move from either of the abovementioned markets. What's next for gold and silver? Which market are they more likely to follow? Is gold likely to rise in all currencies? This week we deal with the above questions and comment on many other important developments in the precious metals market. Additionally, this issue features our ranking of top gold- and silver juniors.

The popular analysis of the Commitment of Traders report suggests that precious metals are likely to plunge – is this really the case here? This week we put the CoT report into bigger perspective and elaborate on the consequences for Gold and Silver Investors. Other topics covered this week include: China, cycles on the silver market, mining stocks strength relative to other stocks, and much more.

This week gold closed above the epic $1000 barrier for 4 days – a very bullish sign for the whole precious metals sector. On the other hand many indicators scream "overbought" and "sell now", as the rally has been really rapid. What's an Investor to do when strong, yet opposite signals come from various methods of analysis? What's a Speculator to do?

Finally gold touched a $1000 --a new floor or the same old ceiling? We examine how did gold perform in currencies other than USD and estimate if this might be a good time to ignore the RSI indicator’s overbought levels.

Precious metals stocks have made substantial gains this week. Are they overbought, prone to plunge or heading to the moon? Our correlations tables have turned the table on us and have gone topsy-turvy. What does all this mean?