THIS IS A BREAK DOWN OF WHY I CHOSE THE "DARK HORSE" ROUTE TO BE THE FAVORITE.
1) First the red route, which is the 2009-2010 fractal and eliminated a while ago. In this this route, gold would have been rejected at all time highs and gone down already. Honestly, this was not ever considered seriously because of the way prices moved up without any real pullbacks. Once it pushed past 1930 and kept going, it was obvious this is not happening.
2) The green route is what I originally forecasted in PRS LIVE#1 version 2. This was forecasted based on the "average expected move" in this situation for gold in a bull market. It hasn't been completely eliminated, but has already missed the first move bc the correction never dipped under 1900 in spot or futures. Price/volume picture really doesn't say this is going to happen. That leaves really two choices.
3) The black route IS THE EXACT ROUTE OF 2011 BAR FOR BAR, DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR. This is different from a "fractal", which only has to be similar in a number of ways. For example, the red route in 2009-2010 is similar but 3:1, meaning it would only be the same if you view 2009-2010 in daily bars and current move in 8 hour bars, AND cap the current move at 1938. For 2011 move, I just traced it and lined it up. This is still very much in play for that very reason. If you took the 2011 route and squeeze it into 10-15% faster, THAT IS EXACTLY what price has been doing. I am "starting" to think this "maybe" the favorite, but I have other reasons why not.
4) The blue route is current forecast, the dark horse route I introduced a couple days ago that became and is still the favorite. This is the 1980 fractal. How so? Like 2011, it is about 15% slower than current move end-to-end (measured from the low at 1670). But it is also different in proportions. This means that the base and the spike are proportional in ratio but not %-wise moves. 1980 was much more massive. In order to be similar in % terms, we would be over 3000 right NOW, and we're not. However it is similar to the current moves if judged by comparing the "complete regression fractal" viewed from different angles because changing bar size makes the regression picture look different for each chart. This is to say that if viewed from 1-day and 2-day full of regression lines, you get a very similar result both times. NOT TRUE FOR 2011. Plus this 9 green day 1 black day is exact same for 1980. This illustrates the smoothness of the momentum and lack of selling that is convincing me of that this is the favorite. When I pull up PIVO on several time frames, volume trends say the move is half done at the most. The smoothness of the volume trends and the agreement of volume trends across multiple gold instruments (futures, spot, etf, etc...) forces the conclusion that if this moves up, it should follow the 1980 fractal due to:
a) momentum of price and,
b) momentum of momentum, meaning not just moving a certain direction but the even-ess and lack of counter-trend correction of said move and finally,
c) GC1!, GC2! XAUUSD (OANDA, XAUUSD (ICE/IDC), and GLD very seldom ALL AGREE in terms of bullishness over the intermediate horizon (20-days) out like they do right now.
>> I'm still thinking hard about this. First we won't really find out until end of NEXT WEEK, which is where the the moves really diverge in terms of price. What the 2011 route has going for it is the move HAS BEEN DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR, so this is also VERY VERY CONVINCING. Plus it requires a correction or pause in prices to allow gold to move higher. THIS ARGUMENT IS VERY STRONG IN TERMS OF PRICE ACTION. It's hard to say that this is SOMEHOW the one unique time that gold breaks a previous high and move 15% up without a stronger correction in price and time before moving higher. I am not against gold moving higher, I just think that based on historical price action it's VERY HARD TO SAY 2300 NEXT 2 WEEKS. I chose that anyway because my software projects that in volume and price, essentially a mathematical projection based on where we stand, period. So we will see if PRS can get this right, this would be so interesting if we really do take the blue route.
I will add comparison charts IFF I have time.