Could gold rally to a new record high above its prior 2008 peak?

“We’re close to the end of the year, and I want to talk about something that is happening, something that few people are aware of.  W.D. Gann is considered by many professionals to have been one of the greatest commodity traders and thinkers of all times.  Here are Gann’s words, courtesy of my old New York friend, Ron Rosen.

‘When a stock or a commodity advances into new territory or to prices which it has not reached for months or years, it shows that the force or driving power is working in that direction.  It is the same principle as any other force which has been restrained and breaks out.  Water may be held back by a dam, but if it breaks through the dam, you would know that it would continue downwards until it reaches another dam or some obstruction or resistance which would stop it.’

Let’s apply Gann’s words to what’s recently been happening to gold.  The chart below traces the action of gold from 1980 to the present.  Note that gold rose to a record high back in 1980.  Then for 19 years gold fell back into a bear market.  Meanwhile, pressure to move higher was ‘bottled up’ in gold — until the year 1999.  In that year gold declined to a low of 297.  From its 297 low, gold rose in a new primary bull market.  In late-December 2007, after 28 years of being restrained, gold advanced above its old 1980 high of 850 and continued to a new record high of 1017.  From there . . . gold declined to ‘test’ its historic breakout area of 850. This brings us to the present. Gold is now rallying above and away from the 850 level, and it remains to be seen whether gold can now rally to a new record high above its prior 2008 peak.  If W.D. Gann’s thesis is correct, gold should now be on its way to complete its primary bull market.”