Actually Coach, Gartman has allude to some strange activity in the gold market a few times which is his way of saying there is some manipulation without espousing on it at length. I believe from following Gartman for a long time that he does see some invisible hand on occassion as he does in some other markets but he is loath to get into this or spend energy on it because as with any momentum trader he only can't see the forest for the trees and is very short term oriented. I almost swear he doesn't have the intellectual capacity to delve into issues or how they effect long term investing as this is not his thing.