Thanks, Hobbers.

It's not that I am particularly interested in trading positions myself, because I am not a trader. It is just that I am wondering day in day out how the trading programs keep gold, silver and the mining shares locked up in a perpetuous consolidating TA pattern, while the fundamentals are screaming for a shot straight up for quite a long time now.

So I just hoped that anyone would come up with a sort of existing carry trade negative for gold, which may be ending this Friday. Something of the size of the dollar/yen carry trade, which can reverse at enormous speed. How to explain otherwise what is happening with gold and the gold miners?