The metals have been held up remarkedly well given it's options expiry tomorrow. Normally they get smacked down bigtime, albeit temporarily, yet no smackdown as yet.
What gives? Spooked shorts, that's what.
A massive surge in the metals will come before year's end, and come it will.
Once 1800 is breached in gold, the subsequent northward surge to the magnitude of a couple of hundred bucks in short order will leave the paper shills licking their wounds in shame.