fwiw - here's the gold chart and the big cup i mentioned...

fwiw - here's the gold chart and the big cup i mentioned yesterday. was having issues with my chart software at the time

while MKR is primarily a silver play - gold usually has to be moving north for silver to uprate meaningfully - so its all about gold price first, silver second

the olive (?) arc is what i was referring to.

its not critical gold price stays within the arc over periods less than ~6 months - but really big moves below arc would indicate the bull consolidation behaviour - which is what that arc is - had broken