Thanks for your thoughts @JFI - I am thinking that I will hold off the third reload of my favourites Au golds until after 16th March fed meeting. I think there will be continuing bearish moves trying to hold back the bull on the rumours of a rate increase but this will clear (whichever way) after that date. I notice the US core PCE figures were mixed - some up some down - so it still seems a marginal call (to me anyway). After the 16 March I think we will have a clearer picture of price direction. Any initial sell down on a rate announcement might be a good time to buy some undervalued stocks IMHO