by Ted Butler, Silver Seek:

Gold’s quiet rally that began at the start of Globex trading in New York on Thursday evening was turned lower around 8:40 a.m. China Standard Time on their Friday morning — and its low tick was set at exactly 11 a.m. CST. It then wandered quietly higher until at or minutes before the 10:30 a.m. morning gold fix in London — and was sold a tiny bit lower from there until the jobs number hit the tape. The gold price went ‘no ask’ — and ‘da boyz’ appeared in seconds — and had the price back to its pre-8:30 a.m. price by 9:15 a.m. It crawled quietly higher from there until it took off anew starting a few minutes before 12 o’clock noon — and the commercial traders of whatever stripe reappeared — engineering it brutally lower until around 2:15 p.m. in after-hours trading in New York. Its ensuing rally ran into ‘something’ about fifteen minutes later– and from that juncture it crept very quietly higher until the market closed at 5:00 p.m. EST.