Bullish rising flag (chart 1) turns out to be a halfway pattern to the upside, taking price up to ~ 4.

(Approx. equal to the quarterly SMA 100, charts 2 & 3.)

If this did occur, I would expect gold, silver and the PM miners to take a serious beating.

RoW is beginning to get nervous that the US is heading towards bankruptcy and is going to demand a higher rate of interest

to offset that risk, so the macro backdrop fits in with the charts in this respect:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-14/goldman-what-going-us-usually-reserved-times-war