Some commentators in the gold and silver space have pointed out that since the weekly COT reports cover the week ended the previous Tues. when they are released at the end of weekly trading on Fridays, the manipulation window runs from Wednesday to Tuesday for any given week. While not having said that explicitly myself, I have hinted at the same since I started pointing out here in many of my posts the phenomena of “Tuesday Takedowns” over the last few years. It has morphed and changed a bit in the last 6 months or so but the relationship still has some bearing. Well, here is a thought. Since one day (tomorrow being Tues.) isn’t going to make much difference one way or another, if you were the manipulators and you know a great many followere of the precious metal space are expecting that no bottom would take place before tomorrow at the earliest, would you accomodate them or would you instead have your bottom and reversal a day before anyone would be expecting it? So while the odds based on their track record would suggest at least one more low or at least a test of today’s lows, tomorrow, if I were running the manipulation scheme I would have finished covering my shorts today and get the jump on everyone waiting for the Tuesday bottom. Just a thought. The charts and technicals say the metals are as oversold and washed out as they are likely to get. However, we know that with so much on the line, the manipulators will get away with the price suppression, for as long as they possibly can.