Platinum paused the steady recovery from 9 years of weakness for most of last week.  Platinum fell to an all time low of 2.46 x less than gold and reached 1.36 the previous week. A 44% recovery from peak to bottom thusfar. The apparent rapid advance of Daily risk weight llke this is a pause reaching for bearish divergence between Short and longer time scales. Physical Platinum is a solid low risk hold in the present economic regime.

Weekly risk weight is oversold and showing bullish divergence. With Daily starting to diverge and Monthly and Quarterly still in strong downtrends, we do not consider Weekly risk weight a threat to the main trend of Platinum recovery versus Gold.

26/2: Monthly risk weight dropped to 9% last week and is now at 14%. This is not a change of trend interestingly enough as the 9% was  an interim monthly reading. This trend is still down and has more room to bottom at a lower level before a longer correction may take place. There will not be a straight line to par and beyond with gold, although it is theorectically possible. Let's see how March develops. For now it looks as if Platinum can hold its relative strenght for a few more months.

26/2: The Interim quarterly risk weight reading is slightly higher than last week (25 vs 24) which is the result of a higher close this week relative to a larger price range. This trend is down and will pause at some point, which may even be soon.  The direction is for Risk weight to need much more time to bottom which requires the ratio to continue its recovery towards par during 2021 and beyond.

Major trends in important traditional asset classes can be identified by the simple observation that they are correcting from an outside trange price level into equilibrium. This is happening with Platinum and with Silver via a vis gold. 50 year equilibrium (1971-2021) is now at 0.88. Or AU at 1800 and PT at 2000.  The corrective move we now experience will need time to complete. The most likely scenario is for this ratio to sweep through the equilibrium before finding its speculative bottom.

Weekly risk trend turned up at same level, which produce some upward price pressure, i.e gold to recover somewhat from its relative weakness in coming weeks. Considering all timescales, the ratio can expect further pressure as short versus long timescale bearish divergence will determine the medium term and long term future.  This is the kind of scenario that develops in nearly 100% of all fast moving markets.

19/2: Monthly risk has dropped to 9%. This is low, but fast moving markets seeking their natural equilibrium may pause but not stop until such balanced price point has been achieved. Markets will typically shoot beyond those balance price points and experience some serious and increasing volatility in the process.  Only active traders with physical longs should trade or hedge with short term derivatives, but not more than 30% of the physical position. Leveraged portfolio's are outside of our risk management parameters.

12/2: Looking at the Gold/Platinum monthly chart we notice a strong price trend south and equivalent risk weight closing in on oversold. The chart also shows how past monthly risk weight levels, up or down, often took one year or more before the primary trend tops or bottoms out. We should expect the same. It is a strong trend and we have a substantial cushion to allow for any medium term reversal and a major extension towards and beyond the 1:1 ratio. At the present level of Gold, platinum has another $600 dollars to go and we expect to see that happening sooner rather than later due to a much more limited market liquidity in physical platinum.

19/2: Of course the interim figures are showing further decline and the current level is at 24%. This major downtrend of the Gold to Platinum ratio historically should take several more quarters before the shorter term timescales signal a potential bottom exit. The base wealth preservation position is a substantial 50% with a fairly evenly diversified precious metals portfolio where Platinum rates at 35%. If Pt moves substantially closer towards its 50 year equilibrium, the  Platinum share of total precious metals will increase and may need to be rebalanced to remove speculative risk.

12/2: Interim Quarterly risk weight closed the week of  8-12 Febr at 28 versus 37 last week. This rapidly dimishing risk weight is pretty common after  a market has lost 35% of its value from the March 2020 peak. The current ratio at 1.46 is still well above the average ratio price based on a quarterly close for the past 50 years. That average 200 quarter Gold/Platinum ratio is 0.88.  We have also seen Pt trade at a ratio of 0.5 on extension just like the totally unreal pump to 2.26 last March. 0.5 ratio means Platinum would need to gain another $2,400 relative to gold. It has happened before.