jman: gold has been tied closely to stock market since ben started the QE1, QE2, OT1. If fact, market still outperform gold since march 2009. Why you constantly believe market will crash and gold will sky rocket as many so called gold experts is beyond me. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5Egspc#symbol=%5Egspc;range=20090302,20120512;compare=gld;indicator=;charttype=candlestick;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=1;logscale=off;source=undefined;