Rob, a fascinating (and tantalizing) peek into the algorithms you've developed and the years of charting and number-crunching you must have devoted to working them out. And it must be a glorious moment when you see it all coming together as you hoped it would! So felicitations, and may you always be at the right place at the right time, market-wise
It's true that at the end of the day, gold is just another commodity with no intrinsic value. On the other hand, it's value has never been 'zero'. Which can't be said of all kinds of paper, right down to printed money itself. Physical gold is also a wonderful way to lose your shirt, so to speak. I've been hanging on the sidelines of the gold investment freaks for nearly a year, reading the daily input on the Kitco gold discussion forum https://www.kitcomm.com/
Incidentally, there is (was?) a guy named AuBull who was posting some of the funniest [censored] I've ever read, bar none, until he apparently disappeared into Mexico about a month ago, leaving his thread 'Goldville: the only town worth livin' in ...' to his alcolytes - who are a hell of a lot less funny than he was. It takes a lot to get me to laugh, but this guy managed to do it on a daily basis.
Imagine a hillbilly Dave Barry writing about gold investment and the economy...Damn, but I miss him.
"... mid-day glory ... Divergence Heaven .... ain't seen a spread like this since Nadia Comaneci worked the parallel bars ... "
Check out his posts if you have the time - forum page 2, and backtrack three or four months in his thread ....