Silver took a dump after triggering what had looked like a promising ‘mechanical’ buy at 23.80, the green line. Its February Gold counterpart has held up better and appears primed for a rally to a profit-taking level at 2086, about 35 dollars above Friday’s close.  Is Silver’s recalcitrance a bearish divergence? I doubt it. It is probably just a variation on an all-too- familiar theme of jerking everyone’s chain whenever possible. Let’s cross our fingers and hope silver plays catch-up with gold in the week ahead.