Darren Heathcote Quotations

We're still in a bit of consolidation...I think everything is still pretty good, still positive for gold. It doesn't really have any momentum to push it down.

We've seen gold break the correlation with the dollar in recent times. We saw gold strengthening even though the U.S. dollar was strengthening.

The fact that it hasn't broken through, sustained a break through $535 is probably helping people to find a bit more confidence to buy it back again.

Obviously, the funds will be looking to speculate and make some money out of this. But I am still of the opinion that the spike might be somewhat short-lived.

People will be eyeing $450 as the target. It may not be today. It will be very quiet in the States.

Certainly, it looks like we are targeting $600 in the near term. It may happen in London overnight.

If we sustain this break for the duration of the day, then I think we will be looking to test $495 again.

If the statement that follows suggests they may look to halt their policy of raising in moderation, to the extent that they're not going to raise rates again at the next meeting, then the dollar could suffer on the back of that and that would give a boost to gold.

I think the scope is great to move down to the lows of the $525 area before building again for another move up.

It doesn't look like we've got any particular drivers to push it either down or much higher.

We are now looking to target about $534,50, with $539 probably the resistance. But I still think we need to see a break below $525 to see an immediate reversal in the trend.

We are still in an upward trend. The fundamentals are still in place but I think we are having a bit of a shake-out.

At the moment the mood is still jubilant.

At the moment, I think we're lacking a little bit of direction.

There's some profit-taking now, but look at where we are. It's broken $520, the target we had yesterday ... looks like $525 is the next target.

There's a severe lack of interest in Asia. There was some physical buying on the dips down. That's started to dissipate.

There's definitely more buying in gold, obviously on inflationary fears. The funds have continued to buy.

It's dizzy high, and we're looking at a very overbought market. We're looking for a correction. It has to come at some point. However, given where oil is, it may well give some support on the downside.

There was a significant drive in Japan in recent weeks. People are very happy to be jumping on the bandwagon and basically riding the thing up.

It's really struggling to find momentum to go back up again.

I just think silver is getting a little more speculation than it normally would.

Investment funds are pushing gold. The drive for it is still fundamentally sound.

Geopolitical tensions continue to keep people invested in gold. People are content to be long in precious metals than the dollar, or other investments.

I do wonder about the validity of silver as an alternative investment vehicle.

The funds are still happy to play around at these levels. They expect us to look to test the upside a little bit but I don't necessarily at this stage think we are going to do $500.