We see the writing on the wall of some changes that could be taking place in the copper market. However, at this point, we're not necessarily at a point where we can call for that yet.

We saw the writing on the wall as we started slowly in the early part of the day inching through some key support levels and when that type of attitude never stopped, it just continued and hit stops below different levels.

Everybody seems to be talking about the strength in the dollar. That gave an impetus for some profit-taking in the gold today.

It was a combination of long liquidation and fund selling. We do see rising copper stocks and that is some of the impetus behind the recent pressure.

We had some early fund buying this morning. And we had some midday trade buying.

We opened the day stronger and continued a little higher, and then as a slight surprise to some, ended up holding the positive tone throughout the day - whereas sometimes on days like this in the past you've given up the bulk of those gains. Silver, specifically, closed relatively close to the highs.