In a recent Charts in Play column, I reviewed the monthly OBV analysis on the gold futures contract as it has been making new highs with prices since 2002.

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In order to conduct the sort of statistical analysis Silver faults Noonan's column for lacking, you'd need a representative database of persons who are politically active and a method of coding their political activity by ideology and intensity.

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For comparison purposes I have provided the relative performance or RS Analysis chart of FBIOX that you are more familiar with from my daily column.

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