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FintekNews compares the price of Bitcoin, Gold & Major Market Averages on a daily basis. FintekNews uses the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) bitcoin indexes (BRR & BRTI) for bitcoin pricing.

5/9/17 Closing Prices:

Bitcoin: $1,728.04 (+$133.39) Gold: $1,221 ($-6.00) Dow Jones Industrials: 20,975.78 (-36.50) S&P 500: 2,396.92 (-2.46) Nasdaq Composite: 6,120.59 (+17.93)

CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate & CME CF Bitcoin Real Time Index

Trading Summary Notes for Tuesday, 5/9/17:

  • Bitcoin hitting new all time highs
  • Bitcoin near term price target $1750-$1800. (May need to raise that again)
  • Bitcoin traders may want to lighten up on long positions.
  • Bitcoin traders raise sell stops from $1485-$1495 TO $1625-$1640
  • Gold stays extremely weak.
  • Stay short gold. Near term downside price target $1175-$1185
  • No reason to own gold.
  • LONG BITCOIN/SHORT GOLD

Past Market

Read our PRIOR daily commentaries on Bitcoin vs Gold here

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We wrote an article (8/17/16) going on the record saying bitcoin will outperform gold

throughout the future. We continue that call.