Friday’s spirited rally at the opening bell was over in minutes, leaving traders with little to do but pick their teeth for the rest of the day as the futures shuffled sideways in a tiresome consolidation.  It projects unmistakably to 1555.00, but traders will have to be nimble and alert Sunday night to catch a piece of the implied $10 thrust.  Pivoteers might want to note that the intraday high occurred a single tick from the 1546.10 Hidden Pivot midpoint of the pattern shown. This implies that any move above it will produce a precisely tradable top at 1555.00.  That number would become our minimum upside objective for the very near-term as soon as 1546.10 is exceeded. _____ UPDATE ( 9:19 a.m. EDT):  Gold’s thrust this morning has somewhat bettered the forecast, exceeding a 1555.00 target by $2.20 so far. This is bullish going forward and portends more upside to at least 1564.00, a Hidden Pivot target that can be found by sliding down to July 7’s 1525.40 low for a new ‘A’. It’s so very nice to see gold moving opposite stocks for a change, since it suggest the usually tone-deaf imbeciles and brazen thieves of the financial world “get it” with respect to how close Europe is to the edge of the abyss.