This article explores "antifragility" in a volatile market, highlighting gold and defensive proxies as essential hedges when bond-equity correlations fail. It emphasizes preparation for market chaos over making specific predictions.

The odds that $5,000 gold and $100 silver would happen on the same day seemed pretty slim. Yet here we are, with that being a very real possibility:

Gold and silver are warning signals. The dollar is breaking down, commodities are turning up, and the move into precious metals and mining stocks is still early.

The S&P 500 is stuck in a 100 point range on a $7,000 product. That compression is historic. When it breaks, the move will be violent in either direction.