I think gold will continue to rise. The big dealers ripped people off for a long time by selling more gold "options" than there was gold to back them............this is what drove the price down. It has taken years for the system to start to recover. As it continues to recover, the price will climb back up to where it was when the market manipulation first started......which I think was around $850 a troy ounce at the time (around 1980). The government controlled the price of gold until 1973 (I may be off a year or so), I believe the set price was around $60 an ounce (up a little from the set price of $19 in the late 1700's) Once uncle sam stopped controlling the price, it immediately almost doubled. It continued to climb at a nice rate up until the "Gold Options" scam started in the 1980's.
So, with the cat out of the bag on the "options" scam, and the gold anti-trust Agency recently finding it's "Smoking Gun", I think that it will continue to rise, or at least hold it's ground for a while.
Paul