Gold is under pressure again this week, the 4,000 level in focus ahead of the Fed.
The selloff is not a crack in the bull case. It is one stage of it.
The pattern repeats: energy shock, inflation, bond stress, credit repricing, forced selling, then central bank intervention. Gold gets sold in the forced-selling stage, 27% off its high this cycle, because in a squeeze you sell what you can, not what you want.
Then the intervention arrives, and the new liquidity reprices against gold.
The drawdown and the next leg up are the same event, seen at two moments.