Big bankers and their institutional armies are trying to draw out us guerilla fighters into the open so that they can ambush us. How? Banks and the government by way of Goldman Sachs are trying to lure us into believing that a bottom has formed so that they can trade bank equity for cash before the flood of Alt-A, CC, and CRE resets hit that will cause more defaults. The US Treasury and the central bankers are forcing the perception that a bottom has formed. The US Treasury is working close with the central bankers to delay stress test results until after the major banks report their earnings. The US Treasury and bankers want this sucker rally to keep going as long as possible to draw more and more fools into the stock market or existing participants into long positions. This will let them sell equity to the public at inflated prices. Rumor has it that Goldman Sachs is planning a multi-billion dollar share sale in the coming weeks. To keep this perception of a bottom alive, the US Treasury is going to have to keep printing more and more money and continue to give billions of dollars to bankers. The longer the government and bankers try and maintain an illusion that a bottom has formed on Wall Street, the more the value of the US dollar will fall which makes gold an excellent guerilla fighter play. A bullish flag is working its way to completion in gold. Bullish flags are small counter-trend patterns that are pauses within an already existing uptrend. They typically occur in the middle of an uptrend. This puts a long term target on gold between $1,200 and $1,300.