Downward forces again hit gold and silver -- can it continue?

``hereby remains the huge dichotomy that is gold.  Demand for physical gold has seldom, if ever, been higher.  Premiums being applied mean that those buying are happy to pay far higher prices than the official prevailing ones, yet the paper markets continue to force gold down.  At some stage one side or the other is going to have to give and there seems little sign of physical gold purchasing slowing down to any serious extent, although one supposes investor fatigue could set in given gold's continued poor performance.''