If the FED indeed try and manipulate the price of gold then this Christmas period is a perfect time for their actions to really work as the market is much lower volume over the Christmas period.
The last couple of days have seen the price of gold get pushed down at some point during the New York trading times.
I have quite a few limit buy orders all the way from $490 down to $465.
So although I will be enjoying the festive break I will hopefully have filled some of my buy orders.