The gold market clearly managed to outperform the silver market in the trade on Friday. In fact, for the gold market to manage any form of bounce in the face of a rising Dollar, sagging oil and weakness in the rest of the metals complex was simply quire surprising. Given the high to low slide in the gold market this week of roughly $48 an ounce it certainly wasn't that surprising to see the gold market forge a short covering bounce. Given the overly disappointing US Non Farm payroll readings and the sharp slide in the equity market it is possible that flight to quality buying was seen at times during the trade Friday.