Back in April 2007, I wrote about the three stages that appear in every bull market, and more to the point, that gold was approaching the end of stage one.<>http://www.fgmr.com/end-of-stage-is–rapidly-approaching.html<>  Gold back then was still trading around $690, and therefore well below its then record high of $850 reached in January 1980.  My view was that “gold looks ready to make a new all-time high. When that happens, stage two begins. There will not yet be widespread excitement about gold in the next stage, because that won’t occur until stage three. But when gold makes a new record high, and particularly after it breaks into a 4-digit price, people will begin paying attention.”