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| Gold / Silver | 64.51 |
| Gold / Oil | 13.53 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.59 |
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 | Jeffrey Lewis |
| Silver Market Duality |
| Duality in trade in the precious metals markets has existed for decades. The decoupling has never been more obvious with the seeming dichotomy of prices versus demand and production. We can discuss things below the surface, but it's far different than what we see and try to interpret. Below the surface, fundamentals exist that would be barely recognizable. Above the surface, we are left with phantom markets created out of greed and supported by a seemingly everlasting flow of liquidity and hopeWednesday, June 19, 2013 |
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 | Dan Dontrose - The Fundamental View |
 A 62 millisecond move before the NFP number that led to a sell-off in gold |
| Another case where high frequency trading take the bottom out of markets. Someone got wind of the number before the official release and moved on it. I still can't believe that these trades cannot be tracked to a particular individual or firm.Friday, June 07, 2013 |
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| Jeffrey Lewis |
Silver Short Squeeze Scenario 420  |
| Short squeezes often create unstable markets, although a short covering rally based on sudden and consensus buying can also create a major boost to liquidity. This can have the effect of lighting the match that will ultimately detonate the bomb for markets already accustomed to substantial amounts of real or artificial liquidity.From a technical standpoint, silver is currently consolidating in a tight trading range as the market recovers from an oversold situation. The 14-day RSI currently readsSaturday, June 01, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Ted Butler: Busting the Perfect Crime |
| Obviously I do not know if the CFTC is going a good job of regulating the metals markets or not.
And that is a big part of the problem. I have little confidence that they are doing a good job of maintaining honest and efficient markets based on what I am seeing in the futures markets almost every day.
For an agency to have an ongoing investigation of manipulation in a global market like silver, with NO offical report having been issued after almost five years, is not up to the expectations tSaturday, May 25, 2013 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
No Mo' PoMo?  |
| Whenever the Federal Reserve wants to tweak the dials of the economy -- or pretend that it can -- it turns first to its sock puppet at The Wall Street Journal, John Hilsenrath, and "leaks" a rumor of policy change (here). They like to do this late on Fridays when financial markets are about to close, so that market players will have a whole weekend to ponder the Fed's actions like medieval viziers reading goat entrails. Last Friday's puddle of steaming guts was a supposed preview of the Fed'Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Clif Droke |
| How to spot (and avoid) market manipulation |
| We often hear investors complain of financial markets (and the gold market in particular) being "rigged" or manipulated. The sad yet somewhat humorous tale of Henry Gribbohm recently brought this accusation to life. The 30-year-old Gribbohm infamously lost his life savings of $2,600 on a carnival game in an attempt at winning an Xbox Kinect valued at $100. For his efforts, he walked away with a giant stuffed banana sans his $2,600 life savings.Gribbohm's tale is instructive if only because itFriday, May 10, 2013 |
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 | Jeffrey Nichols - Nichols on Gold |
| GOLD — Confounded by the Machines and Dark Pools |
| Gold continues to confound, dropping another $25 an ounce this morning as technical and computer-driven program trading triggers selling on U.S. derivative markets, all despite favorable fundamentals and what should be seen as favorable economic and geopolitical developments.
Gold Lower Despite Bullish News
This morning’s dispatches from India and China, the two biggest gold-consuming nations, report that demand in these markets continues unabated . . . and coin dealers report still-strong retaiWednesday, May 08, 2013 |
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 | John Rubino - Dollar Collapse |
| For Gold, Friday's COT Report Is Huge |
| The dominant explanation (in the sound money community at least) for the precious
metals crash is, well, sabotage. The metals exchanges were running out of physical
product and faced imminent default, so the major governments via their money
center bank proxies sold tens of billions of dollars of gold and silver futures
contracts, forcing prices down and triggering stop-loss orders and margin calls
that produced Monday's epic bloodbath.
These short positions were then covered at huge pFriday, April 19, 2013 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Zero Hedge mocks CFTC's supposed concern about gold and silver market rigging |
| Zero Hedge's pseudonymous Tyler Durden today has some wonderfully sardonic comment on the supposed musing of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission about the propriety of a few banks "fixing" gold and silver prices every day in London:
"We are confident that this latest noble CFTC effort will be for naught. After all, wholesale market manipulation like that of LIBOR and the energy market is contained to those sectors. It is preposterous and inconceivable that bankers, anywhere and especiaThursday, March 14, 2013 |
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 | Captain Hook - Treasure Chest |
| Protective Put Buying Fuels Rally |
| Just give me another reason to short the stock market and I?ll do it. That appears to be the operating mechanics of what is going on in the stock market right now, which accounts for the continued firmness in the tape. Whether it?s the Sequester, renewed trouble in Europe, seasonal timing considerations, or just the fact stocks are both over-bought and over-valued, both hedgers and naked speculators (but mostly hedgers) alike are buying protective puts like wild-men right now. For the hedgers, tWednesday, February 27, 2013 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 Not so smart  |
| One striking but little discussed element about the new Netflix Washington political drama series, House of Cards, is that every time a character picks up a cell phone, something bad happens. The character's phones shadow them at every turn like evil twins, giving the impression that the US government, and everything in its orbit, is run not by human beings but by cell phones.Monday, February 25, 2013 |
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 | Crisis Watch - James Howard Kunstler |
| Not so smart |
| Monday, February 25, 2013 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| John Kaiser: Can the TSX Venture Be Saved? |
| The Gold Report: John, at the Cambridge Conference in Vancouver, you spoke about visualizing an alternative to "zombie land," the zombies being the 1,000+ companies in the resource sector trading at less than $0.20/share, which include a good number of the more than 600 companies with less than $200,000 in the bank. You predicted at least 500 would go out of business in the next year. Is this a more dire scenario than before or are there just more companies?
John Kaiser: In the junior sector,Saturday, February 16, 2013 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 Cattle Drive |
| How hilarious is the Federal Reserve's cattle drive of cash money (i.e. "liquidity") into the stock markets? I'll tell you: if that cash is outflow from bonds that pay ZIRP interest rates, then this attempt to stampede investment into the stock market is only going to succeed in ravaging the bond market and by extension the credibility of the dollar, the US banking cartel, and then the world financial system as a whole. If bond-dumpers rush into stocks, then who are the next bond buyers atTuesday, February 05, 2013 |
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| The Gold Report |
| Pent-Up Potential for Precious Metals in 2013: Jason Hamlin |
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Debt, not the fiscal cliff, is what concerns Jason Hamlin, publisher of the Gold Stock Bull newsletter, and if his prediction of a split in the EU comes to pass, it will bolster the case for gold equities.In this Gold Report interview Hamlin shares his preference for royalty streamers and prospect generators in the gold space and explains his attraction to graphite.Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
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 | Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| The Gold Sandwich. Chew Carefully. |
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1.“High-Speed Trades Hurt Investors, a Study Says” – CNBC news headline, December 4, 2012.
2.When everything around you becomes more complex, you can try to employ more complexity yourself, to compete, or step back from it.High-frequency trading (HFT) is a very complex approach to markets.Wednesday, December 05, 2012 |
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