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The country adds 220k jobs according to the bureaucrats measuring this stuff and fully paid for with your tax dollars in this supposed budget-crunching time in April and the market’s get a sigh of relief. Most of our stocks are up across the board, including gold and silver getting
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The broader markets are suffering today, but that’s not the case for our own portfolio as we enter the contra-hour. The 11% intraday drop in silver and 3.5% intraday drop in gold (and oil) declines are rather stunning in their magnitude, and I will be frank in telling
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The dislocation in gold and silver (and oil) are definitely the market story of the day, and everybody I talk to today wants to analyze why. Here’s an expanded and more detailed version of the post I did about why I started shorting gold and silver earlier this week.
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Silver’s down more than 8% this morning as the dislocations I was looking to take advantage roil the precious metal market places. Gold is down 2.5% too. A “dislocation” is anytime a trading asset moves more than 2% intraday, and is often an indicator of an ugly topping
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Shorting gold and silver today. But first — one of our loyal subscribers writes me: “If we are long term, is today not a day to buy a little more across the board?” The answer depends on you and what you’re trying to do with your own portfolio. My mission
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Good morning and welcome to the terror dome. The markets tried to open flattish, but quickly faded lower and it feels, shall we say, “squishy” out there this morning. The markets and individual stocks need to shake out the weak hands and punish the johnny-come-lately-bulls who were late to the
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Time to start shorting the precious metals? Back in early 2007, I used to write about the “dislocations” that were suddenly showing up with more frequency as I was worried and started selling partly because the stock market was seemingly entering a blow-off top phase. By dislocations, I meant any
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And there’s the market’s intraday fade that I was talking about in the post last night about what to expect from the market upon the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death. The morning pop and subsequent reversal weren’t nearly as dramatic as they were the Monday
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I’m republishing this for the email subscribers so you can tell where Marcin’s comments stop and mine start (look for the =====) One of my Wall Street mentors wrote the following today: Not the equity bulls. They had their head chopped off in 2008-2009. Even after a historic rally,
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One of my Wall Street mentors wrote the following today: Not the equity bulls. They had their head chopped off in 2008-2009. Even after a historic rally, they are subdued. I mean the commodity/precious metal bulls, currently the most arrogant group of investors on the planet. According to these
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I’ve added to my Cisco January 13 $20 strike price calls and will continue to look to add to existing positions into the close depending on how much we might sell off in the contra (final) hour. As the markets’ sell offs accelerate here as word of Saudi Arabia’