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 | Steve Saville - Speculative Investor |
| TSI’s Principles of Technical Analysis |
| Although my primary focus is on the fundamentals, I do use Technical Analysis (TA). However, many of my TA-related beliefs deviate from the mainstream. Below is a collection of these beliefs presented in no particular order. The collection is not comprehensive, but it gives an overview of how I think historical price action can and can’t be used.
Note that there is significant repetition in the following list, in that a similar meaning is sometimes conveyed in separate points using different worFriday, November 20, 2020 |
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 | Gary Savage - Smart Money Tracker |
| LOSSES ARE JUST PART OF THE GAME |
| How many times have we heard this one: “He/she/they caused me to blow up my account”?
Blaming someone else for your losses. Pretty much every novice trader in the world goes through this phase, and many experienced traders as well.
Now I’m going to let you in on a secret that will save you thousands or even millions if you will listen and heed this warning.
Everyone loses from time to time. It’s an inevitable fact. No one, and I mean no one will ever win 100% of the time.
Here’s another secret tMonday, August 24, 2020 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Two Bullets |
| I’ve read the following article so many times I can just about recite both from memory. I found it years ago, anon, thank you, you’ve helped keep me focused.
I hope readers find Two Bullets as useful as I did.
Aheadoftheherd.com
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Two Bullets
Several years ago, I met someone, Trader Joe, who was an expert technical trader. I call him an expert because he lived off of his profits, he was financially independent, and he frequently went on random scuba diving and bird watching vacations atWednesday, May 13, 2020 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| BMG's Brandon White: Confession by ex-Morgan trader vindicates GATA |
| Brandon White of bullion dealer BMG in Canada, commenting in his "This Week in 3 Minutes" video, remarks that this week's confession to gold and silver market rigging by a former trader for JPMorganChase --
http://www.gata.org/node/18598
-- is vindication for GATA.
Even more so it may be vindication for silver market rigging exposer Ted Butler, but we'll take what we can get.
White's commentary is, as you might expect, three minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/YPNi7Sunday, November 11, 2018 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Riding the Current Wave in Bitcoin |
| In a move surprising to some, the SEC has announced that a number of cryptocurrency exchanges must register with the agency. Without naming names, the race has begun to determine if a specific platform meets the definitions put forward by the SEC. As our readers are aware, this is actually not surprising at all. In fact, it is only one small step in a broader trend recognizable in the Bitcoin market. How this specific event translates into the current trading conditions is what’s most interestinSaturday, March 10, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Debt and Delusions – Part 2 |
| This article was written for Miles Franklin by Gary Christenson. Part one is available here.
The problem with debt is the creditor expects to be repaid.
Sovereign debt will be “rolled over,” never extinguished, and repaid with new debt. We delude ourselves and pretend total debt will increase forever (it can’t). That explains global debt exceeding $230 trillion today and official U.S. government debt approaching $21 trillion, with unfunded liabilities adding another $100 – $200 trillion. There aSaturday, March 10, 2018 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Is Gold Worth More Or Less Than Its $1900 High In 2011 |
| One of the challenges with investing in precious metals is that there is so much distortion in the market that figuring out a true fair value is not always the easiest thing to do. Yet there are clues investors can look at that indicate that when the price starts to move, it won’t be by a small amount.
Back in 2011 I was still working as an equity options trader on the New York Stock Exchange, and was about two years into my studies of the precious metals market. Following the collapse of the suFriday, March 9, 2018 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
| The Rhyme of the Ancient Speculator: Bullish Silver COT |
| Twenty-seven months and two days ago, I was under huge emotional duress due to the dreadful action in the gold market as prices had been under severe manipulative pressure since mid-October. Under the excruciating weight of incessant shenanigans (interventions), the price of gold was in abject freefall, having plunged from $1,189.90 to $1,062.60 or around 10.7% in a mere six weeks. On Friday, December 4, the COT for the week ended December 1, 2015. was reported and as I read the gold portion ofSaturday, March 3, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| New gold-backed monetary system described in GoldSeek Radio interview |
| GoldSeek Radio's Chris Waltzek today interviews Thomas Coughlin and London metals trader Andrew Maguire about the launch of the Allocated Bullion Exchange and what they hope will become a worldwide monetary system they call Kinesis, which will include a gold-backed cryptocurrency. The interview is 25 minutes long and can be heard at GoldSeek Radio here:
http://radio.goldseek.com/nuggets/kinesis.02.28.18.mp3Thursday, March 1, 2018 |
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| Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Vicious Trio Keeps Bitcoin in Chokehold |
| The craziness of it. Bitcoin has been storming up and down, from $20,000 to $6,000 and back to $11,000 again. This volatility makes most traders’ stomachs churn, their faces go pale and their palms start to sweat. As if this action weren’t enough, an unknown trader has put their money where their mouth is – all $400 million of it. One can’t help but wonder what in the market justifies such an extreme move. On the Fortune website, we read:
An anonymous trader has sunk $400 million—enough to buy NFriday, February 23, 2018 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| OWN GOLD BEFORE PANDORA REOPENS THE BOX |
| In the old Greek mythology, the opening of Pandora’s box unleashed many evils on the world. Within the next few years, we will see a modern Pandora’s box being opened that will lead to events in the world which will be as devastating as when the ancient box was opened. The very big difference is that this time the consequences will not be part of historical mythology. Instead they will be real and catastrophic for the whole world on a scale never experienced in history.
Pandora – the all givingFriday, February 23, 2018 |
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 | Theodore Butler - Butler Research |
 No Manipulation, After All |
| In the never-ending search to either verify or rebut one’s own findings, I’d like you to consider something different today. I’m going to ask you to set aside my highly specific allegations of wrong-doing in the silver and gold markets, mostly centering on JPMorgan, and focus instead on whether if what I allege is really wrong or even matters much. Even though my allegations are based upon data published by the CFTC and CME Group, I would ask you to put that aside and consider that I may have beThursday, February 15, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| The Economist: Insider trading has been rife on Wall St., academics conclude |
| Insider-trading prosecutions have netted plenty of small fry. But many grumble that the big fish swim off unharmed. That nagging fear has some new academic backing, from three studies. One argues that well-connected insiders profited even from the financial crisis. The others go further still, suggesting the entire share-trading system is rigged.
What is known about insider trading tends to come from prosecutions. But these require fortuitous tipoffs and extensive, expensive investigations, invoMonday, February 12, 2018 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Bullion Price Suppression To End Bullion Bank Traders Arrested For Manipulating Market |
| – CFTC fines UBS, HSBC and Deutsche Bank millions of dollars each for gold price manipulation – Deutsche Bank ‘engaged in a scheme to manipulate the price of precious metals futures contracts’– UBS ‘attempted to manipulate the price of precious metals futures contracts’– HSBC engaged ‘in numerous acts of spoofing with respect to certain futures products in gold and other precious metals’– Gold ‘experts’ continue to deny legal rulings, evidence amassed by GATA, admissions by banks and central banThursday, February 1, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Mr. 50-Cent VIX Strikes Again |
| A person or fund has been making enormous bets on VIX calls priced near 50 cents. The CALL volume spiked again Friday.
Bloomberg reports ‘50 Cent’ Is Buying Up Big on March VIX Calls.
Trading patterns associated with the trader dubbed “50 Cent” resurfaced on Friday as 50,000 March VIX calls with a strike price of 24 were purchased for 49 cents a pop.
“I think for a while ‘50 Cent’ became ‘30 Cent,’” said Pravit Chintawongvanich, head of derivatives strategy at Macro Risk Advisors. “There were aMonday, January 29, 2018 |
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 | Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| GDX $25 Breakout on Earnings |
| The
world’s leading gold-stock ETF is nearing a major upside breakout
from key technical levels. GDX is getting closer to challenging and
powering above $25. That would accelerate the sentiment shift in
this deeply-undervalued sector back to bullish, enticing investors
to return. Good operating results from the major gold miners in
their upcoming Q4’17 earnings season could prove the catalyst to
fuel this GDX $25 breakout.
The
classic way to measure gold-stoFriday, January 19, 2018 |
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 | Rory Hall - The Daily coin |
| Gold and Silver Paper Illusions Coming to an End |
| The crime syndicates known as the COMEX and LBMA have been fully exposed over the past several years – really beginning with the 2011 assault on both gold and silver when the flood of paper contracts derivatives overwhelmed the market to stop the “moon shot” that was unfolding. If you remember gold had an intraday high of approximately $1,920 and silver was north $49 and both were brutally smashed on a Sunday evening for absolutely no reason. This, in my opinion, was the beginning of the end. EnMonday, January 8, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Silver Lags Gold Price But Comex Speculators Turn Net Bullish as Fed Member Cuts Dollar Rate Outlook |
| GOLD PRICES held onto last week's 1.4% gains in London trade Monday but silver slipped amid a rally in the Dollar on the forex market.
World equities pushed up to fresh all-time record highs as major government bond prices also rose, pushing interest rates lower.
European
banking stocks lagged the broader gain in equities, however, after Germany's Deutsche Bank said at the weekend iMonday, January 8, 2018 |
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| Michael Ballanger |
| Melt-up, Up, and Away |
| While the moniker for this missive is "Gold and Gold Miners," I just sit back in absolute AWE as the global equity investors (otherwise known as "Stock jockeys") have decided that "cash is TRASH!" and despite a massive "miss" in the employment numbers this morning, within seconds of the release, the spin doctors manning the equity trading desks deemed that number "bullish" because it is less inflationary and may cause the Fed to "pause." So dollar-yen rallies, the USD index has a minor pop, goldSunday, January 7, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Prices Set 16-Week Closing High vs. Jobs-Data Hit Dollar, GLD Shrinks |
| GOLD PRICES rose back above $1320 per ounce versus the falling Dollar in London's wholesale trade on Friday, heading for the highest weekly close in 16 after new data said the United States added far fewer jobs than analysts expected last month.
The official
non-farm payrolls estimate also put average annual wage growth in December at 2.5%, unchanged from November's pace when inflation was seen at 2.2%.
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