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Did you experience a slight case of déjà vu today seeing the price soften as the London bullion banking community
newly returns from its long-weekend holiday? More to the point, a MTM-minded
person can ignore today's trading shenanigans because, more importantly,
gold's price remained neatly elevated right through the key year-end
revaluation period...
Friday, July 2, 2010... Timing Is Everything:
I'm sure you've all heard it said (usually by puffed-up market players, or especially in old movies featuring that sort
of character) "My boy, timing isn't everything... it's the ONLY
thing!"
To be sure, timing ISN'T everything, and it most certainly isn't the ONLY
thing... but one thing about timing bears saying right here, right now....
Did you notice how gold's little slide yesterday occurred... (hmmmmm... how shall I put this
for proper emphasis...) YESTERDAY!!?
I don't mean to say did you notice HOW it occurred, or even so much to
emphasize THAT it occurred at all (that's a small matter), but rather, that
such an event happened YESTERDAY!
And more precisely to the point, it isn't even so very notable that it
happened yesterday (or today, or next week, or even at all) because the very
significant fact is that it did NOT happen PRIOR to yesterday!!
"Yesterday", of course, being July 1st, the day AFTER June 30th, a
very "special" day in the lives of many young central bankers
across the world, when love is in the air and their thoughts turn to
unwrapping the presents delivered to them (monthly for some, quarterly for
others) on the shoulders of the resolute MTM Giants. After the
"snapshots" are taken, who really gives a hoot what happens the day
after?
And of course, such volatility quickly shakes loose those outsiders of least
conviction, and then the price again moves upward as the giants come around
again, picking up crumbs dropped by weak hands, bearing their load, bringing
the gift of value...
FOA
(06/12/00; 19:48:25MT - usagold.com msg#26)
Put your cards on the table!
The current paper gold world will die (burn) as its value to users erodes,
not increases! We have to remember that some 85% (or more) of the long side
of our world paper markets will not (perhaps cannot) take delivery of
physical gold. If the paper trading price is driven ever lower from new
derivative supply, these longs simply "trade out" and take their
cash hit. The major banks and players in this arena know this and therefore
are not at risk from expanding their positions. Truly, they are only playing
behind the real political game today.
Indeed, if the Euro function will ultimately burn the dollar and its paper
gold markets and replace it with a physical "free gold" market,
then selling paper gold is free money! Right? This is but one segment of the
coming currency transition and to date it's progressing right along!
Again, most everyone in the Western Gold bug game is running with the ball in
the wrong direction. They are trying to understand just how the Euro zone
players are going to get out of our current gold market liabilities when the
Euro makes use of the dollar gold market! These same thinkers are looking for
some kind of "work out" of our system so its price discovery
function will value gold where it should be! My observation from the
"Euro Makers" is that one should "forget this notion!"
"Nobody" gives a hoot about holding "price discovery"
paper contracts as the real thing. Except for those with the real power to
trade something for full payment! OIL!
Today, paper gold derivatives are for selling because they will eventually be
politically defaulted once their discount to physical drives their value next
to nothing.
So who is in danger of being hurt as this unfolds?
That's right, the Western paper gold long! I'm not talking about just the US
market! This is about the entire world gold market as we know it today. The
real play will be for the ones that get out in front of the move by owning
physical.
This stampede out of "paper physical" by the "big boys"
will first discount that medium as all the selling comes to play. Then the
real buying of physical will ensue. It seems every Gold bug sees only half
the trade and has great faith that contract law will favor a short squeeze. Yet,
none of them see where it is the long that will be dumping and forcing the
discount!
So what did you think of the gold "take down" yesterday? Did
July 1st mean anything to you?
Well, if I were a Central Banker who marked my reserve assets to
market price (MTM<--MUST
READ) like all Central Bankers should...
Then perhaps my quarterly performance "kudos" might reflect my
performance. Yes? And then, once the "snapshot" is recorded in the
books, it is good for what, another three months?
Ladies and gentlemen, think this through carefully. Because if any of this
rings true, then one conclusion we can draw from yesterday's "price
action" is that Freegold can't be very far
away.
What if yesterday's "dip" was not the result of a coordinated
pounding, but from the abrupt and unexpected absence of certain
"giant" "longs"?
Why did paper gold hold its own all through June -- at or near its ALL TIME
NOMINAL HIGH -- only to drop off a small cliff on July 1st as if one of its
main support pillars called in sick for the day?
Were the "commercials" REALLY just waiting to turn the calendar
page before pounding the snot out of gold? Or were certain "giant"
LONGS propping up PAPER GOLD to book important numbers... on an
important day? And if so, what does this imply about the real PHYSICAL
prospects for the paper gold market going forward?
As long as the "paper gold" price is imputed widely to all pieces
of real physical gold held tightly in vaults, it is fairly important to
certain... how shall I say... published reports? Yes?
The timing of yesterday's "attack" on gold is most auspicious for physical
gold. Notice I didn't say suspicious, but auspicious!
What do you think about yesterday's gold action? Please tell me in the
comments below.
Sincerely,
FOFOA
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