If one offered investors a fat tail put option that never decays or expires, costs about -1% pa to carry, has no counter party risk & no chance of ever becoming worthless, there would be a line out the door. But when one explains that this option is physical gold… no interest. – JSMineset
For a decade our stock market has gone up and up. All corrections were short-lived and a move to higher levels was always in the cards. In contrast, gold/silver have retreated from their 2011 all-time highs for 7 plus years … either retreating, going sideways, or failing to recover to any meaningful areas and holding them. In general exiting positions in our stock market to enter the precious metals arena has not paid off … with a few exceptions, of course. The point is that should our stock market go into an extended bear market, it is likely to send a wave of investors from the US into the dormant precious metals.
It is not Einstein insight. Should our stock market correct sharply and in a sustained manner, unlike these past many years, it will put a great deal of pressure on the Fed to rethink their interest rate posture. Should they backtrack, especially under pressure from President Trump, the dollar is likely to take a big hit, which will create a hefty tailwind for the precious metals prices. – Bill Murphy
David’s Commentary:
I’ve been around the block a few times. At my age, I have been through the cycles two or three times. It is a fact that history repeats itself, more or less, but checking on stories at Zero Hedge several times a day and reading the newspaper and tuning in on the TV I feel as though it’s been at least 10 years since things were this ominous.
Here are just a few of the headlines On Zero Hedge today: 2020 Presidential Election Will Be The Most Violent In American History; Why Is Every Asset Down in 2018; Nasdaq Plunges Into Red For 2018 – Worst Year In A Decade; Bear Markets Everywhere.` Over Half The World Is Now Down 20% Or More; Chinese Military Official – We Should Attack US Navy Vessels That Violate Chinese Waters; World Markets “In World Of Pain” As Nothing Can Stop Relentless Stock Selling; How To Avoid A New Are In Europe; Russian Stealth Jets To Be Armed With New Hypersonic Missiles; EU ARMY? France Riot Control Vehicles Bearing EU Flag Stoke Fear, Confusion; Japan GDP Tumbles After Biggest CapEx Collapse Since Financial Crisis…. That’s just from one day and it’s that way every day.
Ed Steer’s featured articles today included the following headlines: Dow 10,000 (Bill Bonner); U.S. Consumer Credit Hits All Time High as Credit Card Usage Soars; Credit “Death Spiral” Accelerates as Loan ETF Sees Record Outflow, Primary Market Freezes; Macron’s Defeat in Paris Sounds Alarm for Europe.
I can only imagine what “Ranting Andy Hoffman” would be writing on these pages in his “Horrible Headlines.” I’ve just highlighted a few.
There is an old adage: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” President Trump and Wall Street keep telling us things are great and good times lie ahead. My pessimistic nature tells me, “I don’t think so.”
There is another trend that has been gaining strength in the last couple of years. My head is spinning from all of the offers to get rich I receive in my Email box every day. Every day I receive several recommendations of a stock to buy or a financial strategy that will make me rich. Twenty years ago, I used to try some of the strategies and recommendations.
After losing money on most of them, I no longer pay any attention to any of the recommendations. Sure, one or two may be a worthwhile tips, but most won’t and there is no way to separate the bad advice from the good. Even my daughter told me that she is not buying any stocks now (she is a traditional investor with a financial advisor managing her assets). I suggested that she use a stop-loss strategy on all of her stocks now. I hope she takes my advice.
I want to warn all of our readers that it’s risky to place orders on the Internet.
We don’t take orders from the Internet. Sure, it’s convenient to be able to buy your metals that way, but…. Today we were informed that one of the industries well-known firms, a firm that doesn’t have brokers and does all their business over the Internet, sent out an alert to all of their clients, warning them that they have been hacked. As they pointed out, “nearly all companies in America and around the world are under constant cyberattack and security incidents occur all too often.” They were hacked by a foreign-based entity who demanded an extortion payment, or they would release certain customer information obtained from their system. They determined that their clients name, email address, location and encrypted password were all compromised. Additionally, they learned that the attacker has emailed some customers with attempts to extort them directly through false threats to “wipe out your balance”. The best-case scenario here is that no harm will come to their clients, but they will have to change passwords and closely monitor their accounts. Since we are not on the Internet, we are not vulnerable to this kind of hacking.
How about some uplifting news? Of course, this is just one man’s opinion (guess), I’ll take it.
E.B. Tucker Director, Metalla Royalty & Streaming
2019 will see the start of a new bull cycle for gold and push the metal up to $1,500 an ounce, said E.B. Tucker, director of Metalla Royalty & Streaming.
“To make big money in this market, you have to see the cycles. Nothing changes. We’ve had three big cycles in gold since 2000 and we’re about to have another one,” Tucker told Kitco News.
Tucker said that the next cycle peak could reach $1,900 an ounce, but that won’t happen next year.
JPMorgan is at it again. Their greed has no limits.
BANK OF FRANCE AND JP MORGAN START GOLD MANIPULATIONTRADING
Macron is now also trying to edge in on the gold trading market for France. This has been the prerogative of London since 1750, but now JP Morgan (who else) has joined up with Banque de France to offer gold swaps, leases and gold deposits for central banks. Obviously, the purpose is to attack the UK further in relation to Brexit. If they succeed, there will be yet another country that will manipulate the gold market with Morgan’s help. So, more paper gold and more manipulation of the gold market until the whole artificial gold edifice collapses whilst the physical remains as the only money which has ever survived.
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”!
(The more things change, the more they stay the same.) -Egon von Greyerz
The 200-day moving average for gold sits at 1260.93. Keep an eye on that number. It changes daily, but it is a slow-moving average.
Proven Probable
