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Jan 28, 2011

 

1.    Bonds. Bonds. Bonds.  I scanned a huge number of writings from gold analysts+ yesterday.  Unfortunately, there seems to be a mass "everyone put your head in the sand now" approach to what is going on in gold. There seems to be almost a CONTEST to see how many analysts can talk about GOLD and NOT mention bonds.  All hands have reported to the rose coloured glasses deck upon bankster command.

2.   Theories range from "banks are bombing the market" (wrong, banks are buying and if they weren't price would likely be down $300 from $1430, not just the tiny $115 that it is).  Banks are buying, yes.  Are YOU buying?

3.   I am.  My lowest fill is about $1314.  My view is that most of those blabbing about how this sell-off is not serious are LIARS.  They are LIQUIDATING their personal holdings while LYING about it.

4.  Others are acting like gold is NOT falling.  Others promise it goes to the moon 20 seconds from now.  One thing they almost all have in common is:

5.   blissful ignorance of what the institutional money managers are doing and blissful ignorance of the real factors causing those institutional money flows.

6.   Hiding from reality isn't going to make you any profits in any currency or asset.  Nor are DEMANDS that gold rises immediately because of your personal positions being underwater against paper money. Nothing is right or wrong in the market.  Everything just IS.  Will you make a profit screaming that you were promised higher paper dollar currency measurements for your ounces of wealth money?

7.   Rallies in gold are going to be sold by institutions. The fact is that the fund managers who are trend followers see the general US stock market as RELATIVELY the best buy of any asset class, even now.  Here's why:

8.   By almost every relative valuation metric, stocks are near RECORD LOWS against BONDS.  Against commodities (and I've showed you the Dow to Gold chart that 99.9999% of the gold community somehow thinks MUST bottom at a 1-1 ratio...WRONG).  That chart shows a breakout upside, of the Dow against GOLD.

9.   Against the DOLLAR there is no question the Dow has run higher and is overbought in the SHORT TERM.  Don't assume the DOLLAR is going to outperform the DOW in the long term.

10.          Many of you have written in and are now using some of the inverse charts I've shown you, as you get a new understanding of the dollar as an asset and currency, and gold as an asset, currency, and money.

11.          When you talk about shorting the DOW, what you are actually saying is that the 30 MIGHTIEST companies in AMERICA are going to LOSE in a FIGHT with...are you ready for it?  OK, here we go, one more time just to be sure you really are ready:

12.          When you talk about shorting the DOW, what you are saying is that the 30 MIGHTIEST companies in AMERICA are going to LOSE in a FIGHT with aPHOTOCOPY MACHINE.  THAT thought.. is....MADNESS.

13.         Shorting the Dow is... Buying the dollar.  We all know that Elmer Fudd Public Investor is looking RIGHT NOW for the first time since he booked massive losses on his stock market positions in 2008-2009 at...booking another massive set of losses, this time on his paper money against the DOW.  When this idiot comes out of paper money and into the Dow, now, what he is doing is booking losses on his paper money.  Like I told you, all this idiot does is BOOK LOSSES.  Then he wonders why he's totally unhappy in the market.  He's unhappy by DEFINITION but he doesn't understand his situation at all.  Always think about what you are doing with the SELL side of any trade you make.  All trades have a sell side to them.  Are you booking profit, or booking a LOSS?

14.         By the way, most stocks actually bottomed in Oct 2008, but the major averages took until March 2009.  Gold also bottomed in Oct 2008, and you'll sometimes see me make a typo speaking of the stk mkt lows of 2008.  That's not really a typo.  Stocks in general really did bottom in Oct 2008, on the day when the financial system almost closed.  On the day Fudd pretends never existed.  That day is another skeleton he has locked in his market closet, one that is overloaded with so many skeletons the door threatens to blow off the hinges.

15.         What I want you to do, is stay focused on reality and professionalism, not on golden pipedreams and I want you to stay out of the panic enveloping Fudd in the gold market.  I keep urging all of you to exhibit PATIENCE.  You don't have to be an AGGRESSIVE buyer of the various PAIN ZONES that manifest themselves from time to time in the major markets but...

16.         YOU DO HAVE TO BE A BUYER

17.         The fact is that the gold holdings of the SPDR gold trust are at 8 month lows.  (I just covered off the last of my current crop of short positions yesterday there, as I LOVE shorting GLD-nyse, which has a high probability of being questionable at best, and a total fraud at worst)

18.         Thanks for Steamin' Lehman's reminder that the phrase "markets can fall down longer than you can stay solvent" is actually "markets can fall down longer than you can stay solvent or SANE". 

19.         Remember that 99% of institutional land failed to see the crisis coming.  They think rates will rise but not skyrocket.  I think the controlled fall of the bond market will go out of control, by design, but I have no idea when that happens.

20.         Agricultural commodities tend to top out 4-5 months AFTER gold does.  We're at about the 4 month mark from the Oct period where gold bogged down. Gold LEADS other commodities.  It's hard to know how institutional money managers would view an intermediate decline in food prices. 

21.         Would they think that rates don't need to be raised so much?  Hard to know, but remember that Ben Bernanke believes higher ASSET prices and a lower DOLLAR is the key to creating economic growth.  If people are RICHER, or at least FEEL RICHER, they will SPEND.   The cornerstone of his plan is higher stock market prices.  That puts on a theoretical limit on how much gold and commodities are likely to fall.

22.         The Gman's sicko theory is that if people spend more, he gets more taxes, so he can steal more and manage his debt payments.  I'm not so sure that is a solution as much as it is crisis-extension and robbery.  One thing for SURE is that photocopied money used to print asset prices higher is not wealth building.

23.         The Dow was about 12,000 at the 1999 peak.  It is about 12,000 now.  The purchasing power of the Dollar has been mangled by oil, food, medicine.  The Dow is back to breakeven against the dollar, but people are not at breakeven in wealth who have held the Dow.  They are vastly poorer.

24.         QE has happened before.  After world war 2 the greatest bond bear market in history occurred. Investors booked LOSSES every year for DECADES on bonds, rolling them over for the higher rate bonds each year, and getting a tax loss.  The history of the ending, or attempted ending, or pretend ending, of QE has historically been accompanied by a SIGNIFICANT correction in the stock market against the dollar.

25.         It is hard to know how GOLD would act if the stock market began a major correction.  I wouldn't be too fast to GUESS on that.   A Dow correction of size is a dollar rally of size against the Dow.    

26.         The fact that the Dow has NOT corrected leaves the door open as to whether QE is really ending. Maybe the institutions have it all wrong.  I don't think they have it all wrong, but I think that few in the gold community understand the huge opportunity at hand to book massive profits on USD paper currency in gold money that is here right now...won't be here forever. 

27.         Don't guess about how much MORE you'll make on US dollars by selling NONE now.  Sell dollars for gold in your PGENS.  I'm here in Miami for another day.  I listened to the man voted fund manager of the decade yesterday say that VOLATILITY will be a growing theme of 2011 (I called it THE theme).  He also stated that "I DON'T KNOW" is going to be the correct answer issued by the best analysts in 2011 in regards to where markets are going in a lot of cases.

28.         The worst traders are trying ever-harder to predict market DIRECTION.  I told you that my prediction for the markets in 2011 was that I would be wrong much more often, and the key to profiting would be understanding that reality.  With my accounts at new highs this week while my prediction that gold takes out $1430 before $1315 was just proven WRONG, I think I've done a good job. 

29.         For the funds I manage, huge buy programs are in place on gold that extend hundreds of dollars below current prices.  I have no idea if we go there.  A monster rally for gold will come.  But from what price launching pad?  Will it be HERE?

30.         It could be.  So you HAVE to have bought SOME gold items into HERE.  What if it bottoms at some point between $1250-1300?  Well, THAT is possible too.  Because the market is so out of control right now, all is possible.  So you need buy orders down to the $1250 level.

31.         Here's a look at the uptrend line GOLD that is IN PLAY in the minds of major trend followers.  We don't want to be guessing about whether price comes down to this trendline, nor what happens to PRICE if it broke it.

32.         Just as you look at a monthly chart before a daily, you want to think about what gold IS before you think about where it is going against other assets in relative valuation.  Gold is WEALTH and you want MORE WEALTH.

33.         It's a REAL and ongoing battle to fight the paper money wealth valuation VAMPIRE.  The banksters are laughing as theY watch one pathetic Fudd and Fundster after another discuss the loss of wealth on their gold, because paper money has rallied against gold.  No fudd mentions he has a profit on paper money.  There is no loss of wealth, just a rally in the paper money asset, but almost nobody understands, and they CLING to the paper money asset like mommy's good little price chasing BABY, instead of booking profit on it. 

34.         The banksters want everyone in a continuous mindset of losing and loss booking and price chasing. Paper money is surging against assets like gold stocks.  Book profit on paper money.  Celebrate your WIN.  If you don't have any paper money because you went all in on gold, well, leave the paper money alone.  Don't chase it and certainly don't throw one asset in the garbage at a loss to chase another one that is being LIQUIDATED by the BANKSTERS.  Don't buy what the banksters are selling, or you won't like what happens to you.  The banksters are selling DOLLARS and buying GOLD.   Join them.  Join the market WINNERS, both in mind and action.

 

Grid time.  My next profit booking point on dollars comes in just above gold $1300.  Will I get those profits?  My next profit booking point on gold bullion comes at $1322.  Which profit booking cash register will ring first, dollars or ounces?  I don't have the answer, but I know one of them is going to ring very very soon, keeping the KACHINGO and WINNING vibe in play.  Go into the week-end as a profit booking winner!  Let's cheer for BOTH $1322 or $1302.  Both are profit booking points, one for dollars, one for gold.   A final question....Do you really want... LESS GOLD?  Don't wait till it costs $700 million to buy 50,000 ounces of gold to be defined as RICH.  Work on your next ounce of wealth TODAY.   

   Thanks!

    Cheers!

     st

 

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