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what exactly happens on a buy side algo desk, how is this different from the classic index arb program trading ... do they mean correlation driven cross-mkt arb strategies ... mathy high freq intraday directional stuff ... what precisely IS algorithmic trading the timing is kind of funny as...

exactly. i think that's really all there is to it. we're all sitting on a mountain of claims against the assets and future income of the US economy

nm, it's late and i forgot your following post about china bringing stability to world mkts. predicting the future is tenuous at best, i just have a hard time envisioning an orderly touchdown for dollar demand as china demands better reserves. i think any central bank move into gold is going...

can you clarify your position? as i pointed out, deflation has been historically good for gold and the weight of open spec interest is dwarfed by institutionalized gold lending. the only other things you expressed were your sense of fair value and a preference for china and silver. none of...

a further thought on the subject.. this is very far from the reality of the situation. almost all of the central banks and bullion banks in the world are trapped in short gold carry trades so magnificent in size that generally all reported central bank reserves around the world are...

what if you could only purchase the shares of that company with other shares of that company? current shares priced in future shares. why trade against the force of infinite share creation?

would you purchase shares of stock issued by a company that could float secret and increasing amounts into perpetuity?

fascinating to see how a dollar can travel so rapidly do we short the dollar every time we spend one? what can i infer from the fact that most ordinary people don't save dollars today

Just want to have a discussion about what a US Dollar actually is. All thoughts welcome

I'm just beginning to discover the level of false economic reporting done in the last few years by the FED. John Williams at shadowstats is pretty interesting and covers various devices, geometric weighting in the CPI, hedonic adjustments, etc http://www.gillespieresearch.com/cgi-bin/bgn/...

it sounds like you envision an orderly transition from the us dollar to the chinese yuan as world reserve money. i'll take the other side of that

the reinflationary and deflationary risks to the us economy both threaten confidence in paper currency the only major deflationary slump in modern history as far as i know (japan 1996) sent the price of gold much higher

i respect that very much and sorry for being needlessly aggressive. congrats on a really good sounding trade allowing my mind to wander, i'm imagining the artificial price depression of gold slowly begins to unwind and gold begins to catch up with industrial metals as well as platinum...

it was just your references to your day job and blowouts that gave the repetitious bragging a distressed tone. not even sure why i'm posting about it. a good person to study imo would be the dude who made 400k on his trade without a repeated need to be acknowledged for it. but obviously...

it's getting sort of annoying to hear you repeat this in every gold thread considering you're a hobbyist with a day job.. esp if ur talking about a grand or two of gold profits or more likely a few hundred bucks. unless you made heavy bank, then by all means commense patting urself on the back...

why not just follow the trend?

thanks for posting those, yes you're totally right. in the end it was a mistake at tradestation incorrectly rolling the contract forward mid-day. same type of issue happened last week with @QM. what i'm learning as i start trading commodities is to do more homework on expirations and not...

@ZG in ts is still stuck and I notice @YG did it too. odd that it happened where and when it did. did anyone on other charting platforms experience this spike in april ZG

sorry if this is a stupid question with an obvious answer. did anyone just notice ZG spike up to 564.30, get stuck on the charts, and continue trading from the pre-spike level of ~559?

did anyone noticed the slogan at the end of the whole thing "invest wisely, spend on yourself"