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i've just sent my first test trade thru a retail pit broker (non IB), attempting to raise the bid on a contract using the access system after hours. through two platforms, i can see that my improved bid never showed up in access. are all retail pit brokers created equal in terms of letting...

lol it's annoying to watch what a laggard silver is lately measured against copper, platinum, zinc, tie, etc

interesting. was wondering whats holding silver back here

yeah, which retail banks will conduct a wire over the phone without a visit? because of mkt hours i found myself in a similar situation recently funding a new account by check that took extremely long.

interesting, so the composite data going that far back contains some concatenation of data from different systems there's some sort of obvious adjustment i'm missing, the price difference has pit and composite markets trading in entirely different ranges at the same time

am i missing something, isn't $1 above spot silver a ~7% transaction fee. $10 prem on a kruggerand sounds reasonable. the more i look into this stuff, the more futs delivery looks like an outstanding deal, but that renders the minimum unit ~22k which isn't that big, but would be kind of...

i completely forgot to include ebay fees in that, thx for pointing that out. what's the best way to pick up spot metal without paying more than .5-1% comm, is that even possible aside from futures delivery or staggering quantity at retail?

it's kind of fascinating, i see lots of auctions where people are bidding well above the spot prices for bullion that has no numismatic value so far above, they're even topping the legit dealers' incredibly wide spreads + vol premiums for anyone in the mood to sell metal, ebay seems like a...

in my experience, fast fills and honorable quotes are not one bit better on nyse than on amex for the ishares.

gold

here are graphical examples

this fellah was telling me about a game he played as a kid called 'every other' where you either kiss or pee on every other bum you pass on an nyc street. i'm betting eqt is a true peon. am i right eqt? how does it feel to be a piece of human spam are you sure 'bwahaha' is an adequate...

why are the price history of comex pit and composite symbols significantly different? for example, platinum via tradestation, @PL.P peaked in March 1980 at 1264.25. @PL.C peaked at 1045.00 My general understanding is that the pit symbols reflect only pit executions, and the composite...

ppl change nicks every so often too

lol. if you think ur rubbing something in you're not. i'm playing reinflation too have fun trading in cash for monetized stock at the same value.

price the stock market in foreign currency or precious metals. no matter how much it goes up with you on board, you are still losing wealth. (assuming no leverage) it could go to a billion and you would still be losing as long as it's a result of a dollar deval

usd is weakening against other currencies

it looks to me like the US government is trying to turn the dollar into something you can only spend, not save. ask russians, they know all about it, don't believe in money or savings started making initial calls to find out how a bullion purchase would work today, and interestingly, the...

if you chart the ratio sprd of say GLD to ZG, you can see that prem has been steadily increasing, in a very linear fashion over a year either an inducement to get ppl out of the futures and into the etfs, or their costs of carry i guess are increasing with price and popularity

maybe they can wrap it in a decent system, and start neighborhood hedge pools