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here is an idea for you buy only one mini YI contract and hedge with the sale of say 25-50 shares of SLV while you ease into the idea of trading such a volatile instrument or or even consider selling a silver mining stock that tracks the price of silver like SLW or instead of silver...

5 % upside this week for me :cool:

no position ... would have gotten wiped if I was short and long in this name in any size must have been a rumor or something up over a buck and then down again :confused:

does the NYMEX have the right to change the rules as per buying or selling of their products ? ( or does this require approval of the CFTC ) ?

agreed ... sometimes the full size contracts ( ZG + ZI follow the mini's YG + YI ) but they did not this am

how come this only happened to the mini contracts? in gold and in more than one month ? ( i.e. june , august , dec ) I heard the NYSE euronext is going to take the ECBOT contracts from the CME group hopefully when they do their programmers will be able to monitor and prevent these...

are there odds in vegas on this texas death match ? ET posters picking crude oil tops vs T. Boone and Goldman ? :D

back in the groove to the tune of 5 % upside for me this week :cool:

weekend update on my totals for last week ended up losing $400 or 1/3 of one percent on my acct I know this is good thing that I have been able to basically give away more money to various people and organizations than mr market in 2008 and I will try to remain humble and giving (...

evening update well indeed my streak of consecutive winning weeks since the start of 2008 has ended. being my loss for the week was only a few hundred $$$ total ... and the loss was less than 1 % it was not so bad I decided once again to take some money off the table and reduced my...

my winning streak might be coming to an end for the week I am down $600 I will attempt to lower this number and make sure it does not hit triple digits later on in the day if I even end up the week one measly cent positive it will count as a moral victory for me and keep my...

surf ... that was a nice call one might with hindsight caught a $100 move or so however it does not take a genius to see that the gold market stopped ( for the moment ? ) its recent -freefall- at what higher ( $900 - $950 - $1000 ) price level ( yes perhaps talk of $950 and...

5 1/2 % this week to the upside :cool:

guess I will take a look at everything after the US reset as this info is wrong in an acct I have with them -No equity information exists at this time - -No Positions Exist at This Time - glad I am mostly hedged :(

maybe they are bored or maybe they want to make their counterparty take a hit to their P+L I for one am suggesting they stop the pm baloney as it only makes people not want to trade with them have a good night mr market maker hedge fund blah blah blah I will see you in the am in the pm...

gold and silver are in the plus column tonight in Asian trade some small time resistance levels have been taken out so far in the spot market I see $863.20 as the high with GLD the ETF proxy having a theoretical value of $65.14 with June Futures approx $864 last

I can only tell you tonight there is no liquidity in "screen" GC and ZG full size comex options have not looked at them during the day in a while so either myself or someone else will post here what we see some brokers still alllow "pit entered" ( floor ) options trades and perhaps...

I for one almost quit trading on more than one occasion and was even told by a trader friend to take a "stop loss" and get on with my life somehow I pulled it together again and this yr is my best yr yet and I have not had a losing week in 08 unfortunately outside of financial...

-there is really limited understanding here concerning the real prime movers and xxxxx 600 by 4.1.2009 at latest.- Surf making a call like that is like saying the dow will be at 17500 by end of 2009 or that oil will be at 80 by 6.30.09 if it is right you look like a genius but nobody...

I still think however in order for this to play out ( $800 and below ) crude oil has to go back to say $90 and the Euro drops to say 1.45 per USD a tough task indeed for the gold bears lies ahead