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So if someone says to you, "The dollar is about to collapse - buy gold!" Explain to them (especially if they are a retiree) that they are already short the dollar, so they have nothing to worry about. Using dollar to buy gold simply makes them doubly short the dollar, which is far more risky...

There is a guy on tv who says he is "long of gold in euros." I think he's talking about two positions; Long gold Long Euro So he started out: 1 dollar 0 euro 0 gold and then: 1 euro/dollar 1 gold But what's also missing from this picture? His liabilites, which are...

Why would he be in a bull call spread? Using calls as leverage and limiting the upside. This is a classic Dykstra strategy.

Not ERA, the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act).

The alternative to saving is consumption. So the real question is, why consumption over saving in 1980? Part of the answer is demographic, in 1980 the boomers were forming households. If you figure the average boomer was born in 1954, then he and she would be 26 in 1980 and forming households...

It's Japan's fault. The strong dollar in the early 1980s made consuming now more appealing than saving for later, and that explains the twin deficits, ie the trade and budget deficits. Essentially Japanese (and later Chinese) savers preferred to subsidize US consumption (via trade deficit) and...

http://www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=USO&ty=c&ta=0&p=m Quick question - looking at the chart above, was the real money made on a) five minute chart or b) longer?

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APAGF is a good trading stock for small accounts. Minuscule volume, but big and predictable moves within a range. http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=apagf

The trouble is that people lost money in the crash, got out or sold on the way up and now they can't bear to look at the new highs. Same reason CNBC ratings are in the dumps. It is called "Elite Trader" but most of the "traders" are operating $1000 forex accounts.

One thing that can be useful to watch to gauge longer term trend is Monday opens. If Monday opens lower than the previous close, then retail buying is subdued or even negative. You can see from the November lows that 9 of the 13 weeks had lower Monday opens, even though the SPY travelled about...

Chart looks interesting, but low volume, stock hasn't really moved anywhere is a couple years. In general you don't want to be on the wrong side of the gap. Interested to see how it turns out.

Historical COT data here, basically the commercials are still pretty short compared with historical levels [via breakpointtrades] http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$GOLD&p=W&yr=10&mn=0&dy=0&id=p81350222632&a=192012712&listNum=12 I don't want to get long before it breaks out, just pointing...

MBND http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=MBND&p=W&yr=1&mn=0&dy=0&id=p63078785447 Impending acquisition of MDTV, deal terms will change, stock will head higher.

http://www.dailyfx.com/technical_analysis/sentiment?technicalSentiment=XAUUSD Precious metals haven't really participated in this rally, even as they've tracked the stock market for the last few years. Right now the wrong-way retail traders are heavily buying gold, even as it's declining. You...

ET needs more honesty like that. You can make it back, just don't go on tilt.

It's up $6. Icahn is squeezing the shorts.

IB was doing you a favor . . . When I've got buyins in the past, it was usually a bad short.

Thanks Kore, you've broken the ET embargo on this thread.

ART bought out at $2.75. So it was good to $2.75, not $3. This is a good example of the difficulty of knowing when to sell. I sold 10% of my position on Tuesday and then the whole move was wiped out before today's buyout.