bigbadbears you're a funny man: very proud, very narcissic and very blind and naive on your neocons economic system.
now that russia is out of the picture
(until that quote i was trying to take you seriously, honestly but this gem made me laugh too hard)
i want to see your face and your explanation on where the $ is going after russia & china stop using it to sell their oil or decide to dump their bonds (less likely but we never know)
to summarize, what do you risk going long on gold ?
slow loss, that can be recovered from time to time thanks to volatility (tahnks central banks to manipulate the rates more than often) and strong suppport (what just happened last week ?)
what could you win in the highly likely event of a petro-$ collapse ? might be no limit there, the limit will be to exit before the $ is officially anounced dead (and have margin account not in usd obviously)
risking tremendous loss to make very little profit that is a really great strategy of your badbear (and i do want to see your face after it happens, whether tomorrow whether in 2 years)