Posts Tagged ‘Finances’
- Dollar-Neutral Gold Gold has enjoyed a relentless and rather one-sided rally since late July. Up 18.9% at best over an 11-week span where nearly 2/3rds of the trading days enjoyed gains, some traders are wondering if this metal is getting overbought. Tuesday's sharp 2.9% retreat certainly amplified these fears. But interestingly, due to dollar distortion this recent gold rally isn't as strong as it appears.
- International Liquidity and Inflation One of the most serious threats posed by a global central bank and world fiat currency is the fact that it would allow the emerging planetary regime to print its own money and finance its activities independently. That means wealth could be secretly siphoned away from all of humanity to pay for armies, tax collectors, courts, bureaucracies, law enforcement, wealth redistribution, propaganda, and much more. With no limits. But to advocates of such a system, that is one of its primary benefits...
- Are Gold & SP500 Topping Out Here? Prices continue to churn as traders and investors try to figure if they want their hard earned dollar in cash or investments. The market is very jittery simply because no one wants to get caught on the wrong side of the market if it makes another 30-40% move, which is why we are seeing money rotate in and out each with very little commitment and follow through. Until a major trend looks to be in place most investors will not me holding many positions over night or through the weekend.
- Learning How Delta Creates Profits When Trading Gold Last week's articles focused specifically on the option Greek Theta. This week we will shift gears and adjust our focus on Delta, another fundamental tenet of option trading. The official definition of Delta as provided by Wikipedia is as follows:
- How’s Gold? The relative trickle of investment funds moving into Gold today will very shortly become a torrent, completely outrunning available Gold supplies and sending prices through the roof.
- Gold The recent pullback offered a nice entry around the $133/share on GLD. In full disclosure, I purchased GLD around 133.25 and sold a slew of naked puts on silver and gold which I have closed for solid gains. Argument surrounds gold and silver as economists bicker over whether we are going to see hyperinflation or deflation in 2011. I for one do not know or claim to know. What I do know is that gold appears to be nearing a final wave of buying which could push it to all time highs.
- “Only It Didn’t” The powers that be are now starting to be shown what should be a very important lesson in the old saying: "You can fool all of the people some of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time". For a year and a half now, starting at a rather well defined point in time during early March 2009, the govermedia switched gears and pronounced that the shattered American economy was in recovery.
- What will the Fed do if the economy goes into recession again? These guys have already done just about everything they can ... pulled every trick out of their hats ... and bailed out and backstopped virtually the entire financial system! But, all of that free money did was help boost another bubble in ASSET prices. It hasn't done a heck of a lot for the "real" economy. Unemployment remains stubbornly high and getting worse. Housing continues to slump. Investment is anemic and overall confidence is lacking. To put it mildly, the Fed is just pushing on a string - and more pushing isn't going to do a darn bit of good for those living in the real world!