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I am tracking and blogging about my commodities trading account. I began the account with $2K, and my goal is to turn that into $1,000,000. I track every trade in the blog, share reasoning behind each trade and position, and update the positions weekly.
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UK Department Store to Sell Gold Bars "Over the Counter" - Oh My
This gold bull market is starting to get a little overheated...The Telegraph reports that famed UK luxury department store Harrods, starting today, will be able to purchase the "ultimate luxury accessory" - gold bars.Chris Hall, head of Harrods Gold ...
Dennis Gartman on Gold, Nat Gas, Currencies, and More!
Great Dennis Gartman interview over on The Globe Investor. Here are a couple of quick hits, and you can find the full interview here.Gartman's thoughts on:Gold: Someone or something is leaning on gold at $980-$1000 and I’ll let that seller be sate...
Why Silver and Gold "In the Ground" is Tremendously Undervalued Right Now
Regular readers are often looking for ways to play gold and silver...after all, we figure with this historic printing of money, we've at least got a real shot at wild inflation.The safest way to play gold and silver is to buy the bullion itself. If ...
Why Trend Following is Your Only Hope for Investment Survival
Buy and hold. Stocks for the long run. Diversify. These investment mantras were gospel during the great bull market of the 80s and 90s.Drinking this Kool-Aid will get you slaughtered today.There is no freaking way I would "buy and hold" anything ri...
Signs of Gold Approaching the "Mania" Stage
Investment manias share some key traits in common. When they get going, they REALLY get going (a la NASDAQ 1999). People believe that "this time it's different" (housing bubble anyone?). And - they are certainly equal opportunity. From tulips, to...
How Do Gold Stocks Perform in Deflationary Depressions?
Let's take a stroll down Great Depression memory lane to find out what would happen if, in fact, we do slip into a deflationary depression. Would our gold stocks get trashed? It's important to consider all the possible scenarios that could unfold.....
Richard Russell: We're Nearing Gold's Mania Phase
Legendary investor and investment writer Richard Russell believes we're nearing the speculative, or mania, phase in gold:Every major primary bull market that I have studied or lived through ends up with a wildly speculative third phase. This is the...
How to Buy Physical Gold
How can you buy physical gold? It's a question that's coming up more and more these days...as demand for gold bullion is going through the roof.Jeff Clark points out a few resources that you should take a look at, if you're looking to purchase some...
Gold Dispensing ATM's: Coming Soon (Seriously)
From Reuters:A German asset management company plans to set up 500 "Gold-to-Go" ATMs in Germany, Switzerland and Austria this year. A gold-dispensing automatic teller machine (ATM) was on display at Frankfurt's main railway station for a one-day mark...
What is the Breakout in Gold Stocks Signaling?
Our buddy Brian Hunt pointed out in yesterday's DailyWealth that gold stocks are breaking out. GDX, the ETF for gold stocks, has more than doubled off it's late October lows, and is not perched at its high water mark since August 2008.Gold stocks ar...
How to Time the Gold Market
I've learned - the hard way - that the best way to time the gold market - is not to time it at all. Remember last summer after the government bailed out Fannie/Freddie, and it looked like a sure bet that gold was heading to the moon? Well that di...
Jim Rogers: IMF Sales May Drive Gold Below $700
Jim Rogers says that IMF sales of gold could drive the price of the barbarous relic below $700/ounce.Rogers told Bloomberg: ”The fact is that IMF is trying to get permission from everybody to sell gold. I don’t know it will succeed or not. But if...
China Admits It's Been Secretly Stockpiling Gold
On Friday, China admitted to something it's long been suspected of - secretly stockpiling gold. Of the countries that disclose their gold holdings, China is now ranked fifth in the world, ahead of the Swiss, the former beacon of a solid currency.Sin...
