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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.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'shorting us treasuries'
More Gold Hysteria; The Dollar's Latest Eulogy; The Easiest (Worst) Short Idea on the Planet?
Gold Featured on...Saturday Night Live!?The latest sign that the gold market may be a little overheated right now...Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update featured investment analysis from Scrooge McDuck!http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/cli...
Detailed Review of Foreign Investment in US (Hint: It's Crashing)
In the inflation/deflation debate, there's certainly no shortage of moving parts factoring into the outcome. Thus, I have to admit that although I've been leaning towards the deflation side of late, at the end of the day I don't have a clue (nor doe...
Bud Conrad Likes the Short Play on Interest Rates
Here's a short clip of Bud Conrad, Casey Research's Chief Economist, on CNBC last Thursday. Bud has been pounding the table for investors to buy gold (since much lower prices) and short long bonds for some time.The buy gold trade has been a good one...
Turn Back the Clock...It's Another "Flight to Safety" Day
Mama said there'd be days like these...though you may have thought they were a thing of the past.With the DOW dropping 200 points on the day, and commodities down across the board, the "flight to safety" positions stood tall, just as they did during ...
How to Time the Treasury Market
Surprisingly, Treasuries have been rallying in the middle of each month, while falling at the beginning and end of the month, according to some keen observations by Tom Dyson.Why so? Tom says that for some reason, the market does not seem to be acco...
Demand for US Treasuries Poor in Latest Auction
Yesterday, yields on 30-year US Treasuries skyrocketed on poor demand in the latest bond auction. Â Yields jumped from 4.1% to 4.3%.Tough to imagine why demand would have been so lackluster - maybe it's the fact that the US government will never be a...
Marc Faber: We've Begun a 15-20 Year Bear Market in Bonds
Here's Dr. Doom himself, Marc Faber, giving one of his usual insightful and thought provoking interviews for Bloomberg.What really caught my ear was around the 4:30 mark, he proclaimed the bull market in long dated bonds to have ended as of December ...
