Commodity Futures Review – January 4, 2009

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Now for the weekly review of our commodity futures positions – current as of January 4, 2009. First, our top blog posts from the past week: Expert Commodity Picks for 2009: Jim Rogers and Marc Faber GoldMoney Review: Gold Climbs for 8th Straight Year Jim Rogers on Kudlow: We’re going to have an inflationary nightmare […]

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Top posts from the past week: Lean Hog Prices Poised to Climb in 2009 Why eBay is the Best Indicator of Gold’s Fair Value Our coverage of Marc Faber’s recent interview on CNBC from December 1st continues to see a lot of traffic. A review of our trades and positions from the previous week: Continued […]

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We’ve discussed before how the paper market for gold can easily be manipulated – including recently that three US banks allegedly account for the majority of all net short positioning on the COMEX. In the following article, the editors of Big Gold, a Casey Research publication, discuss how gold prices on eBay are the best […]

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Top posts from the past week: Inflation or Deflation – Which Will Prevail? Fed Out of Ammo; Dollar is Toast Stratfor: Oil Prices Likely to Remain Low Our coverage of Marc Faber’s recent interview on CNBC from December 1st continues to see a lot of traffic. A review of our trades from the previous week: […]

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Bud Conrad, Chief Economist at Casey Research, voices his opinion on Gold, the Fed using borrowed money from the Treasury, and Oil as a limited resource. “There’s not enough gold for everybody.” http://www.bizradio.org/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/december/wss-dec11c.mp3 http://www.bizradio.org/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/december/wss-dec11d.mp3

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Gene Arensberg at Resource Investor writes that three US banks currently account for 66.97% of all the commercial net short positioning on the COMEX for gold futures. He goes on to mention that the market manipulation is even more egregious for paper silver, as only 2 US banks hold a “sickening” 98.64% of all short […]

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Kevin Kerr discusses the current resource situation with BNN Likes gold and silver (has $1200 price target for gold, may hit this year he believes) Thinks oil will trade between $85 and $105 for a bit, before continuing its rise Current correction in base metals and grains is a good thing for traders looking to […]

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Up until this Fannie/Freddie bailout fiasco, I was still a bit on the fence about gold and the dollar – thought that gold should continue to go up, dollar should continue to go down – but hated essentially selling the US short. And I kept rechecking my assumptions, trying to think of ways the US […]

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