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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 the darkest days of the Great Deleveraging of 2008. Yes, […]
Sean Hyman from World Currency Watch says watch out, the Bank of Japan is not one to be reckoned with. They are ready to intervene to stop the Yen’s rise – and you don’t want to test them. And our pal and trusted currency advisor, Chuck Butler at the Daily Pfennig, agrees with Sean in […]
Top posts from the past week: The Case for Shorting Long Dated US Treasuries Why the Yen and Dollar are Rallying GoldMoney: Gold’s New Highs vs. Other Currencies Jim Rogers on CNBC: October 22, 2008 Foods and Softs Outlook A review of my futures trades from the previous week: Covered my Swiss Franc long – […]
Here’s the best explanation I’ve read yet – courtesy of Everbank’s Chris Gaffney – in today’s Daily Pfennig: These investors had to sell some of their higher yielding assets to make up for the losses, and a move toward deleveraging started to emerge. As these first investors sold these assets, their price dropped, forcing still […]
Top posts from the past week: Stratfor: States, Economies, and Markets: Redefining the Rules Marc Faber on CNBC – October 14, 2008 Warren Buffett: I’m Buying US Stocks Now A review of my futures trades from the previous week: Went long the Swiss Franc – As I mentioned last week, I wanted find a match […]
Top posts from the past week: Quick Thoughts on the (Very) Latest Black Monday AuEx Ventures: An Intriguing Gold Junior Opportunity Sequoia Capital: RIP Good Times Jim Rogers on CNBC and Bloomberg – 10/10/08 A review of my trades from the week that was: Closed out my Japanese Yen position – Closed out on the […]
Top posts from the past week: Financial Times: Wealthy Investors Demanding Unprecedented Amounts of Physical Gold Jim Rogers on CNBC 10/1/08 Quick Thoughts on the Latest Black Monday A review of my trades from the week that was: Closed out my Swiss Franc position – Yikes – this trade did not work out, I got […]
Top posts from the past week: Five Easy Ways You Can Diversify Away From the Dollar US Mint: Sorry, we’re out of gold (again) Jim Rogers: Bailout is “welfare for the rich” A review of my trades from the week that was: Went long the Swiss Franc – The Swissie is the Yen’s carry trade […]
My morning glance at the Futures screens revealed that, well, just about everything is down across the board. Of special note: Cotton flirting with the 60-cent handle (wow, that looks cheap) Silver getting kicked in the teeth again Oil off big again, flirting with $90 Not to mention global stock markets getting slammed across the […]
Chuck Butler mentioned yesterday in the Daily Pfennig that, for the first time since 2005, Futures Traders are going long the US Dollar. 2005, you’ll remember, was the year of the dollar’s counter rally in this downtrend. Nothing goes straight up or down, so we’ll see if this is the start of some sort of […]
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