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Some Things Never Change
An old friend of mine stopped by the office a few weeks ago and he unwittingly reinforced my complete confidence that you can still do very well in the markets. This is saying quite a bit given the frustrating state of the markets where government decree drives nearly all of daily trading activity.
Now, he wasn’t overly bullish or bearish. He wasn’t betting big on a rally with banks. And he didn’t just make a huge score on some triple-leverage ETF or anything like that. He’s simply running his business and, in the midst of the worst economic downturn decades, it’s…
25Mar2009 | Q1 Publishing | 1 comment | ContinuedGold in backwardation
Unlike other commodities, gold very rarely goes into backwardation: This only occurs when 1) The market fears a collapse in the currency., and/or 2) The market is worried about counterparties making good on their promise to deliver gold (which was briefly the case in 1999, when the Washington Agreement was announced and shorts were squeezed).
This morning, gold officially went into backwardation for the first time since the announcement of the Washington Agreement in 1999, which sent gold shorts scrambling to find physical metal after the world’s major central banks agreed to limit sales of gold going forward and ending…
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