DUST Trade

If you are one of the brave souls who got into the DUST trade, please refer to my chart below. We are now in the "Conviction required" section of that chart. All the gold related indices still look top heavy to me. I'm sticking with it for now until these patterns play out. The nice thing is that I am up 8 times greater than I am down in loss because of my mining shares.

Gold - I Believe A Correction Is Coming

You've seen my posts about certain mining companies and you clearly know I prefer metals and think we have seen a breath of life in our sector. However, nothing goes up in a straight line.

That being said let's look at some charts and I'll tell you what I think.

Disclosure: I am not a financial advisor and what you are about to read is my opinion only. I just opened a DUST position before close on Friday. I think a correction is coming which may begin immediately and may be significant. I will not sell one share of my miners and am prepared to pay the piper if I am wrong on this but I think we can make some quick change on a DUST trade. Do so at your own risk. I learned about DUST from Clive Maund of whom I have a subscription from. This is my original idea. (/disclosure off)

 First, the GDX. What's there to say?

Next, DUST:

Gold:

Bonus fortuna!

Gold - They Know It's A Game!

Listen folks, unless you drink the Kool-Aid, you have to know the system is a game. These people are soooooo full of it you have to be a child to believe them. Guilt is oozing out of their pores.

Watch this video of Mark Spitznagel tell people that the Keynesians are about to get their toes slammed in the door as everyone rushes to the safety of gold and silver. He basically, as veiled as he can, says the system as we know it is over. DONE.

Link

 He explains that the situation that we are in is very serious. "We've only just begone", he says.

He goes on to explain that the market has been reduced to two choices; door number one, Keynesianism, or door number two (in not so many words) Austrian Economics. I.e., gold.
Capiche?

His conclusion.....as you may well guess as you're reading this blog and I'm posting it, is that if you choose door #1, the Keynesian fantasy that you can print yourself to prosperity like the French did in the late seventeen hundreds and the Germans in the early nineteen hundreds and every other foolhardy nation from the Romans to the Japanese to the Americans, you would be making a costly mistake.

Look folks, Michael Collins of Prudential Fixed Income at 3:40 asks, "Is it possible that we are going into door number 2 from door number 1? Really Michael, you think? You see my friends, how does he know what door number 2 even is? How does he know there's a time to choose gold and there's a time not to? Why are they always gold negative until they are scared to their wits end? Do you know how close we are to some financial calamity? Prepare my friends.

The days we are living in are very serious. They are make or break years. Even a poor man who buys one ounce of silver will buy some advantage.

Ray Dalio - Whatever Dude!

Ray Dalio has some disturbing news for investors: "investors should expect to experience lower than normal returns with greater than normal risk."

According to Ray though, in an article appearing on Zerohedge, negative interest rates AND helicopter money may be coming. Good news? Maybe for asset prices and even then in the very short term.

But why should investors expect lower than normal returns? In a negative interest rate environment and helicopter money and sprinkle in a dash of fear of cash becoming done away with and gold will FLOURISH! Why doesn't Ray mention this?

The gold and silver sector have been completely bombed out over the last 4 years, some issues losing 90% of their value? Will the sector wither away and die? No more silver and gold to pull out of the ground? Not likely.

So in a realm of "lower than normal returns", let's revisit the stocks that I posted the other day and see how they're doing shall we?


First, IAM Gold, up from $2.005 to $2.44.

Next is Impact Silver, up from $.15 to $.19.


Onto McEwen Mining, up from $1.47 to $1.73.
And lastly, Yamana Gold, up from $2.386 to $2.665.



So despair if you want to, others are making excellent gains and this is just the beginning of what could be a multi-year bull market.

Cashless Society and Corrupt Apologists

Unless you are living in a cave you have heard of cashless society proposals. Readers of this blog will not be surprised that I have indeed run into people who have NOT heard of this. It pains me greatly. You too have probably encountered these troglodytes that have slime for brains. Such is life.

First we learned of the proposal to eliminate the €500 note and now we here chirpings from Larry Summers to eliminate the $100 note.

You can read more here from Zerohedge:

The War On Paper Currency Begins: ECB Votes To "Scrap" 500 Euro Bill

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 - 19:54 Not a bad way to launch a global ban on paper currency ahead of a global NIRP regime, and all, of course, in the name of fighting "tax evasion, financial crime, terrorism and corruption."

Larry Summers Launches The War On Paper Money: "It's Time To Kill The $100 Bill"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/16/2016 - 08:45 "...a moratorium on printing new high denomination notes would make the world a better place."
- Larry Summers, Harvard Professor


So what's going on here? Why a push for a cashless society? At first glance you would think that it's an effort by incompetent and hopelessly corrupt governments to combat......wait for it......crime. In addition to crime, they claim it will help government officials across the world fight those nasty tax-evaders who are smuggling giant suit cases of cash to their private safe tax haven of choice. That's how it's done right?

Of course another reason that is conveniently ignored by mainstream media is the benefit to government should a bank run ensue. Your cash can be controlled and they can limit what you can take out Cyprus style. Not only that it will be much easier for them to reform the monetary system and make the changes invisible to the average dimwit. 

If you read the link above re: Larry Summers, you will read that he references a paper recently written by Peter Sands, a Harvard Wonk. Peter pushes the agenda of fighting crime and other things, corruption being last on the list. And for good reason.

Larry Summers states in his paper, "I remember that when the euro was being designed in the late 1990s, I argued with my European G7 colleagues that skirmishing over seigniorage by issuing a 500 euro note was highly irresponsible and mostly would be a boon to corruption and crime."

Do they really want to fight crime? Are they really interested in combating illegal, digital financial transactions?

Peter Sands, in his abstract, states clearly, "Yet despite huge investments in transaction surveillance systems, intelligence and interdiction, less than 1% of illicit financial flows are seized."

Suddenly I smell a rat. Think carefully how this could impact you. There's much more to say on the subject but I'll stop here. Other more informed people will surely be vetting this idea out over the coming weeks.

Canadian Gold and Brown's Bottom

Most everyone in the gold circuit by now has heard of the infamous gold sale by Gordon Brown of England's gold at the very start of the massive gold bull market we find ourselves embedded in (I know it doesn't feel like it).

Google "Brown's Bottom" and you will get 14.4 million hits! Rather than getting his 15 minutes of fame, Brown secured for himself 15+ years of infamy. The clock is still and will keep running.

Now we see that news has surfaced recently that Finance Minister Bill Morneau of Canada has decided the best course of action for Canada's gold is to be sold.

That they are doing this is not news in and of itself. Canada has slowly been divesting themselves of gold for years since Nixon closed the gold window. What's interesting is why discuss it now? 

The article I'm referring to, first found at GATA's website, was sourced at Global News, link here.

In the article one Ian Lee of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University makes some pretty incredible statements.

Calling Canada's gold sale, "wise and astute", Lees says, "It gives them more strategic flexibility to sell the gold, take the money and invest in U.S. government bonds, or United Kingdom bonds or French bonds or German bonds,”.

He goes on to say, "Central banks can hold the government bonds of other countries, and they also hold actual dollars. The Chinese Central Bank actually holds hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars. Dollars are very liquid, so are government bonds, especially of a Western country.”

We will see how "wise and astute" this sale turns out to be. Not all central banks agree that gold has no place in today's current financial environment.

But to be clear, this is not the decision of Canada's central bank. They make that clear. The Bank of Canada says this, "Canada’s gold reserves belong to the Government of Canada, and are held under the name of the Minister of Finance,” explained a spokesperson for the Bank of Canada on Wednesday. “Decisions relative to gold holdings are taken by the Minister of Finance."

Now I consider THAT wise and astute; separating themselves from this decision and putting it squarely on the Finance Minister, Bill Morneau. 

Gold Is Done With $1,200.

Well gold has decided to blast through $1,200.00 for some unknown reason. These are times to be aware of my friends. We are living in a fantastic history book right now. I watch movies about WWII with shock and bewilderment. I always imagined what those people were thinking as they watched their lives turned upside down. Are we living those times?

John the next post is for you: Who's Missing the Rally In Gold and Silver Stocks? below.