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Goodbye $44

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The real beauty about waging a two front war (keeping gold from hitting the barrage of $1,500 limit spot orders; and silver from passing a dollar a day) means that Comex cartel has to pick its fights. Today gold loses for now, as the $1,500 spot (but not futures) price is safely defended. The same can not be said for silver. $44 was just taken out. And those who actually wish to buy American Eagles can do so at the low, low price of $47.32 on Monex.

 

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Tue, 04/19/2011 - 20:35 | 1186352 nmewn
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Oh, the pain...the pain of it all...your ass must be extremely delicate today...LOL.

I see you're still Lost in Space ;-)

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 20:55 | 1190656 eisley79
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good of you to notice, just remember, when you are viewing these pages in the coming days and weeks, and no longer posting due to being right phacking OWNED on your opinions (but not your money cause you dont have any), that we will all be:

 

struttin' that ass, while you are walking 38 miles...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fmwxaBjFGM

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:52 | 1185390 SheepDog-One
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Oh so you were the guy who bought the $1 million in $25 SLV puts a week ago? *golf chortle*

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:53 | 1185405 Dangertime
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That guy was too early.  Friday was my arrival.  I am guessing the silver doors might close as early as this week.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:02 | 1185461 SheepDog-One
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Silver scarcity! Next up will be everyone trying to outbid each other for the scraps!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:44 | 1185641 Teamtc321
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Come on, don't wait till 50, get you some now lmfao..

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:27 | 1185790 Dangertime
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I did pick up some more today actually.  I am hoping for a gap up tomorrow, that usually is the death toll for these kinds of moves.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:19 | 1185749 UninterestedObserver
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If silver hits $50 I will buy some more of those soon to be worthless Puts - there fixed it for ya

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:56 | 1185431 tmosley
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I am happy to hold bags full of silver.

You, on the other hand, are going to lose 100% on your dumbshit put options.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:57 | 1185437 Dangertime
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I think we have a nominee for the final bagholder.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:04 | 1185467 tmosley
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You can hold the bags of devalued dollars.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:11 | 1185491 Dangertime
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For the next few months I would be glad to.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:44 | 1185648 akak
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Dangerclown, you are obviously paid by the number of posts, and not by the word --- much less for meaningful content in your trolling posts.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:00 | 1185703 tmosley
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We'll see who comes out on top.  Probably the same one who always does.

That's me, if you can't comprehend the inference.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:29 | 1185796 Dangertime
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I'll be happy to hand you your first loss.

My team and I are paid highly to keep this metal down, lest we lose control of the markets.  My masters would be most unhappy with that.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:47 | 1185843 tmosley
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lol, good luck with that.  You can't force a loss on someone who owns physical.

Push it down below my cost average around $16, and I'll bust the COMEX myself.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:48 | 1185857 Dangertime
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I'm only talking about paper.  My physical is not for sale.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:44 | 1185983 akak
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My physical is not for sale.

Let me guess ---- "safely" stored with a third-party, "fully secure" unallocated account?

What, you say, that is not actual "physical" metal?  Well, Jeffrey "100:1" Christian claims that it is, and if it's good enough for a buddy of Jon Nadler, then it's good enough for me!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 19:48 | 1186223 Dangertime
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I don't trust anyone with physical.  Nor should you.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 20:48 | 1186388 nmewn
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"My team and I are paid highly to keep this metal down, lest we lose control of the markets."

Nice job brownie...you and your "team" should take a bow...must be a gubmint team where results don't matter...in the private sector you would be fired for your lack of accomplishment ;-)

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:47 | 1185840 BigJim
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You remind me of a troll we used to see round here called 'Math Man' - any relation?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:50 | 1185870 Dangertime
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No idea who he is, I've been reading ZH for awhile but never commented much.  Altho some of you guys are pretty witty.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:06 | 1185479 Richard Head
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Tmos, is danger clown the same troll as billy the butt tard?  Or are they two separate but equally worthless people?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:15 | 1185508 tmosley
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They seem different to me.  William the Bastard switched to long juan silver.

This loser is basically a clone of Math Man, down to the claims of fancy cars and other worthless posessions.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:19 | 1185522 Dangertime
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Well it's not a new Porsche.....but god willing I will have my first new one within the next few years.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:28 | 1185571 tmosley
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I think you'll have to settle for one of these: http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb140/1994SS/Matchbox%20Customs/Porsc...

Enjoy your life in a van down by the river, loser.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:32 | 1185800 Dangertime
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Ah, so you grew up in the 80's and 90's then?  Surprised you have not yet learned what happens when markets get frothy.  There have been SO many lessons since then.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:49 | 1185851 BigJim
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The froth, my friend, is the value of the USD.

Oh yeah, I forgot, for some reason 'this time is different' for fiat.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:00 | 1185899 Dangertime
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Fiat will die, but not this run.  Give it 6-8 years.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:47 | 1185998 akak
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"8 years"?!

Shit, this whole corrupt and tottering financial and monetary system will LONG be overturned before eight more years!  If the Masters of the Universe can keep stringing this "Weekend at Bernie's" along for another two years, I will be shocked.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 19:46 | 1186228 Dangertime
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Yet somehow it struggles on.  Even after the 2008 collapse.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:46 | 1185854 tmosley
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How does I used Google?

Your constant assumption-making is a presage to your downfall.

Enjoy the gutter.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:25 | 1185950 Dangertime
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I'm not sure who to feel more sorry for, you or akak.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:47 | 1185362 Long-John-Silver
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If I have a very good week I buy Gold. If I have an average week I buy Silver. I don't even worry about buying a dip or even what the price is. Gold and Silver will soon buy an infinite amount of fiat paper Dollars.

One day soon I will dumpster dive for worthless FRN's behind a bank and use them in my fireplace for winter warmth.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:54 | 1185670 FLIP THAT BOND
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I just got my first 100 oz bar.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 23:23 | 1186777 Braverdave
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I am making new purchases of physical silver and gold at 44 and 1500.

Bought both yesterday. Nothing in quantity like I did with my first silver/gold purchases years ago. But I am adding some silver and a bit of gold every couple weeks or couple months as the case may be.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:35 | 1185295 kito
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did i screw up buy purchasing much more physical gold than silver. im getting silver envy here! 

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:37 | 1185313 Long-John-Silver
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No, Gold is sitting on a spring that is getting compressed everyday.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:59 | 1185698 DoChenRollingBearing
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L-J-S is right.  For me, gold is the way to go if you have the patience.  But, holding silver has been a great spec!

Disclosure: I hold 'em all (Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, Pb), mostly in gold.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:45 | 1185300 tickhound
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 Bernanke May Sustain Stimulus to Avoid ‘Cold Turkey’ End to Aid  Bloomberg

 

There won't be a cold turkey.   

Ray Charles said even he saw this coming.  And no, he didn't need bloomblurb.

 

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:36 | 1185302 Piranhanoia
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now under 34:1

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:36 | 1185308 Bastiat
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Army ants running up JPMs pantlegs.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:41 | 1185316 francis_sawyer
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Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:38 | 1185319 jimijon
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And here I was offering my coin for $44.00 for any ZH'r. Well all you smart investors missed that boat as I now rescind that offer. haha

Back to $48 (for now) for everyone.

http://www.mundogold.com

 

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:41 | 1185325 QE4EVER
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Who cares!  Gold and silver are the red-headed step child bitches to the internet and consumer mania stocks.

Even with levered positions in both the metals the YOKU, DANG, MOBI, PWRD, SNDA, SINA, PCLN, LULU, WFMI and PWRD names are and will continue to smoke them from a performance standpoint...

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:39 | 1185326 RobotTrader
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Unreal....

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:42 | 1185333 lieutenantjohnchard
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correction: real.

read 'em and weep.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:48 | 1185367 Cash_is_Trash
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Dude, it's only going higher!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:51 | 1185386 tickhound
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Deflation, Inflation... nearly irrelevant.

The retail investor will be left in the dust as "positioned" banks have no intention on letting them in on this trade.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:48 | 1185380 Cdad
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Yeah, exactly, what is unreal?  That gay men's fashion stocks stopped going up every second...or the silver thing?  

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:58 | 1185443 LFMayor
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really?  Dammit, and I was looking to buy some stock in "International Male".

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:03 | 1185458 SheepDog-One
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Robo sure does love him some gay men fashion Abercrombie assless jeans stocks.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 23:39 | 1186836 Braverdave
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+ 1

Yeah ... I was wondering the same thing.

And am still laughing. I will laugh some more tomorrow.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:53 | 1185400 SheepDog-One
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Real.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:54 | 1185423 Dangertime
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Be brave when others are afraid, and afraid when others are brave.

 

The end is very close.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 23:27 | 1186790 StychoKiller
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I can think of $14Trillion+ reasons why you are correct!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:26 | 1185952 AmazingLarry
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Super duper real-like...in like real reality en shit. Get real, real fizzikal yo.

 

 

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 00:04 | 1186895 redpill
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How come it's never unreal when one of your stupid fucking fantasy bullshit retail stocks does that?  Because you're an intellectually dishonest pricktroll?

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 06:57 | 1187303 fiftybagger
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RoboFAIL, in da house.  Let's get this party started.  46 anyone?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:44 | 1185327 TheGoodDoctor
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The great thing was I saw something come across the Bloomberg ticker that said the Bernank wasn't going to let the economy go "cold turkey" off of QE2. Bring on the methadone!

Here you go! Looks like Rickards called it at KWN.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-19/bernanke-may-reinvest-maturing-debt-to-avoid-cold-turkey-end-to-stimulus.html

50+. Announcement probably to come on 4/27.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:54 | 1185409 SheepDog-One
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Paging Mr Bernank to FED methadone clinic, stat!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:00 | 1185454 Verstehen
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Cold turkey was needed in 2008. Now with trillions in dope added it will be worse. There's a 75,000 billion dollar overhang. In that hole Bernanke is blowing his money. The US economy is actually worth -61,000 billion dollar. The US is technically bankrupt. Its a gigantic Ponzi scheme and when it comes finally down watch out. Deflationary Depression is inevitably. The housing sector is showing the way. Now the states are laying off teachers in the tens of thousands. 45% of Americans are working and falling. It has just started. You see nothing yet but this is the end of the American age and its neo-liberal neo-con parasites. And they are bullying Central banks into financing this failing war economy. This is a bad joke. The American and British establishment is totally clueless how to manage a war economy. They are stupid. Hang them.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:44 | 1185337 Worker Bee
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Yay! 44 devalued FRN's

The FED is devaluing the dollar! But silver is up! oh..wait a second...

Note to junkers...I own physical too. ;)

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:01 | 1185457 TheGoodDoctor
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I wasn't going to junk you, but you are missing that silver is undervalued for inflation anyway. So, technically you are catching up to the inflation but really your net worth is increasing especially against the DOW in oz of silver. Just keep that in mind. :)

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:51 | 1185940 Worker Bee
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Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:46 | 1185347 SumSUN
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Sweet!  But i think it is taking its (silver) sweet time getting to > $100 U.S.  JPM must still be holding the ball underwater.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:48 | 1185349 Thunder Dome
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Miners can't catch a bid. LMAO

 

Smackdown on the way!

 

Disclosure: Long $25 SLV Puts

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:50 | 1185377 tmosley
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Yes, you are a complete and utter failure, aren't you?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:56 | 1185414 Burticus
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If you really wanna laugh your @$$ completely off yer body, run charts of SPX, USB, HUI and even gold measured in silver, show 'em to your favorite "don't worry be happy"ers and watch the simpering grimaces on their faces.

Cuntpared to silver, EVERYTHING ELSE SUCKS!

And nobody coulda seen it comin'...  (Act surprised)

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:56 | 1185879 BigJim
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Give us a date on those puts, so we can either congratulate your sagacity or gloat at your stupidity when they expire.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:47 | 1185356 Saucy-Jack
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I love the smell of silver in the morning.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:49 | 1185389 Long-John-Silver
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and colloidal in my coffee

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:55 | 1186030 laissez-faire
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I lol-ed

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 23:53 | 1186870 Braverdave
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I added a splash to my vodka.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:47 | 1185359 Burticus
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ZH, puleeeease quit reminding me every day (there is a new record) what a chicken$#!+ I was for not mortgaging my home, selling most my stuff and leveraging what was left to the max, kicking out all my rifles, pistols & shotguns and loading my monstrosity gun safe slap full of 1,000 ounce CRIMEX good delivery bars (i.e. BTFD) when papersilver price dipped below 9,000 milliFeRNs in 2008!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:46 | 1185364 RobotTrader
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SLV reminds me of QCOM in 1999.

It is going to be a huge short eventually.

Gotta wait to see a massive key outside day reversal.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:49 | 1185372 tmosley
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Fuck you, Robo.  Go all in short on leverage today.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:49 | 1185387 RobotTrader
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Sorry, unlike you, I have discipline.  I'll wait for the signal first.  It could go to $100 before it reverses.

I still have plenty of physical, I'll be scaling out of some of my coins when things get really crazy.  But I'll be shorting the paper eventually.  It is going to be the "trade of the decade...."

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:53 | 1185413 lieutenantjohnchard
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look yourself in the mirror. you won't have the courage to short slv. your brain flies all over the place which sabotages success. plus, you'll be too busy posting and taunting to make money.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:58 | 1185424 akak
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I'll be scaling out of some of my coins when things get really crazy.  But I'll be shorting the paper eventually.  It is going to be the "trade of the decade...."

I'm sure that there were plenty of short-term center-thinkers doing similarly during the glory days of the Weimar stock market, too.

"But, but, but, markets ALWAYS have to correct and revert to the mean eventually, don't they?"

LobotTrader, you need to open your pathetically blinkered eyes and:

1) learn the difference between nominal gains and real gains,

2) realize that your beloved financial and monetary status-quo is dying before your eyes.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:02 | 1185451 tmosley
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Bullshit.  If you had "discipline", you wouldn't be bitching and bad-mouthing the CIGAs.  You have lost, and you know it.  

Sore loser, and worse, a fool who holds onto losing positions.

Have some conviction in your bullshit and sell your supposed physical silver now, and go short.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:22 | 1185535 Richard Head
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You're full of shit plain and simple.  Starting with how you supposedly "retired" to trade for a living.   

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:50 | 1185578 tmosley
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More like "got his ass fired for incompetence".

His mother is mad because the old hag can't get any sex with his fat, balding ass in the house.

I would imagine the scene is something like this, at 2:25: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVXqJ3A6NWw

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:36 | 1185596 akak
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You're full of shit plain and simple.  Starting with how you supposedly "retired" to trade for a living. 

You must have misheard Lobot --- he said that he is too retarded to trade for a living!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:49 | 1185662 Teamtc321
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If your where not tucked inside your asshole, you could see that it is now.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:34 | 1185808 Testicular Cancer
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Robo has a couple of good points even if it is currently ill-advised. Silver should not be the only investment we hold, though it is my main. Also, at some point, we may have to get out into something else like arable land, girlie jeans, Victoria Secret lingerie. Let us not get too myopic.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:45 | 1185993 Creed
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I still have plenty of physical, I'll be scaling out of some of my coins when things get really crazy.

 

 

just curious RT, what's your definition of crazy? that's a serious question, do you have a price point in mind?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:52 | 1186011 homersimpson
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You have as much discipline as the Fed has with printing money, if any of your monday morning QB posts are any indication..

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:50 | 1185393 Cdad
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Seriously, you must have ment Lulu reminds you of QCOM.  Are you ok, Robo?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:50 | 1185401 lieutenantjohnchard
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robottrader reminds me of a crybaby who can't come to grips with the fact that he was wrong about gold and silver, and missed a huge run.

now, his fear-based portfolio of widows and orphans stocks lags huge, and he has performance anxiety, and a green, jealous envy of those living in the hamptons with russian girls of the night on the side.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:53 | 1185415 SheepDog-One
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LOL Robo keep whining.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:20 | 1185527 JohnG
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QCOM....got out early and made a fortune friend.  Probably the same with silver, but not selling.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:09 | 1185726 DoChenRollingBearing
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I was lucky too back in the day with my 100 shares.  No fortune, but a BIG % gain with my QCOM way back then.

SOON, I may start trading in some of my silver for gold.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:54 | 1185666 MayIMommaDogFac...
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SLV reminds me of QCOM in 1999.

This is stupidest fucking thing you have ever posted, and THAT is saying A LOT.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:48 | 1185368 scatterbrains
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do you think one day they'll offer a silver amnesty where you can exchange your coin for your mortgage paper ?

 

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:54 | 1185410 Henry Chinaski
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Silver amnesty = They will let you turn it in to the govt for $15/oz, no questions asked, for a while.  After that you will be charged and arrested.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:46 | 1185370 FunkyOldGeezer
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Remember... In a hyperinflationary scenario Gold and Silver could theoretically go to infinity. However, I wonder if it might be wise to sell small chunks of the hard stuff as landmark prices are taken out? Decisions, decisions.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:51 | 1185402 RobotTrader
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Exactly.  Better start ringing the cash register when things get out of control.  To let all that profit disappear is just plain stupid.  I'm not greedy.  Sheesh, just one box of silver eagles I bought in 2003 can buy me a freaking Prius right now!!!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:57 | 1185435 SheepDog-One
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Hey Robo you were calling the top when silver was at $30! But youre still holding those silver eagles? Uh huh, sure, I think ye be full of horse apples!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:51 | 1185668 Spastica Rex
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Apples? Is that what it's called now?

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 02:22 | 1187098 Burnbright
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Prius is a freaking money pit. Get a yaris if you want good gas milage.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:53 | 1185403 Long-John-Silver
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I plan on trading my Gold and Silver for food and energy as everyone else starves and freeze to death.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:06 | 1185717 primalplasma
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Go solar so you will at least have free lighting.

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 00:01 | 1186889 Braverdave
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Maybe a few panels soon. Waiting for the Canadian election to decide which ass grabbing talking head will be our next 'dear leader'. Seems I heard one of them was offering a tax break for green energy spending.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 22:47 | 1186677 ManOfBliss
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LOL

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:05 | 1185478 the not so migh...
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yeah thats what it is all about FunkyOldGeezer

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:50 | 1185394 Henry Chinaski
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Something's gotta give.  All the financial shit that's been happening in the past few weeks makes me think that TPTB are losing it. Geithner, Obama, and Bernanke running around assuring everyone that "all is well" in the midst of an S&P downgrade while gold and silver shoot the moon.  I am thinking this is not a good sign.

Yet the criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Ludwig von Mises

http://mises.org/

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:54 | 1185412 Long-John-Silver
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Wiemar and Zimbabwe are US

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:34 | 1185588 tmosley
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Pricing action has seemed rather contrived lately.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:53 | 1185397 hambone
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OK, honest...who is buying physical here and now???

Last purchase was at $37 and that seemed high...do I keep on w/ my cash to PM's program or take a pause? n. 

Opinions???

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:51 | 1185406 tekhneek
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Are you planning on the U.S. Dollar being more valuable than physical silver anytime soon? If you are, then I'll buy your silver from you @ spot.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:58 | 1185434 hambone
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Not selling (unless you are happy to pay above spot?) -

Just asking are people looking at this as an entry point for more physical?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:24 | 1185537 JohnG
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Think long term.

And yes.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:37 | 1185620 Arius
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no way - this is way too expensive....wouldnt you agree???

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:53 | 1185873 UninterestedObserver
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LOL expensive compared to what? Dollars Euros?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 19:24 | 1185997 HK
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Expensive is relative, each time I buy silver, I think it's expensive.  I'm 54 and started collecting coins when I was 8, just about the time they were phasing silver out of circulation, but we still found plenty of silver coins in circulation.  Bought some gold coins in the 70's when it was $120 an ounce, hat tip to John Kamin of the Forecaster who influenced me to do so. But actually a watershed event in my life was when I found ZH in July 2009.  I know, I just registered as a member relatively recently, but I tend to learn more when I read.  After having visited ZH for about a month, I announced to the wife that we were going to take 50% of our liquid wealth and put it into gold and silver.  I got the usual eye roll like I was crazy, now she thinks "we're" doing really good.  I have to tell her that it's just the dollar is doing really bad and I think she's caught on to the concept a little, particularly when she goes to the store. Anyway, got gold at $940 an ounce and bought a bag of junk silver when it was $14 and change, a few months later when it was $17 and change and the last purchase was November 2010 when it was $27 and change.  Every time I buy, I think it's expensive compared to the kid who would pick silver out of change.  Yet, when all is said and done, we may be able to walk away from the table with something other than toilet paper. 

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 00:07 | 1186906 Braverdave
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Expensive is relative

Ditto that. Especially the eye rolling. But my closest friends and family have a different look in their eyes as of late.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:50 | 1185869 UninterestedObserver
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I go to a flea market every month and pick up coins at a good price - did 2 weeks ago and will 2 weeks from now. It has worked out well for over 2 1/2 years now..

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:18 | 1185933 Clay Hill
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Bingo!

Can't print Silver.

Been doing it whenever I see a piece I like for two decades now.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:56 | 1185426 Long-John-Silver
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I remember the same when I was buying Silver at $12 and Gold at $700. I'm still buying and don't even care about the numbers of rapidly declining value of FRN's that requires.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:57 | 1185692 Teamtc321
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LJS,

I agree, long term not next week is my goal. Even if we take a crash tonight, I'm still going to keep buying physical. I see no reason to stop the base line on physical holdings at all.  

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 00:14 | 1186922 Braverdave
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If there was a crash tonight I think it might be difficult to buy physical tomorrow.

But until then (when?) I keep buying and holding for the long term too.

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 00:13 | 1186930 Braverdave
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Duplicate (sorry)

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:05 | 1185477 Gigliola Cinquetti
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bought another 100 oz at 40.7

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:32 | 1185532 cowdiddly
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another 150oz @ 43.00 Have not even got delivery yet. I show you Inflation/devaluation  first 100 bucks bought 5 eagles now I can't even get 2 with the 2-Ply(Less that 1 year later). Au @ 280 :) 1999 

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:22 | 1185529 samsara
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I bought xxx Ag @  $7

I bought xxx Au @ $400

 

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:35 | 1185601 tmosley
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I buy every month.

Cash is trash.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 21:23 | 1186454 Chump
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Being honest, $32.00 was too expensive for me.  PMs are a store of wealth so it's all relative.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:54 | 1185408 camoes
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Silver Miners (SIL) finally reacting, could it be the unwind of the Long Metal/Short Miners trade? Bought me some 29 May calls just in case...

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:31 | 1185575 Re-Discovery
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Must be the unwind as the up move correlated with other silver stocks.  At 2:30, sold all Sil at 28.39 and moved into PSLV as it started its final move up.  Was sure the same inverse relationship would play out.  Man was I wrong.  Lost a 1% move and kicking myself, but if all silver related stocks start to correlate, then the days of this being a manipulated market may be at an end. Shorts may be throwing in the towel provide a nice bid under any dip for the next few days.  Good to be in PMs now (may be time to shift a little more to gold.)  Very good.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:43 | 1185646 Re-Discovery
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Also add that SIL (and mining sector) at 28.76 maybe the only place to get silver in the low 30's (last I read, $28 SIL price level correlated to $28-30 oz.)

Now if every two-bit dictator starts nationalizing, there could be an issue, but my sense is tha they will get bribed sufficiently short of that decision.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:52 | 1185411 RobotTrader
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Some dogs are starting to bark.

AEM up over 5% today.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:57 | 1185428 SheepDog-One
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The dog in your new profile pic is barking. Bring back Ol Catfishmouth!

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:59 | 1185438 lieutenantjohnchard
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yeah, but do you have the courage to hold for the big move? you've held them this long. will you bail at break even? or will you have the courage to hold based on a world view that the problems in the usa are intractable?

my hunch is you bail at break even.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:55 | 1185429 velobabe
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And those who actually wish to buy American Eagles can do so at the low, low price of $47.32 on Monex.

i simply don't understand why one would have to pay 47.32 to buy silver coins, when it is @ $44.00? i don't know much, mind you†

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:58 | 1185446 Long-John-Silver
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Why do grocery stores sell food at prices above what they paid for it?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:50 | 1185664 seek
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There's two components to this. One is you're paying mark-up/commission on the trade.

The other is, $44 is for a chunk of raw silver in bulk. An eagle is a small portion, assayed, and manufacturered into a beautiful coin, so you're paying fabrication costs.

If you buy large bars the per-ounce premium is lower, but they're harder to handle and you can't sell of just one ounce easily. I will say, though, having a few 100oz bars is pretty satisfying in the holding-them-and-calling-them-my-precious kind of way.

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 00:24 | 1186955 Braverdave
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Yes, my precious ... very satisfying (even at several 10 oz. bars ;) -

Just look at all my precious,

Sitting there all in a row,

Round ones, squarish ones,

Silver ones, gold ones,

Some as big as your head!

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 02:33 | 1187110 Great Dane
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Welcome to the party pal. if you know why then you also don't know your going to need monthss of bottled water, ammo, stored food...did I mention barbed wire as well?

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 07:14 | 1187344 fiftybagger
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Non-GMO seeds, back up generators, lotsa tools, first aid kits, bug out bags, on and on...

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 15:58 | 1185444 Tracerfan
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Silver is saying that Timmy boy's assurances of a AAA credit rating are empty.

Who would have imagined?

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:01 | 1185895 narapoiddyslexia
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I'm a rube. An amateur. But I think silver is saying there's a greater demand than there is a supply. How many people all over the world are sick to death of the disgraceful scumbags in DC? I think there might be quite a few. How many of them wish to ditch the dollar? Again, I think there might be quite a few. So what is a good substitute? Why, its silver and gold, idn't it? The problem arises from the lack of ounces above the ground. One billion ounces means there's about 1/7th of an ounce each, and I alone have 15,000 times that buried in my back yard. [Well, sort of. Its in a box at the bank, actually.] If even 450,000 people had as much as I did, it would all be accounted for. So there might well be 500 times as much demand as there is supply. So, where do prices go? Prices will quadruple and production will double and in five or ten years the thing will flatten out. 

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 07:18 | 1187354 fiftybagger
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"Prices will quadruple and production will double and in five or ten years the thing will flatten out"

 

Problem is the silver supply is inelastic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMwmsI5plvw

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:00 | 1185445 FunkyOldGeezer
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Moreover, for those folks who may have bought Silver when the Silver/Gold ratio was in the mid-high 80s, it might be a good time to start playing the ratio game, bit by bit.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:12 | 1185733 DoChenRollingBearing
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Gold is on sale vs. silver.  GSR at about 34 today.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 17:53 | 1185877 UninterestedObserver
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? GSR should be 16 to 20

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:00 | 1185455 the not so migh...
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i luv silver

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:05 | 1185463 FunkyOldGeezer
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Gold/DJI to one, or better?

Silver/DJI to fifteen, or better?

That's when it might well be time to sell.

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 16:04 | 1185471 redpill
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Sell for what, FRNs?  What are you going to do with them?

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