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Today's Precious Metal Close Banging Moment Brought By The Fine People At The Comex

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It's 1:30 pm, the close of trading on the COMEX pit: do you know who is banging the close in your silver?

Silver pits close at 1:25 pm, just as the dump in silver peaked. Gold followed suit, with its 1:30 pm close. This blatant attempt to dump PMs into the pit close and have silver and gold end trading on the books near the lows of the day merely confirms that "someone" is truly desperate to avoid an avalanche of margin calls. Of course, this uber-cheap trick works at best for a day or two.

 

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Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:34 | 1004786 lieutenantjohnchard
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remember the old snl scit circa 1975 or so where buck henry played the role of a call in radio talk show host. he had a bank of about 10 phones. couldn't get anybody to respond so he kept raising the ante with wild issues to discuss. at the end he was saying things like "i'm in favor of busing in soviet communists to teach godless communism to your children." had to be there but it was funny.

just offering you a creative idea to help ease the boredom at work. you're welcome in advance.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 15:52 | 1004638 What_Me_Worry
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CDE doing alright.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 15:56 | 1004647 10044
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Tyler PLZ report on finra 4320 going to effect today

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:00 | 1004660 f16hoser
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Make sure this happens next week. I'm doubling-down on my physical holdings and need the price to stay where it's at.........

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:03 | 1004668 Hugh G Rection
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C'mon guys roll it over. Don't stand for delivery and screw the great buying opportunity.

 

Remember the story of the father and son bull... "Don't run down the hill and fuck a cow, walk down and fuck them all."

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:10 | 1004697 vas deferens
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Does anyone know why CDE is up 12%

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:13 | 1004713 What_Me_Worry
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Their Q4 report.  Much better than expected and gave a very rosy outlook.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:16 | 1004719 luk427
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Bought the fucking dip!

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:30 | 1004770 baby_BLYTHE
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titty twister,

Fill me up with Silver and Gold.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:23 | 1004747 ArkOmen1
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Earth to Beavis.... Uh, like, my uh, Hecla Mining company is getting like, uh, screwed today like that sick scene in Pulp Fiction. Heh, heh... Like, what happened? This isn't cool

Tue, 03/01/2011 - 00:42 | 1006078 tmosley
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I owned Hecla up until a couple of years ago when I recognized that the markets were completely manipulated.  I then dropped it (doubled my dollar supply doing so), and went all in physical.

Don't screw around with miners unless you are using money that you would otherwise take to Vegas.  They are paper, and may very well go to nothing.  Or you might get lucky and see the leverage they once represented come back into play.  I, for one, won't touch them, as enticing as they may be.

Note that since I dropped all my paper, I have increased the dollar value of those holdings by some 250%.  Of course, this is not much compared to HLs 500% gain in the same period, but others that I owned have not done as well.  Owning a single miner is a sure path to ulcers, and a likely path to financial ruin.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:28 | 1004767 Dr. Porkchop
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To the tune of It's Cryin' Time Again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ULkUzRCSs

 

It's Buyin' Time Again

Oh, it's buyin' time again, you best believe me
I can see that bang the close look in your eyes
I can tell by the way you paint the charts oh darlin' Oooh
That it won't be long before it's buyin' time...

 

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:34 | 1004787 luk427
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Is Meth Man really Bigus Dicus? They both seem to get really upset when their credibility is questioned.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:41 | 1004808 lieutenantjohnchard
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might be. but surely he's a practical joker. he gets bored at work and he and the buds decide to rile folks up at zh with statements he knows will set people off, me included. like i said he probably has a whole safe full of silver.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:54 | 1004862 dumpster
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math man bored at work hardly,,

He loves lining up for unemployment checks .  needs to check in a couple times a day.  To fabricate his job hunt..

any one with a scintilla of ethic would cry uncle run to the arms of his mirror and find a anal regressive  hugging himself

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 18:25 | 1005187 DoChenRollingBearing
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LOL as usual.

JonNadler wonders whether his new troll can last 2 more weeks.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 18:55 | 1005267 lieutenantjohnchard
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lol. ok. i like your concept better.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:36 | 1004796 luk427
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Looks like some short covering going on with SLW.TO and ABX.TO.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:42 | 1004811 The Count
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...and on a very important side note...

Did ANYONE hear in the MSM about the Croatian unrest this weekend? No? This piece of news was squashed here and in most of Europe as well.

 

The proverbial SHTF must be a lot closer than we all think.

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5he9nZr1eQHzEQr1daZrNrmiLxKIw?docId=6085423


Mon, 02/28/2011 - 23:29 | 1005903 Lord Koos
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I've heard nothing, I found out about Croatia by accident on youtube.  Not so interesting having a non-middle eastern country explode apparently.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:48 | 1004837 JonNadler
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silver just retraced the whole drop...poor, "poor" Blythy

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 18:01 | 1005090 youngman
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What is amazing is that they can drop it at their whim.....we can´t do that...I want one of those computers.....all I have is an Ipad...lol

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 18:16 | 1005144 JonNadler
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no, what is amazing is that they drop it at a whim, but now it just comes back up! 50 cent drop and retracement in a couple of hours

we trolls is becoming totally irrelevant. Isn't that right Methman and Spaulding Smells?

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 18:26 | 1005190 DoChenRollingBearing
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You and dumpster are cracking me up!  Thanks for the laughs!

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 19:02 | 1005283 Bay of Pigs
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Where is Spalding? I thought our new resident expert on PM's was now firmly on the bullish side of the gold/silver trade? 

He's of no use to you now Mr Nadler.

LMAO...

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 20:20 | 1005467 tmosley
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He's busy delivering a dinette set.  Only load he's had in a week :(

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 23:30 | 1005907 Lord Koos
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I'm totally cool with silver adding 30-50 cents every day. 

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 20:20 | 1005469 IQ 145
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 The silver market is amazingly strong. China continues to offer support at these prices.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:49 | 1004843 dumpster
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math man is a lopster

ready to be cooked

in the mean time he spends his free time .. which is aways ,, using his claws to grab every one down into his pot of foam and spit,

the meat will be eaten, the shell tossed to the wind as the birds make short work

but what remains is the crap at the bottom of the pot ,

math man ,,,

but wait it cost mathman  just a dime to spit into the air and catch it in his  cloth hanky,, soap and water to purge the cloth

just rinse repeat , 

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 18:28 | 1005198 DoChenRollingBearing
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Not to mention:

Fade to stupid!

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 18:40 | 1005224 dumpster
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by DoChenRollingBearing
on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 17:28
#1005198 lol   math man is the guy who goes out with mother permission a couple of his high school friends goes to a lap dance party, comes home quizzed by mom whats that wet spot on the front of you he mumbles its the beer

 

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 18:51 | 1005254 Hulk
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Meth Boy lives in his mom' s basement and makes beer runs on his cub cadet for extra cash, LOL !

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 19:12 | 1005304 Al Gorerhythm
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Man, Id love to be able to post a pick of Blank Man. My mental pic of Meth Man is similar. Meth man says; There is no time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKVZcGhzG70&feature=related

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 19:49 | 1005414 Hulk
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Police cam video of meth boy getting a dui on his lawnmower:

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

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 17:54 | 1004937 klevera
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I think that i don't see any difference between BTFD on stock crew and u guys.

Even silver is a great investment, it doesn't go straight up.

If I were you, i'd be taking profit or wait for the pull back to buy more.

If you pile in now, your risk could be pretty big.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 23:16 | 1005868 StychoKiller
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Anyone that "thinks" that PMs are an investment is deluding themselves -- it's WEALTH INSURANCE!  Do you think it's a good idea to cash in your whole life policies once they're in the black, only to have to turn around and re-purchase them again?

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 17:19 | 1004939 Beau Tox
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I was just now speaking with Math Woman.  You're right, the very same Math Woman that married him before Kennedy took office.  She left the phone off hook and all I heard was screaming about the way he was supposed to clean the toilet and how next time she would make him lick it clean.  Math Man retired from teaching at Georgetown and has never since learned how to do ANYTHING right.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 17:19 | 1004941 Lord Koos
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Both metals back up now, like it never happened... wishful thinking you bastards.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 17:27 | 1004970 R Man J
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At least I don't have all my investments denominated in USD like mathman probably does.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 17:59 | 1005084 klevera
Mon, 02/28/2011 - 19:08 | 1005292 projectxland
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Total newbie question if allowed : in the graphs on Jessie's Cafe Americain, (from above), he mentions "It is quite important to remember that the market's price is set at the margins, and the distribution of the marginal price is not uniform." regarding the SP 500 and NDX March Futures chart.

Could anyone give some hints as to what this means? txvm

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 19:20 | 1005333 High Plains Drifter
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OK, if they do run out of product, won't they just pay off with FRN's ?

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 23:20 | 1005878 StychoKiller
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If I'm standing in line for around a million Toz.s in order to manufacture solar arrays, FRNs are NOT an acceptable substitute.  I'm gonna pitch a fit, and the whole World is gonna hear about it -- hard to run a Ponzi when the public KNOWS what you're doing.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 19:21 | 1005337 JonTurk
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price action in silver is extremely bullish right now... close above 34 will create a vacuum up to 40 -- its matter of time.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 20:11 | 1005454 PulauHantu29
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"They" do the same with the bank stocks. AH a few hundred thousand sahres are bought to ensure the banks clsoe green.

BOOYAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"May I have this Ponzi with you?"

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 20:26 | 1005484 Long-John-Silver
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Silver @ $33.88 now. Manipulation fail.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 20:55 | 1005540 DosZap
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They are stomping the guts out at it hitting and going over $34.00...........

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 20:48 | 1005521 klevera
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20 and 50 week moving averages have been big support levels.

But, it is so far away from those lines.

If silver will keep rising, it should not correct at all at this moment.

Otherwise it could have some correction. 

http://chart.ly/tuv9le9

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 20:52 | 1005531 surfsk8sno
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CNBC had a good segment on silver tonight http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1823087998&play=1

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 20:54 | 1005533 DosZap
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http://www.shtfplan.com/precious-metals/insider-report-us-government-will-confiscate-gold-when-it-touches-2000_02182011

Don't know the veracity of this(would  not doubt it), but for those that have not read this, maybe worth your time.

 

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 23:29 | 1005901 StychoKiller
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Piffle!  The Govt has yet to win the "War on Drug Prohibition", what's one more black market?

Tue, 03/01/2011 - 02:58 | 1006281 Lord Koos
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It didn't work in the 1930s and it's even less likely to work if they try it again.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 21:00 | 1005552 illinimatt81
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Clearly silver has room to run. The COMEX is going to avert a crisis in March it seems but more and more longs are rolling over and kicking the can down the road - kind of like QE2 propping the markets up. At some point the game comes to an end.

A good way to profit from the rise in gold and silver is to buy the miners. SLW is a good play but the real returns are coming from the Jr. Miners and emerging producers. How many of you owned Great Panther (GPL) before it was listed on the AMEX earlier this month? There are many stocks like this one that are going to be listed on AMEX soon from the pink sheets - Revett is another example that should be listed within weeks.

With institutional money and more investors willing to invest on a major exchange vs the OTC market you can bet where these are going.

I am covering my day to day portfolio in this sector at www.mattjohnsontrading.com where I show everything.

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 21:11 | 1005578 JonTurk
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big positions were rolled over... concentrated shorts finding the room to roll by putting bernanke's easy money into margin... those who are seeking jpm to go under via silver position are nothing more than naive sheeple...

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 21:30 | 1005626 Jendrzejczyk
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The three anagrams for your name:

Junk Ort
Junk Tor
Junk Rot

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 22:14 | 1005716 DavidPierre
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Today is first notice day for March COMEX Silver futures which is the start of "will they or won't they", default that is.

Many veteran metals players are not expecting default in this series. In nearly ALL past expiration cycles, Silver has been smacked over the head going into expiration and the specs fled like scared rabbits. "They" (the cabal) tried last week after the close on Thursday to get another waterfall collapse started, the collapse reversed just as quickly as it started. The powers that be were stuffed which makes you think something is very different now.

We have heard stories of contract owners being "bribed" with 25% premiums to let their contracts go into paper settlement and forego the physical off take. I have no proof of this happening but it would not shock me enough to wake me from a shallow nap. We also have been watching the inventory levels move up and down with a long term downward bias. Are the inventories real? Who knows? I haven't bothered to check but I would like to know the actual audit process and who does it.

In reality it really doesn't matter unless you are day trading and have margin that can force you out of the position.

Whether the default is now, May, July or whatever does not matter, what does matter is that you KNOW it is coming. As long as you KNOW it is coming and WHY it mathematically has to come, the "when" doesn't matter as long as you are positioned correctly and cannot be forced out.

This is where we are now, you MUST be positioned in the physical AND the PM shares to take advantage of an obvious situation that even a child can understand.

"They" did it to themselves by over selling paper obligations with no hope of delivering even 10%. 

It finally looks like the paper shorts are receiving their own paper "Waterloo" with this expiration. The actual default may be postponed but it smells like it is arriving!

"How is it possible that there is no money on the streets while the Fed creates $ Trillions?"

 Think about it, money "on the street" is actually scarce and the masses are being squeezed while money is actually overabundant.

Dollars have been concentrated into a bankrupt banking system to save the day. It is quite a dichotomy, interest rates are down and the U.S. Treasury and banking system has been given a blank check issued by the Fed while at the same time Joe Sixpack has to decide whether to buy rice or pasta to feed his children.

Another way to look at this is that Dollars are very plentiful and are thrown around by government and institutions like they have no value at all while the average person scrimps and scrapes to attain scarce and very valuable Dollars just to survive another day. History will look back on the current time frame and ask how it was possible for this grand lie to last as long as it has since it is (and has been for quite some time now) so obvious that the system is untenable, unstable and bankrupt.

Some little boy in the crowd will point his finger and tell it like it is, The King is buckassed naked!

via www.lemetropolecafe.com

Mon, 02/28/2011 - 23:16 | 1005863 klevera
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The other side of the trade.

One manager was out to say "short precious metals"

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232/?video=1783718443&play=1

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