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Precious Metals Liquidated To Make Room For Alibaba, Silver At Four-Year Lows

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Precious metals are under pressure once again this morning led by Silver which just hit its lowest since August 2010. It appears investors are liquidating precious metals to make room in their 'safe haven' portfolio for precious Ma's Alibaba IPO... because what could go wrong there... (Russell 2000 is also seeing notable liquidation)

What makes us think this is BABA liquidation (obviously tongue-in-cheek but the timing is odd...)

 

As Silver gets relatively slammed...

 

  • *GOLD FALLS 0.8% TO $1,215.82/OZ IN LONDON, LOWEST SINCE JAN. 2
  • *SILVER FUTURES FALL TO $18.125/OZ, LOWEST SINCE AUG. 2010

It seems Russell and Nasdaq positions are also being liquidated for the "can't lose" BABA...

 

The Russell 2000 is now below pre-FOMC levels...

 

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Fri, 09/19/2014 - 13:02 | 5234713 youngman
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Lots of volume in the gold stock I watch and own...CEF...highest volume in a long time....must be those options expire????

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 13:51 | 5234992 SAT 800
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That, and "rotation"; a high volatility price day causes churning.

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 13:03 | 5234721 MansaMusa
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How many shares did "Belgium" buy???

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 13:22 | 5234819 alexcojones
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Wow- GSR for silver (the real stuff not the ETF),

@ 68-1.

Seems like Christmas came early

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 13:25 | 5234836 I Write Code
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Geez, currently trading under $17.92 down over 3.25%, CNBC says low today was $17.85.

Give the dealers a day to absorb this and see if I can find any silver eagles in stock, time to buy a few.  FCX stock has also broken below $34 as an alternative.

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 13:26 | 5234845 edifice
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Woohoo!! Today is pay day... How much better can life get?

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 13:39 | 5234927 Hongcha
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We're at all-in costs here.  I am full-on long, awaiting a bounce.

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 13:53 | 5235002 SAT 800
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I expect prices to rise for the next two weeks. Of course, I'm frequently wrong. but that's what I see.

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 13:50 | 5234968 JPMorgan
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Loving the price action from an accumulation point of view.

The only real question is WHEN to pull the trigger? where are the stops...

A 68:1 ratio is pretty decent.

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 14:04 | 5235048 Bighorn_100b
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I have a limit order in for GDX @ $22.25 GTC. Not saying it's the bottom, but expecting a bounce soon just in case.

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 14:06 | 5235057 bluskyes
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Just speculators selling their positions after betting on a yes vote in Scotland, that didn't materialize.

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 14:39 | 5235228 gcjohns1971
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Thank You Ali-Baba!

BTFD PM's

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 18:09 | 5236035 zipit
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Bump (comments on thread).

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 18:48 | 5236152 Iguana Green
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I hope people read this.
Ali baba buyers are being tricked into giving all their worthless paper currency to the criminals so the criminals can buy up all the gold and silver physical secretly.
paper prices will plummet as this happens. They are buying metal!
if you do not get yours now...you will be destroyed in the end. And the end of this manipulation is soon.
Why are the elite including Soros and Ellison getting out?
Why are they buying gold and silver? This Ali-Baba crap is the perfect trap.

Sat, 09/20/2014 - 01:09 | 5237074 tekmike13
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I'm buying gold at $2 a pound and silver at $1 a pound.........oops! that's next year...
Sat, 09/20/2014 - 02:02 | 5237138 robertocarlos
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Buy and hold until you die and then take it with you.

Sat, 09/20/2014 - 17:26 | 5238792 honestann
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The precious metals are being manipulated lower to create a downer mood before the new asian precious metal exchanges open.  The predators-that-be are worried these new exchanges, which are more oriented towards delivery of physical metal, might create a huge buying spree.  And so, what better way to limit that surge than make everyone feel holding precious metals is "hopeless" and "counterproductive".

For anyone with their eyes open, the manipulators... and [many of] their goals... are fairly obvious.

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