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All of a sudden we see a real slowdown and bad news coming out of China, yet for near decades their numbers have been excellent, so much so, many just say they are fiddled, who knows, certainly not me.

Also China has been a kind of hybrid society, since Mao went to hell, it was no longer 1000 % communist, but it was not a real democracy either, as there was only one party, but at least the members had to move on. The reason given, was that they did not want the chaos of say Russia during the transition period. Meanwhile the economic miracle cruised on and those amazing numbers kept coming.

Now suddenly they are not there, those number. Why ??? Last year Chairman Xi announced he wasn’t going anywhere, in fact he was staying forever. Now if you were yr average Chinaman and you heard that message, you might be a bit disappointed, you might think sod this, what is the point of working my arse off if the Commies ain’t going anywhere and could come and nick everything I’ve got, just like they did in the past. Might you just slow down and not bother anymore.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-18/china-enforces-mandatory-study-xi-jinping-thought

but causa op-ex it’s being sat on…time to buy-if I weren’t so chicken-sh*t, I’d just buy 10K shares of JNUG and quit futzing around with the options…G*d only knows why, but there seems to be no big plunge risk now…the dip buyers are there for every little pullback–gold has sponsorship…

so could see a pretty steep downside-if they are lucky, they’ll be able to just keep it green–then Monday stocks down and gold up…looks like gold’s not zooming up no matter what stocks do today but I may have to buy in anyway…as the rollover seems to be in gear…just in case gold goes counter–es seguro que it won’t plunge with stocks.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ERUT/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN?p=AMZN&.tsrc=fin-srch

no help on an Op Ex day

yeah, Monday might be a good day, last Monday was

I don’t see pm’s or shares holding their gains today though

The last hour could be hairy…I definitely want to have some long side exposure over the weekend…

Looks like the same old to me

They’re going to crush the option holders at $1230 and GLD $116

and , to my surprise, so did gold…if stocks start to roll over and gold follows them down, i may get in again, depending on the set up..I made my lunch money…I sit & wait…

bottoms come and go like a thief in the nite….the low was in feb….this was justa wave 2 pullback……and like the dozen or so ugly corrections since 09 this 2 will pass…..if i would have told u in 09 at 666 that the world wud be still loaded with lunatic bears you would have called me nutz ….well the nut cases are still out there fumbling around……without a clew…….we need them we love them and we cant live without them…..they keep the market equation in balance for the minority bulls…..snort

but the strong opening could be op-ex related–and is typical…if stocks roll over, I’d expect gold to really take off…

Maddog-Buygold—Dec gold is $3 off the overnite high and $5 off the overnight low…shaping up to be an interesting day–

The DAX-CAC hold out hope that stocks roll over later…they aren’t down much but down none-the-less…also the $ is slightly red, down .83

up exactly $3 this am, been this way for the last few days only to be drip sold into the close.

Op Ex makes me think GLD $116 will be defended which would keep us just below the magic number: $1230

Looking forward to the COT Report this afternoon

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/garibaldi-drills-zone-nickel-mountain-183000586.html

Beware of “Yahoo Closure Of Your Account As Been Processed” Phishing Scams

https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/article/2018/4/20/beware-of-yahoo-closure-of-your-account-as-been-processed-phishing-scams/

seems scum Algo was 5 mins late tdy and of course a bid appears in Dollar….$1230 looks like new red line.

Green River!  This is what glacial melt does.
The Canadian crosses the AthabascaRiver.
http://railpictures.net/photo/672533/