Richard640
RE SM and a dump…..He’s dead right…exccept he ain’t ackowledging the scum buying it up as soon as it look even slightly bad……and never liquidating those longs…….why should they the position must be worth Trillions by now…..
except their PM shorts are probably accounting for a good chunk !!!
COT Report – FWIW
The funds look like they’re playing a different game to me in the gold market.
CFTC Commitments of Traders Report – CMX (Futures Only)
Great week. Hope the Capt. is right and the Crimex is breaking. If so, these moves will just get bigger and the 2% rule in gold should go by the wayside. Hope so.
HUI looks good, sitting right at possible resistance. If we correct Monday it would make sense. If the metals are in breakaway mode, then there’ll be no resistance.
Bullcrap!
NYC to settle massive lawsuit because NYPD forced Muslims to remove hijabs for mug shots
That was quite a week for us! I could get used to that.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Mr Copper
I can go on and on about wages but here’s another. If family’s, especially single family makes under a certain amount they can get reduced or free healthcare but for working get reduced health care or could. On top of that could get rental help if lucky with long waiting list now impossible and maybe food stamps. But with wages going up they lose those options and wind up paying more than when they earned less. How convenient for the government. Inflate, pretend how they’re helping people they pushed into poverty after all three deductions not counting car insurance highest in the nation again because of gov according to insurance to get to work plus tax on gas ca ching for government for even going to work now tells the ones eligible sorry you make too much now.
Mr Copper
And remember prez Obamanation. I was done with child care cost and family medical insurance costs that was with everything was 200 month med insurance. It should of went down but with Obozo it went up to 600 a month including life insurance. My daughter in laws insurance was paid by my son but her sister who worked a government medical job no less had to pay 900 a month for her and her son that was apparently less than where her husband worked. Child care, insurance all comes out of your check. That’s all Gov BS.
Mr Cooper
Nope not a sheep, I hope, I was one of those women. In my case I wanted to work though. Maybe not that many hours and not bankers hours or easy on child care, another deduction from your check. But look back at cost of living then plus they didn’t have medical insurance they had to pay part of it even workman’s comp then that I remember, 401k plans they also contribute to.
Oh yeah and paid vacation. So what these chains are doing in these kind of jobs don’t give them full time but like 6 hours shifts. Even at 20 a hour esp 6 hr shifts minus taxes, gas or maybe child care isn’t enough for cost of living here. So both employees and business and add on regulations are getting ripped off by the people causing the inflation to pay the government welfare gravy train for themselves.
goldielocks @ 12:59 Its a transition survival of the fittest lately.
Evidently, the ONLY reason the pizza chain got in business and survived, was with artificially LOW wages. Don’t you think the global deep state engineered the low wages to CREATE cheap replacement jobs to replace off shored jobs? They FORCED wives to enter the workforce. Doubled the workforce with half pay jobs.
Richard
Right, trading hasn’t been sane since it went mechanical. It should be outlawed.
If he doesn’t want to worry about the drop he could day trade or put in trailing stops but it is ridiculous. Like some game and it’s not a game, it’s people’s money they’re messing with like they’re fixing the numbers. That’s how they can get killed to when their auto trades go against them, especially if their short and market gets flooded with buys.
Mr Cooper 12:54
Yep a pizza chain immediately laid of I think over a 100 employees. Plus prices will go up again.
@ipso facto re your problem with raising the minimum wage is that it causes unemployment
” and many fast food workers now are out of a job.” and yes “THOSE WHO RULE THE WORLD taking more and more of the wealth”
Try to understand what a transition is. Its like a change from square to round. The system is trying to right itself from 50-60 years of non sense decisions by idiots. Trying to spread US wealth around the globe. So the trend re wages is they are too low. So there will be pain as things change for the better.
These bozos that were able to even open a McDonalds was because of low wages. My friend opened 8 stores because of low wages. He created 65 retail jobs to replace manufacturing jobs. At the end of his life he had 26 houses. If he was FORCED to pay a livable wage, he would only have maybe 13 houses.
Same with McDonalds. The guy buys one, makes big profits and buys two more, before long he owns 26 McDonalds. If he was FORCED to pay a livable wage, he might own only 12 McDonalds. So its a survival of the fittest situation as things change.
In other words, the system can’t survive anymore. People only have one wife to send to work, no guys have two wives to send out. So the system NEEDS higher wages to eventually get wives OUT of the workforce. By the way, most well run businesses can afford to pay double or triple if they are FORCED to like in 1938.
A sagacious ZH reader posted this:
If you turn all the bots off and all the nonsense of intraday mechanical inane trend following you will be able to have normal consolidation and normal corrections….
Earthquakes in various places
Taiwan, now NY.
I imagine this is just the beginning of what we’re about to see.
Nice strength today, hopefully this is just the beginning as well. Nice to see the shares pick up steam.
Mr Cooper
They said it was felt across the states. The earth is shifting so especially costal states will get them. Have you ever seen a future map of what your state will look like hundreds of years from now?
It’s it’s still on Fox news now and has been non stop. There’s different kinds, shaking, rolling. The was shaking. Bigger shaking gets really loud and thunderous but if you get that you’ll be in a big one so if your by a door just get out fast and away from buildings, power lines or trees. If you can’t take cover. Rolling type is quiet.
That 4.7/8 they can’t decide is just like a trembler. I felt sorry for the woman doing sign language. They’re making a big deal about it because they never had one in their life time. The were naming all these names of different people, many names instead of this or that department and unlike most other things you can sign you have to finger spell out those names. When you see them moving their fingers all around those are letters. At home they can use the first letter of a person you know or relative but not one you don’t know. Well all I can say is that’s one thing they can do well, respond to earthquakes. However with those old buildings if the get a 6 or above it’s gonna be bad. Stay away from and walls that are to the outside in those high rises, they could collapse and you could fall out.
@Maddog Wuff Wuff re your “The Adens have been calling for a PM bull mkt to last into 2026/7…”
“based off previous bulls and how much room their long term indicators have to rise.”
I don’t know anything about the Adens. But by what you said, they don’t really know too much about the system. How can they use previous bull markets for a reference??
They don’t matter anymore. The old system in my view simply started ending long ago and its in a transition. The Fed power is ending and the system is in process of righting itself, its at the end of the trend.
I think Gold could hit $2,600 this year. It really belongs at $2800 today to adjust for inflation of $140 gold in 1974 times 20 which is $2800. Its trying to right itself.
Mr.Copper @ 11:45
The only problem with raising the minimum wage is that it causes unemployment … as seen recently in CA where they raised the min wage to $20 and many fast food workers now are out of a job.
I think much of the problem can be traced back to THOSE WHO RULE THE WORLD taking more and more of the wealth generated in the country. There is less and less for those in the bottom 80%.
Mr.Copper
Re where will it go
The Adens have been calling for a PM bull mkt to last into 2026/7…based off previous bulls and how much room their long term indicators have to rise.
I Posted What Is Below In January 24th
@Buygold re your 20:45 It could be a bottom but where will it go?
I don’t think Silver is the key anymore. Its been lagging gold a long time. If anything, I think gold going higher will drag silver up.
Re your “we’ve been on lockdown for the last 13 years” that trend bottomed in early 2016, and I called it back then at $1160. The next bottom $1622 I called it was around Oct 2022.
The most recent low was around $1845 in September October. and I called that bottom too. And that break out to $2150, convinced me Gold will continue higher above $2100 and we’ll probably never see it below $2000 ever again. Unless the idiots raise rates to 10% plus.
@ipso facto re your young people and the cost of living
Your: If they work and work 2 or 3 jobs and can hardly pay for food and rent and will never be able to afford a house isn’t that a lot like slavery?”
Yes sort of, but in reality slavery provided food medical care and a home. Minimum wage today does not. The young people did very well from 1945 until its peak in 1970. THEN all the IMPORTS started coming in. By 1975 I knew the future was going to be bad.
Minimum wage today needs to be $40 to $50/hr for entry level to move out of the home, buy a car and get married and have kids like I did after graduating high school in 1962. Anybody that bought imported cars was eating apples from the wrong tree.
GOLD $2340
From $250 per oz in 2000 to $2340 today is 10% per year. No property taxes or maintenance. Real estate only runs about 4% a year, plus expenses.
@goldielocks re Quake
I’m about 100 miles east on the south shore of L.I. and it shook my place east and west, by looking at the tv.
Re: young people and the cost of living
If they work and work 2 or 3 jobs and can hardly pay for food and rent and will never be able to afford a house isn’t that a lot like slavery?
goldielocks @ 10:34
That seems to be a new grift for the Blackhawks of the world … buy up all the houses and rent them to the citizens (serfs) If they rent them to illegals on the taxpayers dime then that’s an added bonus.