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Perfect selection!... Useless trivia... Movie was filmed here in Oregon at University of Oregon.
Thanks stoney... Now I'm going to see that guy tonight when I close my eyes!...
That is one creepy dude!!!!!!!!!!
Doing well spoochy [just busy]... Looks like my son and I will be relocating to Florida this summer...
Unfortunately, that means spending the majority of my time during the upcoming holidays getting to all those house repair/fix-up projects that I've put off forever...
Imagine the damage/mess that a single dad and a teenage son can wreak upon a house...
Let me tell ya... it's not pretty [think frat house :0)]
stoney... In your opinoin, is it too late to get in this one?... Don't want to get burned chasing it.
Try to look for a dip after crazy hour or do you think this one is off to the races?
I'm only online sporadically during the day now so I really can't babysit it.
Righteous...bud!!!!
Hey... It's the least I can do :0)
BLLD for me please. Thx
Veterans Day Contest pick SOMX
Right back at ya Smoochy
"were you trading this week?"...
Just today...
Picked up some LOCN at 15 and some MXGD that BBB recommended...
I just saw TEFFY's posting on that board so I know it has to be good :0)
Hate trading "blind" (away from the computer most of the day) but it's too addictive for me to quit
Thanks.. My vicinity could use a good smooching!
REE DD... AK...
Here are a few companies that are operating in this sector, and are not based in China:
•Avalon Rare Metals, Inc. (AVARF.PK) - Projects in Canada
•Great Western Minerals Group (GWMGF.PK) - Projects in Canada, South Africa, and the U.S.
•Hudson Resources, Inc. - Projects in Greenland
•Rare Earth Metals (RAREF.PK) - Projects in Canada
•Commerce Resources Corp. (CMRZF.PK) - Projects in Canada
And of course, there's Molycorp, which has just recently filed to go public. This company is looking to develop operations in Mountain Pass, California, just about 15 miles from the Nevada border.
Molycorp claims that its Mountain Pass mine holds more than two billion pounds of rare earth oxides.
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This Is A Great Explanation Of Rare Earths, And It Should Suck The Air Out Of The Bubble
Joe Weisenthal | Nov. 1, 2010, 10:40 AM
On Thursday, China announced that it would ease export restrictions on highly sought after rare earth metals.
That took some air out of the boom in rare-earth stocks, but the obsession remains with these elements that are used in iPods, wind turbines, and hybrid cards.
So is there really a long-term crisis, and does China really have a death-grip on rare earths?
There are really good reasons to be skeptical of the mainstream thinking.
This presentation from economist Ed Dolan provides the best, most-concise explanation of the issue that we've seen.
It basically comes down to this:
Yes, China does control 95% of rare earth production.
But that's mainly because it has the loosest environmental regulations. They are in abundance all around the world.
Rare earths aren't really that rare... they're more prevalent than gold.
And demand over the long-run is elastic. Companies are in fact finding alternatives to them.
So before you jump into the rare earth ETF to ride the bubble, at least get some background.
Link to this great slideshow...
http://www.businessinsider.com/rare-earth-overview-2010-11#chinas-monopoly-is-fragile-1
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AVNR for me. Thx
AVNR for me please. Thx
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I said "dream" :0)
It's amazing what you can do with photoshop :0)
Why Silver?... (Long Post)...
Here is some information I gathered online regarding silver as a possible stock position.
Since it was originally for my personal use, I just grabbed the info I needed without capturing the URLs or the names of the posters so...
These are not necessarily my opinions and should just be considered the thoughts of the original posters...
This should just be used as a stepping stone to your own DD!
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In 1950, silver companies were maintaining a 10 billion-ounce stockpile.
It dropped to a mere 3 billion as of a few years ago.
And now? Silver’s stockpile has been reduced to a pathetic 140 million ounces – just a four-month supply.
That’s 98.6% less than what was being stockpiled 60 years ago! No other precious metal has experienced a drop anything like it. And with the traditional sources of silver in Nevada, Canada, Mexico, and Peru drying up, silver output isn’t even within sniffing distance of meeting demand.
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For years and years, silver prognosticators and analysts have talked about silver price manipulation. In short, the long-running conspiracy theory is that a handful of global banks have placed massive short-side bets in order to manipulate the price of silver.
Well, it’s not a conspiracy theory anymore.
According to a recent story in Bloomberg,
“At a hearing in Washington on Oct. 27, CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said there have been ‘fraudulent efforts to persuade and deviously control’ silver prices and that violators should be prosecuted.”
If you’re not familiar with the Commodity Futures Trade Commission, they’re the Federal Government body in charge of regulating and monitoring all commodity futures transactions on exchanges in the United States.
They run a pretty tight ship, so it will be surprising if they let any of the offending parties in this manipulation scandal off the hook easily.
So what’s the upside for manipulating silver futures contracts?
It’s a little complicated, but these banks were placing phantom or “spoof” orders on silver contracts with the intention of skewing prices of options contracts.
The effect, allegedly, is that these spoof orders made some options worthless while boosting the value of other options.
In any event, these “spoof” orders had the supposed consequence of keeping silver prices artificially low.
In light of the announcement from the CFTC that they believe the price has been manipulated, I think we can see an additional boost as short-side orders are either canceled and/or filled by the offending parties.
When you take a short side bet and you’re wrong, when the options contract expires, you have to buy the security at current prices. The additional volume usually spikes the price further to the upside.
Now that the CFTC is on the case, I’ll expect silver to continue to make new highs.
Shares of silver are up about 40% so far this year, compared to just over 20% for gold and beating other industrial metals as well as stocks and Treasuries.
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The silver markets have been under investigation for the past three years by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission because some analysts have suspected manipulation of the price of the metal, driving the price down. The accusation is that a few large traders control a majority of the "short" positions in silver futures. According to the CFTC, one third of the net short position in silver futures on the Comex, the New York metals exchange, was held by fewer than four traders.
The Commission had been quiet about its findings, until Tuesday when Bart Chilton, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said in a hearing in Washington D.C., that there have been "fraudulent efforts to persuade and deviously control" the price of silver. The Commission is proposing new rules to prevent manipulation -- which should be a good thing for the silver markets.
New Rules Could Be Good for Silver
While the notion that these new rules could provide more upside potential for silver would be sheer speculation, investors should consider other reasons for why the markets are optimistic about silver.
"Silver could be the investment of the century," says Gregory Marshall, president and CEO of Global Asset Management, a wholesaler of silver, gold, platinum and palladium. One reason comes down to supply and demand. Silver is increasingly being used in hundreds of industrial applications and total demand in 2009 was more than 889 million ounces surpassing supply of 710 million ounces. Another reason: Silver, which is increasingly known as the "green metal" is being used more in water and air purification, as well as the fast growing market for solar energy cells.
Silver also appeals to the average consumer. Smaller investors who don't have enough money to purchase a significant amount of gold, often turn to silver instead. Understandable given that gold now sell for $1,400 an ounce while silver sells for $24 an ounce.
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It's well-known that silver demand is outpacing new supply. But by how much (and what that means) may be a bit surprising.
For one, mining can't keep up with silver demand. Last year's mine production was at 709.9 million ounces – while demand (actual silver use) was 889 million ounces. That gap had to be filled from somewhere, and last year it was covered by sales of government stockpiles and old silver scrap.
But the stockpiles are running out. In 2005 we were worried because silver's above-ground government stockpiles had hit the low mark of 700 million ounces. That was just five years ago... Now it's a lot worse. Last year, net worldwide stocks of silver decreased by another 86% year over year to 20.2 million ounces. That's only enough in the stockpiles to meet eight days' total silver demand.
Nobody's selling scrap either. Silver scrap sales have dropped for three consecutive years and have hit a 13-year low. As the stockpiles disappear, there's no reason to believe scrap sales will fill the gap they leave.
And here's the kicker. We're seeing more and more days where there are buyers who've already bought and paid for physical delivery of silver – yet the seller has none to give them. Decide for yourself, but what that could mean is that the supply is so low that some days it's actually impossible to fill orders.
Without stockpiles and scrap sales to keep up with demand, the only way to stay balanced on the supply-demand tight-rope is to reduce demand.
And you know what that means: a fast increase in silver prices.
But where's the excess silver demand coming from?
Investors, for one, are driving demand for silver. Silver's long been known as "poor man's gold" – a way to invest in precious metals without the high cost per ounce gold brings. Well, more and more investors are being turned on to silver for this very reason – and the investment market for silver is growing at a rapid rate. Net investment demand for silver is up 622% since just 2007.
And this is pure bullion demand – it doesn't even include the demand for coins and collectible medallions.
Calls for Physical Delivery Putting More Pressure on Silver's Price
Both individual and institutional investors are growing unsettled about their paper silver contracts. What once acted as a guarantee for future delivery of silver bullion – and a convenient way to own silver – has now come into question.
Some estimates peg the actual quantity of physical silver at 1-3% of all outstanding contracts. This means that if everyone with a silver contract showed up to take physical delivery tomorrow, at least 97 out of 100 contracts would have no silver to back them up.
Even at a more conservative 10% physical silver availability – or 9 out of 10 contracts being pure paper – we see that there would be a tremendous supply problem if calls for physical delivery were to increase significantly.
As silver's price heats up, I'm hearing more and more demands for physical silver. And it's likely they'll get even louder in the coming weeks.
And it's investment demand that pushes silver prices up fastest.
Compare it to gold or other commodities, and silver's market is relatively small. That means just a little interest goes a long way to shifting the market... Especially when supplies are short.
The imbalance is getting worse, too. Investors have been compounding the "supply-demand tight-rope act" by flooding into silver in the past couple years. In the early 2000s, when silver prices hovered around $5 an ounce, investors hardly paid attention.
Fast forward to the last couple years, and investors who understood silver's market conditions enjoyed serious gains as the price spiked to over $20. Of course, in a choppy market, what goes up also must come down, and silver fell below $10 within months – so only those investors with a good exit strategy or industry expert on their side kept the lion's share of their gains.
When these spikes happen, investors flood into and out of the silver market with irrational exuberance – and because the market's so small, silver's price swings big. And market signals are saying in the coming months we may see a rush into silver like we haven't seen in a long time.
The new silver hoarders are driving demand in a big way, too. Who are these "new silver hoarders?" In short, ETFs. In the last few years, a number of different exchange-traded funds have come on the scene to help investors play silver's market moves inside tax-sheltered retirement accounts, with more liquidity, and without the extra effort of physically handling the stuff.
Well, some of the most attractive silver ETFs earned their reputations (and grew so much) because they actually take physical delivery of one ounce of silver for every share they sell.
With the silver market heating up, these ETFs have started hoarding ever-bigger silver stockpiles to support demand for their shares – adding demand pressure to the silver market and taking significant supply off the market indefinitely. For one, iShares Silver Trust (SLV) has increased its stocks from 20 million ounces on its start date of May 1, 2006, to over 300 million ounces today.
Yet investment demand is just a slice of the overall silver market.
What's also driving core demand, depleting stockpiles, and supporting silver's increasing prices are all of silver's "other" uses we investors often forget about.
Industry, for one, accounts for around 40% of annual silver use. What drives high industrial demand are silver's conductive, reflective, and anti-bacterial qualities that make it useful in batteries, bearings, brazing and soldering, catalysts, various electronics, medical applications, mirrors and reflective coatings, and more. Even the green energy and environmentalist folks are demanding silver and putting it to use in solar cells and water purifiers.
And this is important to note – unlike investing where silver is bought and held, most of these industrial applications "use up" silver and take it off the market for good.
And industry will keep buying even when the price spikes. Because the amount of silver used in each application is so small – and there's no reasonable substitute for silver in many cases – industrial consumers will pay $20, $60, $100, or more per ounce, without any significant reduction in demand. They just absorb the increased cost or pass it on to consumers.
Plus, there are a number of smaller "consumer" markets for silver that are driving demand, eating up stockpiles, and laying claim to new production as it comes out of the ground.
And even silver producers are betting on the price going up – a small 2.5% of silver demand last year was silver producers de-hedging (getting out of fixed-price contracts) so they can take advantage of increased prices of silver.
And every single one of these markets is drawing down on the total supply of silver – and snatching up pretty much every ounce that comes out of the ground.
But that's not all...
How "Quantitative Easing" Is Also Pushing Silver Up
Like gold, silver's price is pushed up quickly when inflation rears its ugly head. And it doesn't have to be current inflation either. If investors so much as expect inflation (like when Bernanke and the Fed announce new "quantitative easing" policies), they flee equities, bonds, and other dollar-based investments to put their money in hard assets like silver.
And investors are finding plenty of reasons to expect inflation today:
Despite numerous head-fakes, it seems this recession isn't going anywhere. Washington doesn't quite know what to do about it, besides spend, spend, spend on "stimulus" and "recovery" packages. Only problem is, the national debt has already blown through the 13-trillion mark (that's over $120,000 per taxpayer – and that doesn't count future liabilities), and nobody's relying on a sudden bout of fiscal responsibility to make that go away. So the Washington solution is to make each dollar worth less – and thus easier to pay back.
Since the start of this recession, money has been created from thin air at an astronomical pace. Just take a quick look at the data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis and you see that at the beginning of the recession (using mid-2008 as a marker) we had a $863 billion monetary base – total money in circulation. Compare that to mid-2010 and there's over $2 billion in circulation – more than double the amount of just a couple years ago. While this isn't showing up in CPI and other key "inflation" indicators (yet), it's a recipe for inflation if I've ever seen one.
And glad-handed politicians, the Fed, and the U.S. Treasury haven't stopped – it seems every month brings a new promise from Bernanke and friends to "do what it takes" to help the economy show signs of recovery. (Even if that means firing up the printing press to afford a buyback of T-bonds and other assets.) Sure, this game has worked before to prop up stock prices. But now even the mainstream media are getting hip to what these policies mean – and investors are looking for a safer place to stash their cash than this see-saw party on Wall Street.
In fact – and you may agree with me – I believe many of these pro-inflation policies have been a large factor in silver's strong push up since November 2008. With the state of today's economy, government debt, and a culture of fiscal irresponsibility, investors are scared what their dollar will be worth in 5 years... 1 year... even 6 months...
So smart investors are using silver as a hedge – to protect their wealth against double-digit inflation like we saw in the 1970s and ‘80s, or the even-worse currency crisis that could hit should inflation get completely out of control.
Here's where things get very interesting.
I mentioned above that silver's price spike could happen anytime soon. And there's good reasons why.
First, remember that silver's market is relatively small – much smaller than gold and oil – and swings easily. A small handful of players can make the market move quickly – speculative capital has always been able to drive big price swings in silver. Just recently we've seen swings giving gains of 53.8% and 22.9%, and drops of 21.9% and 19.6% – all within a period of months and even weeks. And on a day-to-day basis it's not unusual to see spikes and troughs when "Da Boyz" (the big bullion banks) in London and New York start throwing their money around.
Second, it's important to understand how the market is being moved during these price swings. It's all about Da Boyz – the bullion banks, led by JPMorgan Chase – selling shorts and profiting from price drops.
My friend, silver market analyst Ted Butler, described it best in a recent commentary...
"The commercial traders band together and pretend to sell massive numbers of contracts (emphasis on pretend) on the electronic market. This starts the price snowball rolling down the hill and below the key moving averages, at which point the technical funds started selling on a programmed basis, as they always do. Knowing how and when the technical will sell, the commercials then, in a predetermined and cohesive manner, withhold the bids on thousands of silver contracts they want to buy from the tech funds, so they can cover their own short positions. The commercials set their collective bid at much lower prices than they would have normally, in order to maximize their net collective buy points."
Decide for yourself, but this looks like market manipulation in spades to me. Ted goes on to call it like he sees it...
"The tech funds aren’t hedgers by definition and, in fact, neither are the commercials. This is what I mean when I say that this big paper futures trading is setting the price of silver, not discovering it. This is a violation of basic commodity law.
Our futures markets exist to allow risk transfer by real producers and [real] consumers. This COMEX tech fund/commercial paper trading scheme has absolutely nothing to do with hedging silver production or consumption. It is purely an illegitimate private gambling racket that is setting the price of silver for all the real producers and consumers in the world. I’d like to see someone describe it differently."
Third, understand that the CFTC is shutting down the "mechanism" used to profit big from driving the silver price down. Whether or not it's market manipulation that we've been seeing in the silver market, things are about to change – and change big.
The Dodd-Frank Act – the financial reform that was signed into law earlier this year – contained one important provision that should help us independent investors by putting an end to these practices that stink of market manipulation. You see, the reform package requires the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to establish reasonable position limits on trading futures of silver and other commodities. Something Ted (and I) have been in favor of for years.
What does this mean? It would take a full half-year of dedicated silver production to cover these short positions. You only get positions like this when there's significant illegitimate activity going on – not when normal producers and consumers trade based on supply and demand. There's no way these short positions represent a legitimate hedge against future price fluctuation – and that's why the CFTC has been ordered to shut this down.
The CFTC limits have not been put into effect yet – they’ve been in bureaucratic lag for a couple months now. But as soon as they are announced, they'll essentially take away the mechanism Da Boyz have been using to profit from silver's downside swings. As for a timeline for this announcement, we could be talking days or just a few weeks. But whatever the timeline is, it will be sooner than you expect and come out of the blue.
And that's the straw that'll break the camel's back – and send the silver price skyward.
Because the best way left to make significant profits in the silver market will be to bet on the price going UP.
And it appears Da Boyz have gotten the message. JPMorgan – the leader of the pack – has notified the traders on its prop trading desk (the ones who "play" in the silver futures market) that their jobs are in jeopardy – a good sign they're shutting the doors on the operation before the whole house crumbles.
With JPMorgan leading the charge, the sticky fingers that have been holding silver's price down will start to pull out of the market. The pressures pushing the price up will be unleashed. And we'll likely see a mania pushing silver's price up well into triple-digit gains (on top of the gains since the November 2008 low).
We only have to look back to 1979-1980 to the last time the CFTC took a serious look at short-selling and manipulation in the silver market to see what scenario is likely to play out. In just a few months, from late 1979 into early 1980, silver shot from $6 to $48 – that would be from $18 to $144 in today's dollars.
With similar factors in play today, it wouldn't surprise me to see as much as half that action in silver's price – more than triple today's price on silver – once Da Boyz are out of the way and a mania has ensued. And if it goes higher (perhaps matching or exceeding the 8X gains in just a few months from 1979-1980), that wouldn't surprise me much either.
Looking at silver's volatile price history and all the factors discussed above, triple today's silver price in as little as five months is a conservative and well-founded estimate.
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Silver has dominated the commodity and precious metals explosion through 2009 and 2010 with returns that meet and exceed any other precious metal. However, why is silver still a top investment?
For two very important reasons: its volatile supply and its stance as gold's little brother.
Silver's Volatile Supply
As you probably know by now, silver production usually occurs as a result of mining for other metals. Today's miners aren't just going out to the mines to find silver, but instead looking for other metals like copper and gold, and they just happen to bring up silver in the process. This doesn't seem like that much of an important factor, as even the beloved gasoline is a byproduct of oil refining (and was once thrown away!), so it wouldn't seem to be so important that silver is a secondary concern for miners.
However, the fact that silver is a byproduct of other mining interests is very important. The first reason is because the total value of metals mined is only a fraction made up of silver. Because the total value of these metals is only made up of a fraction of silver, a rapid change in silver price does little to influence the amount of metals that are brought to the ground.
Supply cannot in any way, shape or form possibly keep up with demand. When demand for silver increases, so does the price, but the producers, who have a greater financial interest in other metals, cannot bring large supplies of silver to the market unless the numbers for the other metals makes sense. Perhaps the best scenario for silvers value would be a drop in the value of gold, nickel, lead and zinc. If the price of other metals fall, the amount of silver found in tandem with other metals would too.
Little Brother Effect
Silver and gold dominate the scene for stores of value and inflation hedges. However, for many, a proper collection of gold bullion at $1350 an ounce is out of reach, and fractional pieces are marked up 10-20%. So where do these people turn? To silver!
This, I believe, is one of the largest reasons why silver continues to rally higher and higher than other precious metals. While only a few wealthier, or overleveraged, investors can afford to purchase ounce after ounce of gold each and every week, silver investing takes a far smaller toll on an investor's bank account. This proves to be even more true in emerging markets like China and India, where a full ounce bar of gold would be out of reach for most workers, skilled or unskilled.
This effect will become even more prominent with the onset of 1099 reform. Such reform will make all gold coins of a half ounce or greater reportable to the IRS through a 1099 form. However, reaching the same threshold with silver would require the purchase of 24 ounces of coin, a very dramatic difference.
While demand for silver will continue to grow as gold investors swap for untraceable silver, the supply side of the equation will fail to catch up due to silver's secondary status in the hearts of the mining companies. Stock up because the best days are still ahead.
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
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Just How Low Will Silver Correct? - That Could Depend on the Stock Market
By: Przemyslaw Radomski
-- Posted 27 October, 2010 | Share this article| Discuss This Article - Comments: 0 Source: SilverSeek.com
This essay is based on the Premium Update posted on October 22nd, 2010
China is the world’s largest producer of gold, but it has plenty of other precious metals and rare minerals as well. Some in the world are already worried about so much power concentrated in one place.
A Bloomberg Report this week stated that silver exports from China, one of the world's largest, may drop about 40 percent this year as domestic demand from industry and investors climbs. China is the third-largest producer after Peru and Mexico. It is expected that reduced exports will boost prices. Industrial applications for silver, including electrical conductors and batteries, represent about half global demand. Silver has rallied 44 percent this year, outperforming gold and copper.
In addition, China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Japan for the last month, has also halted some shipments to the United States and Europe. These rare earth minerals are crucial to manufacturing many advanced products such as radar, cell phones, high-powered magnets and mini-hard drives in laptop computers. China’s control of them and its willingness to flex its economic muscles seem certain to further intensify trade and currency tensions. The bad news is China mines 95 percent of the world’s rare earth elements. If restriction on exports of these minerals continues, it could force multinational companies to produce more of their high-technology goods in China.
The U.S. Congress is considering legislation to provide loan guarantees for the re-establishment of rare earth mining and manufacturing in the United States. Still, it will take three to five years until these new mines reach full production.
China reduced in July its export quota for rare earths for the second half of the year by 72 percent. Exporters had only six weeks’ of quotas left when China imposed its unannounced embargo on shipments to Japan.
Huge volume levels on upswings after a huge rally is a bearish signal. This was seen in recent days prior to the local top.
Last week, we stated that an RSI level of 55 would indicate a favorable buying opportunity. However, with the bearish sentiment currently in place for the general stock market and gold, the RSI alone is not sufficient to warrant such action. As stated many times in the past, silver’s trend frequently follows stocks due to its industrial uses and it follows gold due to its precious side. The trend of the general stock market must also be considered regardless of the indication gleaned from the RSI.
The week’s short-term chart shows that, as expected, silver reached a local top a short time after the turning point illustrated by the black vertical line in this week’s chart. The next turning point, a local bottom, seems to be about a month away. We expect this will be seen most likely in late November.
Silver’s decline could actually be greater than previously projected due to the fact that its recent rally exceeded expectation as well. Its reaction to other markets will likely determine the ultimate bottom for the current downswing. The general stock market trend in the coming weeks will have a significant impact upon how low silver’s price declines.
Summing up, silver’s price is likely to move higher eventually but numerous indications point towards price declines before we see any rallies in the future.
Having said that, let's move to the analysis of the precious metals mining stocks.
In this week’s HUI (gold mining stocks index) Index chart, support levels have been reached. The 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level and the 50-week moving average are in play. The decline has paused at medium-term support levels and is currently close to a declining support line. If gold’s price declines further and additionally stocks move lower, mining stock index levels will likely fall as well.
In a recent Market Alert sent to our Subscribers, we discussed the possibility for Traders to bet on lower prices using options. Lower prices in mining stocks may be the way to go due to their lower volatility. Their close trading range has caused a decline in option premiums.
Summing up, it is likely that mining stocks will eventually rally but we will probably first see a corrective period. Lower prices are likely to be seen in the short-run with a rally to follow perhaps before the end of the year.
Thx... gave you #330 :0)
Thx for the Person Marks everyone...
Congrats to timmage for his monster win!
GLTA next week
AK
Stoney... Silver Streamer...
I added: CZICF,USSIF,AXU,EXK,SHSH,SRLMQ,SLW,CDE,MPRXF,SSRI,PAAS, and MGN
I also trimmed off a little of the dead weight.
I'll post the updated streamer in the next post.
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Thx stoney... But gotta give credit where credit is do...
You did all the work...
I just copied it :0)
Plus, your name gives it credibility...
I say we leave it just like it is.
AK
Off to my son's soccer practice...
Then home to change clothes...
and off to an orchestra recital...
He plays a mean cello.
So, insanity will reign tonight without me.
Have fun!
AK