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Zeev Hed

03/10/03 9:42 PM

#85264 RE: Babylon #85261

Dan posted an article in which that is explained. My explanation is a little simpler. If you take gold at $250 and the dollar against the Euro at $.80 = 1Euro (the conditions about a year or 18 months ago), and then you take where I think that the dollar will end up bottoming, around $1.18=1 Euro, gold then should be at $369 (when we get to 1.18 which we are not). The market however discounts this move in advance and accentuate it (thus we had a spike to around $391). Now we are simply retracing some of that premature spike. Once the market starts to fear, let say $1.25 or lower for the dollar, another move up in gold maybe even above $400 (but just a spike) may occur, and if the miners make new highs on such a move, it may indicate that the move has further to go, my guess is that for the near future (like a yea or so) the $400 will serve as a barrier, and the miners are just going to attempt their recent highs but not much more. I doubt we go much under the major support at $330 or so either, so we have an excellent trading range to play with here.

Zeev
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mlsoft

03/10/03 11:28 PM

#85288 RE: Babylon #85261

Babylon...

I dunno, and suspect no one does. I took my losses on the trading position in GLG this morning, but with the intent of replacing it with call options basis either April or May, and will get either the GLG or GG calls (GG looks better at the moment) or perhaps a combination of both. The calls give me more leverage with a defined max loss built in, and the premium is not as bad as it was a month or so ago.

My best guess is that the gold stocks are selling on anticipation of a large drop in the price of gold when the Iraq war situation is settled. If that is indeed the case, the play will be to buy the news since gold was going up long before an Iraq war was in the viewfinder of the market, and the real causes of gold's rise have only improved the fundamentals for the yellow stuff.

I should have mentioned that I noticed some of what you mentioned i.e. gold trading with the market rather than against the $USD today.

mlsoft