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  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gen-X money managers chasing the FAANG stocks. BTW FAANG stocks account for 50% of stock market gains. A rotation in PM's stock may be genius or suicide.

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @metalmeister said:
    Gen-X money managers chasing the FAANG stocks. BTW FAANG stocks account for 50% of stock market gains. A rotation in PM's stock may be genius or suicide.

    FAANG stock managers have done extremely well for several years...Kudos to them. Rotation into PM's? Possible, but I doubt it.

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 13, 2018 9:16AM

    "How low will it go ?"

    It will follow the declining currencies that are boosting the dollar. Look for lower in the short term.

    FWIW, the recent Commitment of Traders (COT) report indicates stronger gold prices are on the way.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Everyday I go on Kitco expecting green and all I get is red. Oh well, time to buy more I guess.

  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,788 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, an opportunity.
    I am a long-term guy, after all.
    Added 400 oz's of AG this afternoon.......

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 13, 2018 12:56PM

    @derryb said:

    @cohodk said:
    @derryb said:

    "How low will it go ?"

    It will follow the declining currencies that are boosting the dollar. Look for lower in the short term.

    Yes, of course, because the currency of a country that has a GDP less than the value of Apple or Amazon or Google, or Microsoft, will surely influence the US dollar.

    BTW...the value of goods that Walmart sells is equal to about 60% of all the goods and services produced by Turkey.

    Or maybe since we are in the midst iof baseball season, we should say the Boston Red Sox are good because the Orioles are so bad.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • TomaToma Posts: 58 ✭✭✭

    @cohodk said:
    Yes, of course, because the currency of a country that has a GDP less than the value of Apple or Amazon or Google, or Microsoft, will surely influence the US dollar.

    BTW...the value of goods that Walmart sells is equal to about 60% of all the goods and services produced by Turkey.

    Or maybe since we are in the midst iof baseball season, we should say the Boston Red Sox are good because the Orioles are so bad.

    Turks and Iranians are beginning to abandon their currency in favor the of the USD. Erdogan has been begging citizens to sell their gold/USD and buy Lira. Chances are the ME will not be trading in Lira or Iranian Rial. This greatly strengthens the Dollar's influence as the only real contenders in the ME now are the USD and Saudi Riyal. The reconstruction of Iraq is going to be extremely profitable and Turkey and Iran are no longer in a position to lead those efforts.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,092 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Who said turkey before now anyway.

    The dollar index has been going up like it's high on helium. Those are first world currencies.

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,092 ✭✭✭✭✭




    on the left:
    euro on top, lower means stronger dollar
    pound on bottom, lower means stronger dollar
    swiss franc center top, higher means stronger dollar
    Canadian dollar center bottom, higher means stronger dollar
    yen right top, higher means stronger dollar
    Swedish kroner right bottom, higher means stronger dollar

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,092 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 14, 2018 11:29AM

    the dollar has moved considerably stronger against the euro and pound.

    10 euro cent is a big move.
    14 pence is a big move.

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  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The dollar rises because post-WWII, we established an international reputation for favoring international conventions/agreements and monitoring institutions. We did that appreciating some loss of short term gain in favor of long-term international stability and movement toward classical liberal values in other places.

    Of course, exploiting international confidence and trust in the dollar and in our devotion to international conventions will bring massive short term gain. But the erosion in international confidence as a result of such exploitation invariably means that internationals will move to mitigate exposure to the dollar down the line.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,828 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nothing like a world wide currency crisis to salvage a particular currency. Engineered via recent economic and political policy? And how long can it last?

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • coinpalicecoinpalice Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭✭✭

    down another 7 dollars in overnight trading. short selling with the pm prices this low seems risky

  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How is the dollar gaining? My dollars don't buy the same amount of goods as 10 years ago, at least I don't think so. Gas is $3 bucks a gallon for the 87, home heating fuel is $2.50 a gallon, my taxes have gone up, so hasn't homeowners and car insurance. I thought oil and PM's were closely tied when PM's go down so doesn't oil/fuel?

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  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 15, 2018 2:21AM

    @MsMorrisine said:
    the dollar has moved considerably stronger against the euro and pound.

    10 euro cent is a big move.
    14 pence is a big move.

    -#Americastrong

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • shinywhiteshinywhite Posts: 346 ✭✭✭

    I've never seen silver this low before. Maybe buy some xtra silver, but I really would like to own some gold.

  • sumrtymsumrtym Posts: 394 ✭✭✭

    @shinywhite said:
    I've never seen silver this low before. Maybe buy some xtra silver, but I really would like to own some gold.

    Pffff....I remember it under five for a LOOONG stretch. I've been saying since 28 it's going to under 10. I'm just surprised it's taking so long to get there.

  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,471 ✭✭✭✭

    Trump dollar going all #METOO on Commodities.


    Loves me some shiny!
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,391 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll admit breaching sub 15 for silver had me looking...

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is beginning to sound like all my ...SILVER.... buyers in the shop.

    Always hopeful....always wrong.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,828 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1135 for a bottom? Hope so, sitting on a bunch of DUST (up 18% today) and looking to buy more silver.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,788 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Quite a morning.....I used to get a stomach ache, now I realize this is just a temporary thing, and an opportunity.
    At least until I run out of money......

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm still amazed as to the number of PM buyers that are still trying to "catch a falling knife." I'll continue to wait until or when the market turns around. I won't be catching the bottom, but my hand will not be bloodied. B)

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  • VanHalenVanHalen Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @shinywhite said:
    I've never seen silver this low before. Maybe buy some xtra silver, but I really would like to own some gold.

    Was $9 less than 10 years ago. Anybody remember the fall of 2008? What a Fall it was.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,092 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OPA said:
    I'm still amazed as to the number of PM buyers that are still trying to "catch a falling knife." I'll continue to wait until or when the market turns around. I won't be catching the bottom, but my hand will not be bloodied. B)

    I need a tourniquet
    :'(

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,092 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VanHalen said:

    @shinywhite said:
    I've never seen silver this low before. Maybe buy some xtra silver, but I really would like to own some gold.

    Was $9 less than 10 years ago. Anybody remember the fall of 2008? What a Fall it was.

    I'll back up the truck at under $10

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  • coinpalicecoinpalice Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭✭✭

    sounds like 1,130 could be the bottom

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,147 ✭✭✭✭✭

    _#INSURANCE

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 15, 2018 12:34PM

    @OPA said: I'm still amazed as to the number of PM buyers that are still trying to "catch a falling knife." I'll continue to wait until or when the market turns around. I won't be catching the bottom, but my hand will not be bloodied. B)

    Yup, completely true. Looks like there's blood on the sidewalk, but not quite to the streets. When the sentiment is this negative, it's hard to justify spending money on metals. I just got a shipment from Apmex a few minutes ago. ;)

    If I had no regular income and was already retired, I'd be coasting. Regardless, I see no particular reason to be in a hurry to either buy or sell. Cash management and budgeting is the key. And tax management.

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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 15, 2018 12:42PM

    @MsMorrisine said: I'll back up the truck at under $10

    There won't be anything left on the loading dock at $10. :)

    @MsMorrisine said: the dollar has moved considerably stronger against the euro and pound.

    10 euro cent is a big move.
    14 pence is a big move.

    Looks like the currency markets are making their adjustments to what is being perceived as new US trade policy. What isn't known is where the equilibrium lies after the adjustments are made, and whether or not there will be some market failures due to liquidity along the way.

    Nevertheless, it's probably better to have some dollars now than not. Keeping some powder dry, but always remember what dollars are - a debt instrument.

    We haven't seen what destruction can happen because of debt mismanagement now for 90 years. Tread lightly.

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  • Weather11amWeather11am Posts: 2,042 ✭✭✭

    I bought 5 $14 puts on SLV 9/21 expiry on Monday and sold them today. We’ll see if that was the right move. Also had a $20 GDX put that I sold as well. I still have a GDX $22 call, 10/19 expiry which I’m down a ton on.

    I’m not mentioning my other Robinhood option trading which, in general, has been bad.

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Options trading. You do know that you're up against the HFT odds when you trade options, don't you?

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  • coinpalicecoinpalice Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭✭✭

    .the $US evaluation is too high creating an unsustainable exchange rate relative to all other fiat currencies. This will create issues when foreign debt comes due and emerging economies, all slowing down, can no longer afford to pay off their loans. Turkey, Argentina, Venezuela are experiencing double if not triple digit inflation. It will be Turkey x 50. Definitely adding to destabilizing much of the world's currency exchanges. (gold bullish) The only answer left for these foreign currencies from tanking any lower and stop out of control escalating inflation is to peg their currencies on a gold standard. The US feds easing back on interest rate increases will also be bullish for gold but I doubt that will happen given the current economic pick up. Until the US economy is crippled by a slow down based on an overvalued dollar the feds will stay their course. What goes up must go down.

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dumb website, I clicked "lol" by accident when I was contemplating your post, coinpalice - and I couldn't back it out.

    You make some good observations. The question is what's gonna happen to the US dollar as a reserve currency. The stronger dollar is certainly a motivation to move away from it, but that simply means that trade will slow down considerably, and it also means that more dollars are going to be coming back home, causing potential liquidity problems abroad.

    It's going to get interesting. Trade is being re-negotiated. Debt is being re-negotiated. I think it means that the US engines of production will have to gear up, and that we'll see some real cascading financial problems all across the globe. The US won't be immune, especially considering both public & private debt loads.

    My concern is that we aren't nearly as self-reliant as the country was when we were kids. People and countries don't like being held to account when all they've ever known is easy money. Maybe it'll all work out. I simply don't know about that.

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    I knew it would happen.
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  • LukeMarshallLukeMarshall Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmski52 said:
    Dumb website, I clicked "lol" by accident when I was contemplating your post, coinpalice - and I couldn't back it out.

    Click the Lol again and it should reverse the move.

    I just tested it on mobile and it worked for me.

    It's all about what the people want...

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,828 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The economic contagion has begun, this time outside of the US. How long before it spreads to the US? Economic crisis, as demonstrated the last time is now a world wide event. The price of a global economy.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,828 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nomi Prins explains how rising dollar rates are ruining emerging markets that borrowed in dollars. The result is a strengthening US dollar and a possible delay in raising rates further.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

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  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,147 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1970s said:
    Did anyone see GDX on Friday ? Up 3% on 3x normal volume.

    Volume 108,432,904
    Avg. Volume 36,293,887

    What was the volume on Thursday? ;)

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cohodk said:

    @1970s said:
    Did anyone see GDX on Friday ? Up 3% on 3x normal volume.

    Volume 108,432,904
    Avg. Volume 36,293,887

    What was the volume on Thursday? ;)

    8/15..........127.55M
    8/16...........78.68M

    B)

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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Higher volumes = lots more people with a stronger opinion than usual. What else does it mean?

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    I knew it would happen.
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,391 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm sure it will go lower - I bought some last week, ha!

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 24, 2018 11:46PM

    The short term direction of interest rates has more influence on gold than does the dollar. Like the dollar, short term rates have an inverse affect on gold prices. Until FED tightening turns the economy downward, and it will, gold will continue to be a bargain. As always, watch what the FED does, not what is says it is going to do. Perception is 90% of investor sentiment. FED mouthpieces try very hard to influence perception.

    We are in the middle of economic warfare with our major trading partners. There are no winners, only those who lose the least. Unless you completely destroy your opponents currency and economy it is a zero sum game. Administration wants a weaker dollar - they will get it, if not from the FED, through their war.

    Weaponizing the US Dollar Is Accelerating Global De-Dollarization

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

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  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    +17 on pog, who sold? :p

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