"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •802 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,777.60 | -20.00 | -1.11% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 102.85 | +2.80 | +2.80% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 3.348 | +0.041 | +1.24% |
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Ethanol •802 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •802 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 802 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 802 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 107.35 | +2.74 | +2.62% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.894 | +0.063 | +2.23% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 5.008 | +0.049 | +0.99% |
Markets / Other
Trends for 2008
The year 2007 was marked by pessimism, doom and gloom, and a never-ending fusillade of fear. The mainstream press never tired of hypnotizing into believing the stock market would collapse,…
Gold Thoughts
GOLD WINS! PAPER EQUITIES LOSE! The headlines for investing in 2007, and the previous ten years, can now be written. Forget all the other drivel about what happened in the…
Tracking Portfolios at Year-End 2007
Trades in these systems are tracked live, with moves and analysis announced before action is taken, and the systems are mechanical in nature. Returns for each system are reviewed in…
Dec 2007 Returns
These are my current personal positions, along with portfolio weight, as of Monday, December 31, 2007... I'm holding NO cash. I am approximately 100.046% long, I had a little more…
Will The Truly Efficient Market Please Stand Up?
Although maybe it always seems this way, but it sure feels to us as if we're entering 2008 with some of the most pressing issues for the financial markets and…
2007 Wrap-Up
The year was remarkable for the unusual divergences between bursting Bubbles and others continuing to inflate. This was the case both domestically and globally. As an example, the U.S. KBW…
Taxes, Money and Surpluses: Fact and Fiction
Let us make this so simple that even a journalist can understand it. If tax cuts are offset by cuts in government spending aggregate spending remains unchanged. If the cuts…
Merv's Non-Edibles Futures Page
Weekly Technical Information and Ratings
Technically Precious with Merv
Boy, you take a few days off and all hell breaks loose. Gold seems ready for new highs and the US $ for new lows. Let's take a quick look.
2008 Resolved
The otherwise irrational markets in which one elects to speculate, in fact - behave in a rational and predictable fashion if one knows how (or is shown how) to properly…
