The GOLD scream room

Discussion of the Gold portion of the Permanent Portfolio

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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by dualstow » Fri Feb 09, 2018 3:07 pm

ochotona wrote:Miners at 52 week lows
How many meters down are they?
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by eufo » Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:45 pm

dualstow wrote:
ochotona wrote:Miners at 52 week lows
How many meters down are they?
Lol! So bad...
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by PP67 » Fri Feb 09, 2018 5:20 pm

This may to satisfy anyone here as well but here is some more food for thought...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... s-sold-off
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by ochotona » Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:53 pm

PP67 wrote:This may to satisfy anyone here as well but here is some more food for thought...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... s-sold-off
That's pretty sad if people are so highly levered that the first real correction in a while jams them up.
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by dualstow » Sat Feb 10, 2018 7:29 am

Desert wrote: Investors have very short memories.
So true
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by ochotona » Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:02 am

Jesse Felder: Gold Fireworks on the Horizon

"The gold price has risen about 20% since I wrote “It’s Time To Get Greedy In The Gold Market” but it looks to me like it could now get really exciting for gold bulls.

On the weekly chart there is now a clear head and shoulders bottom pattern in play. A break above the neckline would confirm the pattern and project an eventual target near $1,650. There is also a very interesting price analog from 2008-2009 (hat tip, @ECantoni) that suggests this breakout could be imminent."
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by Kriegsspiel » Sat Feb 10, 2018 7:13 pm

You know, I've been seeing a belt whisker contraindicator for gold the past few weeks, but it hasn't triple nippled yet, I'm hoping the dandruff shakes off the head and shoulders for all us gold investors soon, know what I'm saying?
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by dualstow » Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:09 pm

O0
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by PP67 » Tue Feb 13, 2018 1:47 pm

"A break above the neckline" sounds like a hanging of gold investors... not to be confused with the usual guillotine approach...
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by dualstow » Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:33 pm

Gold's teasing us again today. O0
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by eufo » Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:13 pm

dualstow wrote:Gold's teasing us again today. O0
Don't worry, it'll lose all those gains at the open tomorrow and then chill all day to hold the loss.
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by Libertarian666 » Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:58 pm

eufo wrote:
dualstow wrote:Gold's teasing us again today. O0
Don't worry, it'll lose all those gains at the open tomorrow and then chill all day to hold the loss.
I certainly hope so. I'm waiting for a sizable cashout to buy more!
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by buddtholomew » Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:09 pm

First hint of inflation and gold runs like a coward.
I’m even eating on a yellow plate at my favorite buffet.
Gold is leading stocks and bonds YTD, but International investments are the winner with the USD falling.
Gold is up 3+% but that’s not very much.
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by ochotona » Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:23 pm

buddtholomew wrote:First hint of inflation and gold runs like a coward.
I’m even eating on a yellow plate at my favorite buffet.
Gold is leading stocks and bonds YTD, but International investments are the winner with the USD falling.
Gold is up 3+% but that’s not very much.
YTD isn't relevant... it's only been a few days. Look at 12 month performance. It's done better than bonds over the last year.
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by buddtholomew » Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:45 am

Well can’t say I didn’t tell you so...
First hint of inflation and gold disappears.
Wonderful day for the PP.

Look at her go, thank god I only have 25% in each asset class since they are all going down together...hmm

70/30 down 0.40%
PP down 0.90%
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by Mr Vacuum » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:10 pm

buddtholomew wrote:Well can’t say I didn’t tell you so...
First hint of inflation and gold disappears.
Wonderful day for the PP.

Look at her go, thank god I only have 25% in each asset class since they are all going down together...hmm
Told who what now? Last I recall you were voicing unrealistic expectations for gold in light of its actual, well understood relationship to stocks and bonds and a few people were gently reminding you of various facts, such as that zero correlation is not the same thing as the negative correlation you seem to expect, that no one ever promised the assets cancel each other out on a daily basis, that gold is up YTD and for the past year, and that gold was the top asset in two out of the past five decades, one as recently as one decade ago.

By the way, what ever happened to your strategy to buy and sell gold regularly based on its awfulness being so predictable?
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by Ugly_Bird » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:24 pm

buddtholomew wrote:Well can’t say I didn’t tell you so...
thank god I only have 25% in each asset class
That's the idea, right? :-)
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by buddtholomew » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:55 pm

Mr Vacuum wrote:
buddtholomew wrote:Well can’t say I didn’t tell you so...
First hint of inflation and gold disappears.
Wonderful day for the PP.

Look at her go, thank god I only have 25% in each asset class since they are all going down together...hmm
Told who what now? Last I recall you were voicing unrealistic expectations for gold in light of its actual, well understood relationship to stocks and bonds and a few people were gently reminding you of various facts, such as that zero correlation is not the same thing as the negative correlation you seem to expect, that no one ever promised the assets cancel each other out on a daily basis, that gold is up YTD and for the past year, and that gold was the top asset in two out of the past five decades, one as recently as one decade ago.

By the way, what ever happened to your strategy to buy and sell gold regularly based on its awfulness being so predictable?
If Gold's relationship to stocks and bonds is so well understood, then that is news to me.
Being invested in the portfolio since 2011, I can tell you Gold and LTT's are nothing but a drag on performance.
Even on the occasion that Stocks decline >10%, one should expect Gold and LTT's to go lower as well.
I have had blinders on myself hoping that the PP was the answer, but from experience I can tell you it is not.
You may get lucky and the portfolio saves you during the next crisis but I doubt it.
Chances are you would have already lost a significant amount in the assets you hold for that very scenario.
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by buddtholomew » Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:33 pm

Ugly_Bird wrote:
buddtholomew wrote:Well can’t say I didn’t tell you so...
thank god I only have 25% in each asset class
That's the idea, right? :-)
UB, you cut-off the most relevant point...25% in each asset class doesn't save you if they are all falling together.
Case in point, my 70/30 BH allocation only fell .40% today whereas my version of the PP fell .90%
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by Ugly_Bird » Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:05 pm

buddtholomew wrote: my 70/30 BH allocation only fell .40% today whereas my version of the PP fell .90%
Today? Why did you even looked at that today?
If it is not close to any rebalance limits, there is no need to look neither today nor tomorrow. The longer - the better.
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by buddtholomew » Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:23 pm

Ugly_Bird wrote:
buddtholomew wrote: my 70/30 BH allocation only fell .40% today whereas my version of the PP fell .90%
Today? Why did you even looked at that today?
If it is not close to any rebalance limits, there is no need to look neither today nor tomorrow. The longer - the better.
You might as well hold 100% stocks if you never look, it has the highest expected return.
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by eufo » Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:54 pm

buddtholomew wrote:You might as well hold 100% stocks if you never look, it has the highest expected return.
Put everything in AAPL. It's the largest market cap stock out there but has crushed the overall market for years.

Seriously, though, the PP is about as stable an allocation as one could ever hope for. Day to day moves mean zilch. If you look at the 4 prongs from Jan 24th through today, Cash is the leader, with Gold in second. Sorry it fell today, but it's still beating both stocks and bonds during this correction.

You need to chill, dude.
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by Mr Vacuum » Wed Feb 21, 2018 6:57 am

Budd, you frequently tout with confidence statistics and historical perspectives showing the superior long run performance of stocks as justification for their proper use in a portfolio. Have you asked yourself why you have such trouble accepting statistics on gold that form the long term basis for its inclusion in the PP?

It's one thing to come in here and complain about gold: this is the scream room for that. But it's another thing to insist that the portfolio is broken because it goes down some days. Gold is the most volatile asset in the portfolio. It is not correlated with the other assets. It is going to go down at times that are inconvenient.

Perhaps we have no recourse but to convince Fidelity to release a newsletter stating the probability of different assets going down in the same day, month, and year to prove that it’s possible and expected.
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Re: The GOLD scream room

Post by sophie » Wed Feb 21, 2018 7:31 am

Budd, I think you are confusing day to day fluctuations with meaningful trends. There is a reason why momentum investors use histories of 3 or 6 months to determine trend lines. That's the length of time needed to obtain a stable curve.

Please please please, for your sanity (and ours), stop checking prices every day. Check your portfolio every 3 months, and enjoy the rest of your life in the meantime!
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