Can only blame me for 25% of the percentage loss...5K/20K = 25%Larshus wrote: Correction. 20,000 contracts were dumped in under a second.
The GOLD scream room
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool" --Feynman.
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Budd:
We do feel your pain
But,if we get out,gold and TLT will catch a huge bid.
If we stay in, it just melts .
This will pass...
We do feel your pain
But,if we get out,gold and TLT will catch a huge bid.
If we stay in, it just melts .
This will pass...
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I'm ready for some rebalance therapy. If it would go down a bit more, I will buy in.
The nagging question is, how will I feel if I'm buying in yet again when & if it goes well under 1000?
The nagging question is, how will I feel if I'm buying in yet again when & if it goes well under 1000?

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I guess some people actually thought that the government was going to stop spending a trillion dollars more than they brought in by taxes. Otherwise it's pretty hard to explain the move today.
Anyway, yee haw!
Anyway, yee haw!
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Yee ha?
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Not a bad day for the PP in general, either:


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Libertarian666, what is your rationale for holding GDX? I have a 5.5% allocation to the ETF in a VP and am trying to determine whether to hold the asset class given my already substantial investment in GLD.Libertarian666 wrote: Yee ha?
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I think you must be confusing me with someone else. I don't have any GDX.buddtholomew wrote:Libertarian666, what is your rationale for holding GDX? I have a 5.5% allocation to the ETF in a VP and am trying to determine whether to hold the asset class given my already substantial investment in GLD.Libertarian666 wrote: Yee ha?
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My sincerest apologies. A member of this forum is invested entirely in GDX and GLD, but I don't recall their username.Libertarian666 wrote:I think you must be confusing me with someone else. I don't have any GDX.buddtholomew wrote:Libertarian666, what is your rationale for holding GDX? I have a 5.5% allocation to the ETF in a VP and am trying to determine whether to hold the asset class given my already substantial investment in GLD.Libertarian666 wrote: Yee ha?
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Sure, no problem.buddtholomew wrote:My sincerest apologies. A member of this forum is invested entirely in GDX and GLD, but I don't recall their username.Libertarian666 wrote:I think you must be confusing me with someone else. I don't have any GDX.buddtholomew wrote: Libertarian666, what is your rationale for holding GDX? I have a 5.5% allocation to the ETF in a VP and am trying to determine whether to hold the asset class given my already substantial investment in GLD.
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Looks good today too!
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And yet another day of the PP beating both the SP500 index and a 60/40 portfolio...Libertarian666 wrote: Looks good today too!

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I'll say it's a good day! According to Yahoo Finance, my holdings in VOO are up 100.46% on the day. Should I be happy that my stock fund is beating its index, or unhappy that it's not tracking terribly well? :-P
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but VOO had a share split today, so the share price doubled, but the number of shares you own dropped by 50%.Xan wrote: I'll say it's a good day! According to Yahoo Finance, my holdings in VOO are up 100.46% on the day. Should I be happy that my stock fund is beating its index, or unhappy that it's not tracking terribly well? :-P
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Sounds like a reverse split, right?
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Getting closer...AlanT wrote:I'm pretty sure you're just being facetious here, but I don't think we'll ever see $750 gold again. However, anything close and I'll sell the farm and load up.dualstow wrote:Next week?annie in another thread wrote:Dennis Gartman says GOLD looksto be headed several hundred dollars higher.
He generally knows about these things.
Or perhaps after dropping to 750 for 13 years?
That's what I want to know.
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recent Jim Sinclair interview to ease any sickness from gold loses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEYCebsN3J4
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Did anyone else grab any gold today? Seemed like a good day so I pulled the trigger on some coins. Hopefully they get here instead of being lost/stolen like all of my other coins that I don't have.
You there, Ephialtes. May you live forever.
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For the past few days, my google calendar has shouted at me, "Buy gold?" I keep dragging the same event one day forward.Kriegsspiel wrote: Did anyone else grab any gold today? Seemed like a good day so I pulled the trigger on some coins. Hopefully they get here instead of being lost/stolen like all of my other coins that I don't have.
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Do you use a signature delivery from a big coin dealer or a local coin shop?Kriegsspiel wrote: Did anyone else grab any gold today? Seemed like a good day so I pulled the trigger on some coins. Hopefully they get here instead of being lost/stolen like all of my other coins that I don't have.
Or are these lost to Davey Jones locker?
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Yes, it was an unfortunate accident.
You there, Ephialtes. May you live forever.
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Didn't kriegspiel go on a cruise?Bean wrote:Do you use a signature delivery from a big coin dealer or a local coin shop?Kriegsspiel wrote: Did anyone else grab any gold today? Seemed like a good day so I pulled the trigger on some coins. Hopefully they get here instead of being lost/stolen like all of my other coins that I don't have.
Or are these lost to Davey Jones locker?
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Ok, after watching the price today, I guess it's time to take anti-nausea pills. 

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Not exactly a scream, but so far this year, so good:

And surely a lot better than the stock market this year. Somehow I don't think we'll be seeing too many gold bashing threads on bogleheads any time soon at this rate...

And surely a lot better than the stock market this year. Somehow I don't think we'll be seeing too many gold bashing threads on bogleheads any time soon at this rate...
Re: The GOLD scream room
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ........... $2,000 gold