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๐—š๐—ข๐—Ÿ๐——'๐—ฆ ๐—ฅ๐—ข๐—จ๐—š๐—› ๐—ฅ๐—œ๐——๐—˜ - ๐—”๐—ก๐—— ๐—ช๐—›๐—ฌ ๐—œ๐—ง'๐—ฆ ๐—” ๐—š๐—ข๐—ข๐—— ๐—ง๐—›๐—œ๐—ก๐—š ๐Ÿ† The last few days in precious metals have been nothing short of spectacular. $GOLD has been my largest position for the last year, surged to record highs above $5,600 before crashing around 10% on Friday. Silver fell even harder, dropping about 30% in a single day, and now dip buyers are stepping back in. The rally got overheated. Too many speculators piled in using leverage - essentially borrowed money to make bigger bets. When everyone bets the same way and uses borrowed money to do so, the market becomes fragile. It's like a game of musical chairs where everyone suddenly realizes there's only one chair left. And the music stopped on Friday. The trigger was the news that Kevin Warsh would be nominated as the next Federal Reserve Chair. He's known for being tough on inflation, which sent the dollar higher and spooked the gold speculators. Suddenly, all those leveraged traders wanted out at once. In reality, ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด - the gold and silver markets were just waiting for an excuse to change direction. When you use leverage, and the market moves against you, your broker forces you to sell - whether you want to or not. This is called a margin call. And when everyone is forced to sell at the same time, prices don't just fall โ€” they crash. Crashes like this flush out the weak hands. The momentum chasers, the over-leveraged speculators, the people who were only in gold because it was going up - they're now gone. What remains are the ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด-๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ผ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ต๐˜† ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ in the first place. The fundamentals haven't changed. Central banks around the world continue to buy gold at a historic pace as they diversify away from the dollar. This structural demand isn't going away because of one volatile week. I've held $GLD (SPDR Gold) as my largest position over the last year, as I believe in the case for precious metals for the next few years. If you look at my trading history, you'll notice I sold several gold positions in the afternoon of January 28th to lower risk, just before the peak. Yesterday, I bought some of it back at lower prices, and, thanks to this risk management, the volatility in gold turned out to be a small bump in the road for my portfolio, barely noticeable. Timing is never perfect, but reading the market and reacting when things get overheated is part of active portfolio management for me. Days like Friday are uncomfortable. But they're also part of investing. If you can handle the volatility, you're in a much better position than those who were forced out while the market was in free fall. The speculators who created the bubble are now licking their wounds. The patient investors who stayed calm are being rewarded as dip buyers step back in. This is how markets work. Thanks for copying and following ๐Ÿ™ $PPFB.DE (iShares Physical Gold ETC) $AU (AngloGold Ashanti Ltd-ADR) $GFI.US (Gold Fields Ltd-ADR) ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜บ ๐˜›๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ. ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ. ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฌ.
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