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Prospects Part 1 of 4

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This weekend, I decided to do still images instead of videos. Showing charts like this takes much, much longer than doing a video, but I know some people prefer it since they can just skim. In any case, the charts this weekend have these things in common:

(1) I am NOT presently short any of these positions, although I intend to be so;

(2) I have tinted in green the zone which the price must not penetrate, since if it does, I will not enter the position (or, if in it, will stop out)

For me, the “big picture” of the massive topping pattern is unchanged, in spite of the sickening rally which ran from February 11th through March 18th:

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Macro Changes and Future Inflation Problems

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macrocosmEver since beginning the ‘Macrosom‘ theme in July (and updating it here), NFTRH has been managing macro changes that would positively affect the gold sector, and quite possibly have a negative effect on broad stock markets. Early on in the precious metals bear market we noted they were “in the mirror” and opposite the stock market, which on the post-2011 cycle has been the beneficiary of the Fed’s inflation, instilling confidence in their policies by conventional market participants (after all, the right assets were going up on this cycle). In August, it appeared that the first real thrust in the direction of our macro theme kicked in as the stock market cracked.

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