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This report started out like any other. A geek doing his geek-like thing, managing what has been a thus far successful market phase. But as the report wore on, my views got right-sized in real time. I have not edited (other than grammar and some untoward wording, etc. and the italicized summary inputs) anything, so as to leave the progression of my learning on the fly intact for your review. It is published publicly with slight edits and certain actionable subscriber content redacted.
(more…)Note: Never will you read one word of my material that has been edited or altered, let alone written by, AI. It is unfortunate that this even needs to be stated, but it’s out there, folks. Content written by machines. Outside of ‘quant’, you cannot automate real market analysis.
Harken back, if you will, to a time some hazy years ago that I sold Nvidia too soon and neglected to buy it back on its long journey upward, leading the Semiconductor bubble to come by a country mile. I since traded it a couple times, but the real money had been made by others.
(more…)Before beginning this article, it is time to introduce a short note to precede my posts:
Never will you read one word of my material that has been edited or altered, let alone written by, AI. It is unfortunate that this even needs to be stated, but it’s out there, folks. Content written by machines. Outside of ‘quant’, you cannot automate real market analysis.
Gold’s utility includes…
This is not Grandpa’s macro, and these are not Grandpa’s commodities. The traditional commodity complex has shifted to more critical status, amplified by progressing technology, and it probably goes without saying, global trade tensions/wars.
We are in the next phase, whereby gold led (as usual) all markets in H1, 2025, silver then took over from gold (Silver/Gold ratio exploded upward) and the positive market effects spread to commodities, and in our particular area of interest, critical or strategic commodities (like Cu, Ni, Li, REE, u3o8, etc.).
(more…)While I am a gold bug, I am not a narrowly focused bug. In the markets I want to increase capital, where ever that can be achieved. The last several months of portfolio diversification have provided a solid increase. But it is time now to rebalance and tighten the focus. That is illustrated in much more detail in the segments that followed this one, in NFTRH 914.
I seriously had no clue that SPX was even close to target, let alone realized it had hit the 7400 measured target yesterday, until I took a look yesterday afternoon. Though upside targets are seldom stop signs (at least mine aren’t, they are objectives laid out well ahead of time), it does give me a bit of pause.
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