Gold at $4,000. Silver at $50. Here they come.

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This is quite the pickle: on the one hand, gold and silver have blasted to nosebleed levels, which makes me very uneasy about buying palladium, since I think it would get dragged down by any serious tumble in PM. On the other hand, viewed utterly by itself, PALL looks like an amazingly good bullish setup. Argh!

It’s not fancy. It’s not AI. It isn’t crypto. It’s just a boring old bond fund. But I continue to profess my love of IEF, which is where I’ve dedicated a couple of my conservative portfolios. This is a beautiful saucer pattern, and I think many months of relatively steady price gains are ahead.

I’m not a truck guy. I’ve never owned a truck. I’ve never needed a truck. The bulkiest thing I have to deal with in my life is lingering resentment toward non-paying users, and there’s no cab large enough to contain that. Still, I have always loved the looks of the Rivian, ever since I first laid eyes on one.
On Friday, I went “all in” for one of my portfolios in IEF, the medium-term bond fund. The saucer setup is absolutely magnificent, and I wanted something conservative, long, and well-formed for this particular portfolio.
