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Silver/Gold Ratio Trades on the Cusp

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The Silver/Gold ratio trades, my name for a wider commodity rally, are on the cusp of another leg up

You could call them “inflation trades”, but the post-2021 phase and its heavy inflationary effects * saw commodities generally trend downward as hawkish Fed policy ** supported the US dollar.

So I came up with a new and more accurate way to describe a widespread commodity bull phase; the Silver/Gold ratio trades. When silver leads gold the indication is that cyclical markets, pumped as they were through the magic of inflationary policy, are still okay.

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Pulsing Palladium

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Before this Monday, I had never traded anything to do with palladium in my entire life. However, over the weekend I decided this laggard metal was worth a shot, so I started buying on Monday.

I am ashamed to say that yesterday morning, when PALL was slipping lower, I was briefly tempted to dump it and be done with it, but I looked at the charts more and decided not only was I not going to dump it, but I was going to push deep into margin and buy a lot more. Well, thank God for that…………it blasted higher yesterday, eased back all night long, and then went into blast-off mode again.

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