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Dust-Up

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It’s time to do my only physical activity of the day and pat myself on the back.

Yesterday, just before the opening bell, I wrote a post called Dust to Dust in which I declared two insane things: (1) I was going to dump the entirety of my PALL position and take profits, in spite of its strength (2) I was going to defy the entire global precious metals rally and short the miners.

We’re only an hour into the new trading day, so it’s a little early to erect a statue, but the last two times I sold PALL (red arrows) the timing seems pretty decent.

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