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Mrben
04 Dec 09 00:26
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Gold is my new short term baby.Big drop last night.In on this morning at what I hope near the days low of 1202.10. In for 20 contracts. Great opportunity for the upside.
The gold market obviously is not going to go straight up forever, but if one believes that a weaker U.S. dollar and higher inflation rates lie ahead, as seems quite likely, the long side of gold looks like the place to be if you are prepared to venture into a market that can become quite volatile.
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Report CDarwin December 4, 2009 11:11 AM GMT
Do you put any stop losses in place on these trades - if so what %age do you generally run, 5, 10, 15% ?
Report SkEgY December 4, 2009 11:42 AM GMT
Gold to hit 1250 by the end of December
Report Rugbyleaguer December 4, 2009 12:23 PM GMT
I am in for gold from a low of 1000, I thought around late Dec it usually has a blip? Surely there is a correction on iyts way, im tempted to close for a while, but holding on at the minute
Report bobby2424 December 4, 2009 12:25 PM GMT
NFP figures at 13.30 gmt should move Gold :D
Report bobby2424 December 4, 2009 12:49 PM GMT
see :D a little dippy doo down to 1187 :(

Then up she blows ??
Report Rugbyleaguer December 4, 2009 6:10 PM GMT
Bad day to invest 1160 now
Report thesniffer December 4, 2009 7:03 PM GMT
Great call MrB
Report bobby2424 December 4, 2009 7:14 PM GMT
RIP Mrben :(
Report Biodiesel December 4, 2009 7:16 PM GMT
lol!! haha very funny

pick urself up mrben, hope u used a close stop.

I tempted to go in now,dollar is rally key here
Report Biodiesel December 4, 2009 7:25 PM GMT
Iam in close stop tho
Report thesniffer December 4, 2009 7:44 PM GMT
still up over 5% on the month, so although tempting to go back in, think i will just sit out and watch
Report Biodiesel December 4, 2009 7:52 PM GMT
its goin d right way com on mother **er!!!
Report subversion December 4, 2009 8:02 PM GMT
wonder if china will be buying on this monster dip
Report Mrben December 4, 2009 8:12 PM GMT
nasty fall, my first wrong call for a while. I averaged down at 1152.1 now long 40 @1177. closed around 1161 for a loss of about 6500$.Small change at this stage.
As I have said before stay invested at a very small proportion of capital and you can handle these adverse situations.
Questions is- has the game changed now? Will the us dollar rise now and gold fall more.Somehow I doubt it.
Report subversion December 4, 2009 8:20 PM GMT
jobs were lost and yet the unemployment rate fell

arent statistics fun?
Report Biodiesel December 4, 2009 8:22 PM GMT
if I was a china man I would!

raised up my stop, risk free trade,time for another position id say!!
Report Gooseman December 8, 2009 8:23 AM GMT
mr ben-you've gone strangely quiet. i do hope you got out, really i do. would be nice having told everyone to buy what your strategy is now.
Report chisel December 8, 2009 9:42 AM GMT
Maybe thee is no safe place for your cash these days!
Report uptheowls December 8, 2009 10:38 AM GMT
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$GOLD:$XBP&p=W&b=5&g=0&id=p86927083300
Report uptheowls December 8, 2009 10:42 AM GMT
or Chisel's preferred investment vehicle - http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=RBS:$XBP&p=W&b=5&g=0&id=p03596830589
Report Mrben December 8, 2009 11:02 PM GMT
oh well i had to take a bath here.Lost 22,000$ on this trade. cant win them all I guess.Will move to the sidelines till after christmas.Still up since mid october around 170,000$. Am considering shorting my beloved aussie dollar.The game may have changed now so wait a little longer for some confirmation.
Report DonWarro December 8, 2009 11:07 PM GMT
you will be back betting the same directions. and i dont blame you :)
Report wolsey end December 9, 2009 6:34 AM GMT
mr ben - u know what i find strange about all this. remember yr aussie dollar post, a couple of months ago, when u told people to buy at around 88 (a few of us got on at 89, thanks again) and is onside straight away, yr post had a couple of replies in the first day or so.

u put up another trade, which goes against u almost immediately, and u get 14 replies in the first day!

enjoy yr christmas and thanks again - u certainly helped out with that aud trade.
Report Gooseman December 9, 2009 9:26 AM GMT
what i find stranger is that mr ben tells the world and his dog to buy gold, it collapses and he goes quiet. i'm glad he made money on the other stuff but if you put your head above the parapet when times are good, same when you are hurting.
Report chisel December 9, 2009 9:37 AM GMT
Yep!
Report Biodiesel February 4, 2010 4:39 PM GMT
huumh!! called the top their so u did!
Report Live4 February 4, 2010 8:09 PM GMT
Get on the silver as well. Have you seen the drop today? Mental
Report Live4 February 4, 2010 8:10 PM GMT
Oops thought this was a current topic. Well it should be!
Report crediter February 5, 2010 12:29 PM GMT
differing views bout gold.....some say it could hit $1500.....others say $3000......best judge going to be yourself.
Report Pastie February 6, 2010 12:18 PM GMT
In my opinion, a better long-term trade than Gold is to go long on USD / JPY.

Or... as a very short term trade, going long on EUR / CHF if we get down to around 1.46ish. The Swiss Central Bank have already intervened twice in the last week or so.

Gotta be good for a couple of hundred easy pips.
Report OLD HEAD February 6, 2010 11:01 PM GMT
gold is for gamblers,like betting on roulette,has no real value (well limted value) pays no dividends cost you to hold it (a bit dodgy round your neck)its from an age thjat has past ,unless we move backwards through some major catastrophe gold has only one way to go DOWN .(i'm not talking about next week).
Report cricketjon February 7, 2010 7:50 AM GMT
725 i say

in deflation all assets get murdered
Report crediter February 9, 2010 4:30 PM GMT
we shall see...up 14 u.s tday.
Report crediter February 12, 2010 10:41 PM GMT
1094.40 troy.
Report ImSoLuckyLucky! February 13, 2010 12:15 PM GMT
Only offerd £5.50 a 9 carat gramme yesterday
Skinflints!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)
Report crediter February 14, 2010 12:09 AM GMT
6-50p around 8 on net....
Report crediter February 15, 2010 9:14 PM GMT
1100..
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