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To: da_cheif™ who wrote (21525)	4/13/2010 4:52:10 PM
From: SliderOnTheBlack	14 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49968

re: ["...u see the more things change the more they remain the same"] Chief, in all due respect, I have to humbly suggest that you ask Santa Claus for three things this year: 1. More Monetization 2. More Quantitative Easing 3. Stimulus II And if you get any of your three wishes, gold and pm stocks will still continue to outperform the broad market indices. But if you don't, and the Minsky Moment arrives and the music stops (and stop it will), then hard assets will fall less than paper assets. But to survive, let alone to really prosper, one will ultimately have to make a very large short sided bet against paper assets. As far as "the more things change, the more they remain the same." Again, I have to most humbly disagree. You see, that's what's this is really all about - "change." And not just any change, but the single greatest social re-engineering of society in modern history. They call it "Agenda 21," and they've bet hundreds of billions of dollars, and 40+ years of work on it... "Effective execution of UN AGENDA 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced - a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision- making at every level." Ask the 500 million people from 27 nation states in Europe who just lost their vote, their national sovereignty, and the protection of their courts and their constitution to the EU via the Lisbon Treaty, about that change. The 1980's to 2000 was about America's economic transition into globalism. 2000 to 2020 will be about America's political transition into global governance. Read those two sentences again, because you will see no more valuable advice about the coming decade, than what you just read. Hubris? Nope, just reality. All the old market rules are out, because in case you haven't noticed, they aren't playing by the rules any more. Nothing as you now know it, is going to remain the same, on that - you will need to bet the farm, to save the farm. It will be in the understanding of politics, not economics, by which fortunes will be made and lost over the coming decade. SOTB

To: da_cheif™ who wrote (21525)	4/16/2010 4:39:14 PM
From: SliderOnTheBlack	5 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 49968

Trading thoughts: VIX up +15% and US Dollar at key critical support... The VIX was awfully cheap given the extreme bullishness in option speculation and we got a nice pop today... For gold and gold stocks, the HUI Index was starting to look a little over-bought last week, so I sold my calls purchased on the Jan-Feb correction... Message 26444027 From: SliderOnTheBlack 4/7/2010 2:17:04 PM Ca$hing In Some Call$ re: the March to May seasonal gold/pm trade: GDX April $50 calls up +127% today after being up +33% yesterday... And now with today's $22 selloff in gold, and a pullback in gold stocks on the back of a triple digit correction in the DOW; we just might be setting up for yet another nice swing trade if this pullback continues into next week, as the US Dollar is teetering at key, critical support. Here's a one year, weekly chart for the dollar. For a fire to be lit under gold, we need a break below 79.51 on the weekly chart: And here's an interesting interview with James Rickards from KingWorldNews.com. Rickards has some interesting thoughts on the potential of the US returning to a gold backed dollar, and lays out the case where China may need to be making some massive gold buys out of the market. Rickards also adds his thoughts on the LMBA scandal and the rather sparse inventories found in the vaults at ScotiaMocatta. Good stuff... kingworldnews.com SOTB

To: da_cheif™ who wrote (21525)	5/6/2010 5:27:38 PM
From: SliderOnTheBlack	2 Recommendations Respond to of 49968

re: $VIX "nice chart but as u can see over to the left of that sentiment chart it got a lot higher.........and you notice that the vix got under 10 in the 90s and stayed there.......and all that FA stuff doesnt have anything to do with the markets anyway....just as all that terrible FA hadnt anything to do with the markets in 1982..." Message #21525 from da_cheif™ at 4/13/2010 3:37:09 PM ================================================= youtube.com +102% in da' bank. snort, SOTB