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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (99971)	4/15/2013 8:02:54 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217543

roger's reasoning may be what the market players believe and if enough believe, then market reacts the way it does, drops but the reasoning, when dissected, may be suspect, because (i) india hiking tax on gold import would simply encourage smuggling that would offset demand downward pressure (ii) cyprus 10 tonnes would be over in a matter of minutes although folks may be fearful of italian / spanish sales, even as each oz sold has at least one obvious buyer w/i greater china (mainland, hkg, macao and taiwan) (iii) chart analysis - selling begets selling - could be, but if so, irrational, as ag, pt and pd gets thrown out w/ bath water (iv) bit coin - how big was that bubble and exactly how much was exchanged at the needling peak? how many folks were actually wounded? cannot be that many. so, no, i fear something else is at action, and that something else shall be evident soon enough. am holding off my re-entry into silver arena, but may switch to platinum targeting instead, that which is more sure than silver and more useful than gold.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (99971)	4/16/2013 4:53:06 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217543

hello 2mar$, today's report (i) just acquired enough gold (1/3) of ultimate 'add' to move the dial, at ~us$ 1,363 per oz but in tael units (hkd 12,727 per tael) (ii) was at home office, and given cyber discussion re availability of gold in dubai, tulvin, etc, i decided to dispatch office girl to hang seng bank hq in cbd hong kong to engage w/ one 1-oz gold coin, and report back to me and via me to the boyz on the state of queue at hang seng bank hq (ii-a) would say the report indicates more than the usual activity level, meaning the buying is perhaps at 5-10x usual pace. (ii-b) that metal trading banking queue also does forex cash swapping, and normally the queue would be comprised almost entirely of forex customers. (ii-c) in truth the only time i have ever ran into another gold buyer in that queue was between 2008 10 and 2009 03 when lehman fell. (ii-d) so the young lady running into 5-6 purchasers of gold during the time it took her to wait out 20 customers in the queue is less than usual. (ii-e) see below real-time mission report via whatsapp messaging: 4/16/2013 11:16 AM: J: Take subway or taxi 4/16/2013 11:16 AM: J: Very curious 4/16/2013 11:17 AM: J: Buy 2 if you can swing it easily. I shall reimb you on-line immediate. 4/16/2013 11:17 AM: E: I m gng to withdraw cash $13000 first, is enough? 4/16/2013 11:17 AM: E: Can't take more than $20k cash from ATM 4/16/2013 11:17 AM: E: Daily 4/16/2013 11:18 AM: J: Should be around 11,600-12,000. Price collapsed last night 4/16/2013 11:18 AM: J: Okay 4/16/2013 12:34 PM: E: 2 mainland Chinese with a suitcase viewing gold bars :) 4/16/2013 12:35 PM: Jay Chen: See what they buy 4/16/2013 12:36 PM: E: Just viewing and left 4/16/2013 12:37 PM: E: Not many of them buying in fact 4/16/2013 12:37 PM: E: Banking and FX most 4/16/2013 12:37 PM: E: Just saw one lady with a few gold bars 4/16/2013 12:38 PM: Jay Chen: Buying or selling? 4/16/2013 12:38 PM: E: Buying 4/16/2013 12:39 PM: E: And a couple buying auz gold coins now 4/16/2013 12:41 PM: E: A foreign guy just bought 10 gold bars 4/16/2013 12:42 PM: J: Foreigner as in gwailo? 4/16/2013 12:42 PM: E: Yea 4/16/2013 12:42 PM: E: The couple bought 5 auz gold coins 4/16/2013 12:47 PM: J: Believe you have some american, canadian, and australian coins. Hang seng hq is where you can sell. The panda coins can be sold at bank of china hq, and at nanyang commercial. 4/16/2013 12:47 PM: E: Another couple buying gold bars 4/16/2013 12:48 PM: E: I am not desperate to sell..... :) 4/16/2013 12:48 PM: J: Do not sell until much later. Do you know how many you have? Couple buying bars, ask bank teller what size bars. 4/16/2013 12:49 PM: E: The queue still with 20+ ppl 4/16/2013 12:51 PM: E: The couple in front of me (I m in second place now) also buying gold .... 4/16/2013 12:51 PM: E: So 3 pairs of couple and a lady earlier and a foreign guy so far 4/16/2013 12:53 PM: E: Gold bar for 5 tael for $60+ 4/16/2013 12:53 PM: E: $63350 4/16/2013 12:53 PM: E: Auz $11060 4/16/2013 12:54 PM: J: :0) welcome to the mysterious gold biz. Probably the first time you lined up to buy gold that is not jewelry. 4/16/2013 12:54 PM: E: Yes and no I didn't line up for jewellery neither 4/16/2013 12:55 PM: E: :0 4/16/2013 12:56 PM: E: Done 4/16/2013 12:56 PM: E: The couple in front of me buying 150k+ I heard 4/16/2013 12:57 PM: J: Super. Take photo of receipt and send to me please. 37 people are waiting for my report. 4/16/2013 12:58 PM: E: <image omitted> 4/16/2013 12:59 PM: J: Coin next to the receipt. Sorry. J 4/16/2013 12:59 PM: E: <image omitted> 4/16/2013 12:59 PM: E: 15-18 ppl 4/16/2013 12:59 PM: E: Now 4/16/2013 1:01 PM: E: <image omitted> 4/16/2013 1:01 PM: J: mission accomplished. Thank you. J 4/16/2013 1:01 PM: E: Welcome cheers, tj

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (99971)	4/16/2013 5:38:48 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217543

just sent From: J Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Comments - Week of April 15 - beijing stores out of gold a moment of silent reflection, comrades today we are told by the wastrels at bloomberg and the waste products at cnbc that gold tanked because china economy is growing at 7.99% as opposed to 8.01% just now i saw on cctv news report re beijing gold stores had been mobbed starting this past saturday w/ folks buying gold, and the stores are mobbed today in the am and are out of gold one fair-sized store reported selling rmb 6odd million at opening time and ran out of inventory, w/ would-be customers leaving buy-orders to fill the largest single customer took in ~rmb 1m of precious goodness recommendation: getgold, humanely if possible, but getgold at all cost

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