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Originally Posted by C2BP
Look for incredible gains in the next two years. Gold will break the 2011 highs.
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What will you do if it goes to $1,150 before it goes to $1,950?
We can all agree that from Nov 2000 to Sep 2011, the gold run-up from $265 to $1,895 was just swell.
However, during that period ( ignoring the period from
03/19/08 to 10/27/08 for obvious reasons, the price of gold and the gold stocks went down significantly on these following occasions:
Ten-day performance of gold ( 2nd column ) and GDX ( 3rd column ):
06/04/01 .. (0.0850) .. (0.1136)
10/22/01 .. (0.0547) .. (0.0983)
07/29/02 .. (0.0502) .. (0.1814)
10/08/02 .. (0.0224) .. (0.1683)
03/12/03 .. (0.0477) .. (0.1060)
10/06/03 .. (0.0368) .. (0.0773)
01/19/04 .. (0.0357) .. (0.1274)
04/21/04 .. (0.0648) .. (0.1443)
06/14/04 .. (0.0269) .. (0.1005)
12/10/04 .. (0.0377) .. (0.1050)
02/15/06 .. (0.0584) .. (0.1274)
05/24/06 .. (0.1020) .. (0.1944)
09/19/06 .. (0.0868) .. (0.1761)
03/05/07 .. (0.0507) .. (0.0981)
08/16/07 .. (0.0060) .. (0.1336)
11/19/07 .. (0.0322) .. (0.0988)
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11/19/08 ... 0.0109 ... (0.2081)
01/14/09 .. (0.0555) .. (0.1677)
04/09/09 .. (0.0616) .. (0.1434)
06/16/09 .. (0.0469) .. (0.1387)
10/01/09 .. (0.0135) .. (0.0988)
12/17/09 .. (0.0759) .. (0.1556)
01/25/10 .. (0.0501) .. (0.1391)
01/14/11 .. (0.0307) .. (0.1072)
05/13/11 .. (0.0194) .. (0.1285)
Note that these downturns came in waves. I ignored where it was down in June, July, and August, for instance. It might show down 7.65% ( 0.0765 ), but it might have gone down 20-30% over a four or five week period.
These periods made gold bugs cry like babies. People trying to catch the gold wave were crying like babies. Those that just bought a coin or two and put them in the vault and ignored the fluctuations were fine.
If you were agnostic, you could make money off of the bugs by buying Puts into the final blowoffs. You only have to be right 55-or-so percent of the time. Then, after it dumped 15-20%, you could buy Calls.
This time isn't different. We are going to have weeks of carnage for gold buyers. It might be next week and it might be next month, but you can bank on it.
What's your strategy
See-Two-Bee-Pee when gold takes a 10% dump and the stocks take a beating that is almost 5x the drop in gold? That's the average difference above.
Gloating is unbecoming and weenie-like. Will you come on here and say how much you like your gold stock when it's off 25%? It's gonna happen.
This time isn't different. It might go up later, but do you have the nads to stay in it for a couple of months?
I'm sure not going to say how much I like my Puts and I'm sure not going to tell anyone what I'm trading and selling and buying. No one cares. Ever.