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It’s worth this 28 minute exposure to see how impossible it is to untangle this oligarch mess. What comes to mind is this famous quote.

“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice  to deceive” .

I have been thinking the same thing lately. Maybe TPTB don’t want it lower anymore. It would fit my everything is in reverse view. Gold could be the US gov’ts insurance policy, to gain enormous value and pay off some debt?

Has come with a lot less fanfare than in past moves? I remember how big a deal it was when we hit $1k and $2k.

We went right through $3k quietly. No articles out there predicting the next sell off or how overbought we are. Maybe I’m just haven’t seen them.

Maybe all the prognosticators are just stunned by it.

If you put in a sell order way above the mkt, as a GTC…yr broker cannot lend yr shares out……i believe.

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When it was $3000/oz my friend didn’t want to buy the high.

https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=METALS&p=d

I just googled “molycorp mp materials” to make sure.

Part:

MP Materials is a rare earth materials and magnetics producer that acquired the Mountain Pass mine in California from Molycorp after Molycorp filed for bankruptcy. MP Materials restarted mining and processing at Mountain Pass in 2018. The company aims to restore a fully integrated rare earth supply chain in the United States, including mining, processing, metallization, and magnet manufacturing. 

https://gregreese.substack.com/p/exotic-weapons-of-mass-destruction?publication_id=706779&post_id=161485934&r=poko7&triedRedirect=true

That’s Moly, really!? I haven’t bought it just watching it but side tracked with other things no stocks  so watching is more hobby or habit quiet time lol

Have you recently received a notice from your broker telling you they can/will lend out your shares if you do not notify them that you will not allow it?? I/we have two brokers and both have recently sent out a similar notice which was, I believe, discussed here on this forum. So investors have been notified, but does that make it legal? Probably!

Those Algo’s are gonna cost their owners way more than they ever made……

The chart looks ok, but I’m sticking with my Gold miners, AGI DRD SAND IAG ORLA

At the University of Amsterdam, Jihadists beat students with sticks.

Europe is committing suicide.

https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1911890603455250807

The certificates should be with the Buyer/his broker….that they maybe aren’t just makes life more difficult and should be policed properly.

Dollar down a little bit for what it’s worth 50-200 MA made a death cross today. Yields and SM correlation to where there gonna put their money. Gold still doing well but near multi year top.

Mr Copper MP anticipated pull back yesterday took the one day gains but  failed to fill the gap and moved up today but sold off more than half. This is a time I don’t like to trade but if anything add any longs Divi speaking on the next support levels less it’s clear it’s still headed lower. With SM it could be.

IMO the only time that would happen is if the new buyer requested a certificate for his purchased shares and the broker delivered it to the new buyer, and that almost never happens now in this world of PC day/swing traders. Otherwise those shares are held in your brokers account and are the property of your broker until he receives instructions from you to  sell them.

Selling the PM stox, as soon as the SM dips will also be non starter, once dividends really crank up…..

No you miss a trick, the sale was made to a new buyer..he has the Certs now….the borrowed shares have still to be returned to Blackrock….hence the short not covered.

but that is somewhat academic ..as the SEC do not enforce the short seller delivering the shares…..so I don’t think they even bother to Borrow the shares and that would also cost, so they save that cost as well.

Where the shorts are in trouble, is when they have to pay the dividend to the buyers and when the dividend is huge , as they will be this quarter, with the shares going against them…it should be game over…..they will be short covering into a mkt of no sellers, just more buyers looking for the Dividend…..

IMO they are NOT shorts!  They are your shares, borrowed from your broker’s account by BlackRock to make the short legal….and then returned to your brokers account. All perfectly legal, and since they possessed the borrowed shares when they made the short there is no need to cover anything. That is what I think!

Is this possible???

re yr question…..as u know what the risks are with Banks and government issued fiat, which then technically includes Treasuries….the only choice I see is buying Exxon stock and taking the share certs home…..or a similar blue chip.

Especially as the volume tapers off. What do ya do?

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I think we were up $100 once or twice recently. I’m looking forward to up $200+ days! 🙂