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  • Commodities, Gold, Long Ideas, mining stocks, Silver, Short Ideas

    Sector Focus – Miners and Precious Metals

    Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 6:16pm

    If you want to know when to buy Silver and want to be safe a breakout above $45 (and a strong close as well above that level) should give this metal the push it needs to get to $50 and above. I was thinking last week that the metals were going to pause but should we start to see some buyers...

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  • ABX, AU, GG, Gold, KGC, Long Ideas

    Buy GDX And GDXJ

    Friday, September 9, 2011 - 11:56am

    Yesterday morning I had a conversation with a brilliant reader of mine. We spoke about precious metals, the blatant manipulation of the metals (which I am happy to report the Central banks have been unable to sustain) and to point out two stocks that I had not given their fair due. In fairness, I...

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  • ABX, CDE, ETFs, GDX, GG, Gold

    Buy Gold, Silver, and Avoid the Miners

    Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 5:18pm

    The last year for gold and silver has been an amazing ride. After a sideways consolidation period in which silver traded at $15.00 for the first three quarters of 2010, September unleashed a move that was nearly unstoppable. From September 2010 through October 2010 silver almost doubled. I bought...

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  • Gamesa Corporation, GCTAY, heavy rare earths, mining stocks, News, rare earths

    Why do rare earth stocks matter?

    Thursday, December 30, 2010 - 3:24pm

    By now, we've all heard China's cutting exports on heavy rare earths by 35 percent during the first half of 2011. Why should we care? Why do rare earth stocks matter? They matter because they're increasingly used in the high-tech gadgetry that American consumers demand; from flat panel TVs to...

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