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Market Manipulations and Solutions
By Peter Degraaf
December 30, 2008
This is something I have observed first hand since I became interested in silver in the mid-1960s. It seemed that every time silver reached a peak, an invisible hand came out of nowhere and knocked the price back down to the starting point again.

Cycles ... and How to Make Them Work in your Favor
By Peter Degraaf
December 10, 2008
While cycles are destined to run for a certain number of time segments, from seconds to centuries, their time can be shortened or lengthened by a change in fundamentals. The prudent investor looks for the reason that will change the trend and shorten or lengthen the cycle.

Keep Your Eye on the Prize
By Peter Degraaf
November 21, 2008
In this fast-moving age it is so easy to take your eye off the prize. Short-term trends can easily throw one off track. For every analyst who will tell you a stock or commodity is going up, there is another one who will tell you it is going down in price.

Is it Inflation or Deflation?
By Peter Degraaf
November 4, 2008
When the monetary authorities inflate the system it takes a while before the newly created funds filter down and before people catch on. They want you to believe that 'asset deflation' (lower prices for stocks and commodities) translates into monetary deflation. The two are quite different.

A Letter to Our Clients
By Joseph Iorio
October 23, 2008
We have had a great number of customers wanting to know why there is a huge difference between the spot silver and the current selling prices. I will try to explain it to the best of my understanding.

Anti-Money Laundering Law
By Joseph Iorio
October 7, 2008
We are presently dealing with an economic melt-down. Fiat money is not working and has failed now. With all the present currency controls it would be easy to control what could and could not be redeemed for a new currency. We are not far from martial law. Printing money is easy and cheap. Gold and silver are real and difficult to replace.

Smart Money is Moving to Tangible Assets
By Joseph Iorio
October 2, 2008
Who wouldn't want to own commodities when the U.S. banking system is failing, when the U.S. economy is unstable, when the printing of U.S. fiat money continues, and when the US dollar is in decline and losing its position as the world's reserve asset of preference? To be unprepared is to be vulnerable for some very serious lifestyle corrections.

$2,500 Gold
By Peter Degraaf
September 18, 2008
The action in gold and silver during the past few days is an indication of how rapid the price rise can be. Like a beach ball held under water, the deeper you push the ball the faster it rises once released. The commercial gold traders who were net short 247,000 contracts and have reduced this position to being net short 94,000 contracts as of last week. The commercial traders could tell that the beach ball was about to pop up.

A Tale of Two Silvers
By Peter Degraaf
August 26, 2008
Once-upon-a-time in never-never land there were two competing silver prices. These two silver prices were at loggerheads with each other. Every time the 'real' silver price began to rise, a 'paper' silver price would show up in large quantities and scare some of the holders of real silver to dump and run.

The August Lows are Upon Us
By Peter Degraaf
August 6, 2008 Gold is amazingly cheap right now. People who have resisted the temptation to buy the June low will usually take advantage of this last opportunity before the start of the Christmas rally that seems to happen almost every year.

Breakout
By Peter Degraaf
June 20, 2008
Gold is breaking out on the upside today after having been contained in a bullish pennant formation for the past 93 days. Virtually every year we witness a Christmas rally in gold with the seasonal lows coming in the spring, following a correction towards the 200DMA.

The Fuse is Lit and the Rocket is Rising!
By Peter Degraaf
May 17, 2008
It's amazing how many people out there still do not understand the basic bullish fundamentals of the gold market. Even a large number of analysts are providing their clients with erroneous advice by telling them to 'wait for a bottom.' Many of these clients could well be facing the problem of looking back ruefully at the bottom, long after it is in place.

Gold and Silver - The Fuse is Lit!
By Peter Degraaf
May 9, 2008
Gold and silver are becoming more of a bargain on a daily basis. The reason is very simple: every day the central bank money spigots are spewing out at least ten times as much money as miners are able to produce gold and silver!

Gold and Silver - Preparing for the Next Launch to Greater Heights
By Peter Degraaf
April 8, 2008
Normally when a commodity rises in price, the supply increases, as producers put their product on the market to take advantage of the higher price. In the case of gold we see the opposite to that trend.

An Open Letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
By Bix Weir
March 26, 2008
"Last week the price of silver was slammed down $4 in a matter of days out of the blue after nothing but bullish news about the silver market. The market COT structure was ripe for a collusive downward manipulation and the top commercial traders executed another manipulative slam ..."

Did Your Analyst Keep You Invested?
By Peter Degraaf
February 27, 2008
When prices rise exponentially, as they're doing now, the temptation is to take profits and wait for a pull-back. Especially when the analyst you happen to follow, tells you that gold and silver are 'overbought.'

GATA Gold Rally - How High is Up?
By Peter Degraaf
January 29, 2008
For the next few weeks or months analysts will likely refer to the latest rise in the gold price that started today as the 'GATA rally.'

Wall Street Journal to Run GATA Full Page Ad!
By Sheldon England
January 24, 2008
This month GATA (the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee) will place a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal titled "Anybody Seen Our Gold?" and calling attention to the international central bank scheme to suppress the price of gold and to GATA's conference in Washington in April.