by 68Camaro » Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:27 pm
I would love to think so Neil, and will take advantage of it if they do, but I'm afraid they don't have the muscle anymore. I think they are having trouble keeping this in check, and are being satisfied with keeping prices under slowly growing target levels to avoid market panic.
At the moment there is still significant resistance to allowing paper PM prices to pass 1900 gold and 43 silver. (Of course I'm in the camp of the source of this as being artificial - it's not a real market - but that's a whole other set of threads.) They pulled off three more attacks today to keep prices at bay, despite the larger market crash, each time at critical points where the prices were getting ready to take off. Hats off to them for their expertise! Unfortunately for me they didn't quite kick it down enough to hit the first of my re-purchase buy points. (Dang! If they going to do this, I want them to do it right! So I can make more FRNs off of them.) The whole market is starting to shift up; even the major down attacks are having trouble getting silver down below 40, and to stay down for any length of time. And when they do this with off-market timing, and it won't stay down, it prevents me from taking advantage of it.
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