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I have been trying to get a feel of your service the last week and how I might benefit from it. One of the strategies I am interested in is the short term option trades. From what I can tell, it looks like you use the GDX for your option trades. Are you concerned about the relatively small volume of option trades of GDX and how this might affect prices if you have a large number subscribers trying to enter a trade?

You know, all this "technical analysis", graphs, slopes etc does not mean much if anything. Markets don’t look back and are not related to the past at all , except some people look for similarities. The gold price at this time is dictated by the flow of speculative capital , usually nervous in such situations : what to do and where to go to make some profit. A lot of naïve and confused investors still out there ( ref. Barney Madoff story).

My friends keep telling me that I should sell my beautiful numismatic gold and silver coins and buy bars and junk coins instead. They tell me that my numismatic holdings will not appreciate as much as other forms of precious metals. Is that true? How could it be - won't people value the top-quality bullion more and price it higher than ordinary bars or junk coins?

(...) the GATA people and others say that technical analysis simply doesn't work on manipulated markets, and I have to concur with this. Manipulation makes technical analysis useless. Gold, silver and the dollar are all manipulated.

When do you expect the USD to crash and gold to sky-rocket? The dollar crash is being said for years now…