url the Shanghai Gold Exchange, decided to follow through with an identical, if more substantial, action to that undertaken by the CME on Friday, and announced an increase in the Silver T+D contract margin from 15% to 18%, a 20% bump;

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Looks like ZeroHedge had this to say... url No big deal. I was thinking Londons Metal Exchange and got the two confused. Had a brain fart.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Nice to see you posting Xaron. Maybe this is a joke, can someone verify the link? url

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

haha! We reached the Top and gold is going to zero.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Folks maybe liquidating their gold positions to cover their positions in other markets. I believe we saw this is 2008-2009 with the mass liquidation.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

I'm seeing more and more media attention to buy gold. I just saw a tweet from Suze Orman telling people they should start buying gold and have it be 10-15% of their portfolio after spending a decade telling people not to buy gold (accumulation ...

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Using the post as a kick off point for a thought. It's good to know the environment you're playing in. If you believe the market is manipulated, nothing stops one from making money it. It just helps you asses the risk better and maybe change your ...

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

CFTC is run by criminals, who cares what they say. Their probably just pissed off because folks told them to go to hell and accept U.S. Citizens as clients. CFTC is trying to destroy the retail trader and now they are trying to destroy companies ...

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XTrade, What do you think about making a special section in post #1 where we can keep track of all the top callers for the record? It can be just from this thread or anywhere on FF. We'd put the persons name, date, and post link. I think it will be ...

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

I remember hearing an interview with Andrew Maguire where he was saying half jokingly and half serious that nobody wanted to fly on a plane with him. He's definitely rattled some cages.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Fair enough. It's kind of like when gold hit 1000 and dropped to 700. It took about 83 weeks to break that high. I guess that period could have been considered an uncertain time by some definitions, not me though since the fundamentals for a bullish ...

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Ah, I see the difference now. You're looking at a 4H chart and I'm looking at a weekly chart zoomed all the way out showing the bull run from 2000 on. I'm looking at a Secular Trend and you're looking at an Intraday Trend. Talking about trends is ...

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

What makes this gold bull run uncertain? I'd love to hear the case for this and I hope it is more than an oscillator is saying over bought.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

Thanks for sharing! I've always wanted to visit Thailand, everyone always raves about it. As a recent raw food vegan (80%) I'd love all the fresh fruit they have available. I hope to make it out there one day.

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Not really true. Every fiat currency that has ever existed has failed, but gold always has held value.

XAU/USD & XAG/USD - Gold & Silver Traders Thread

I read their book and taken all the free tests on the website, but don't know about any of their paid stuff. I like the gambler test, short one. There are some longer ones. Hope folks find it useful. url

Quest for the Psychology behind Trading Effectively...

Wow, you don't follow your prediction to go short, but you amazingly catch the move up. wow. Wow. WOW! Amazing... You only see trades like on FF.

XAU/USD Spot Gold

Man, this has been done to death. Yes, a statistical edge is 100% needed, but it is useless without proper money management and proper psychology.

Quest for the Psychology behind Trading Effectively...

I don't believe it can be done, actually I know it cannot be done. The best you can hope for is to keep the emotions in check. You're a human being not a machine. Don't get me wrong, I 'get' what you are trying to say, I'm just saying I'd rephrase ...

Quest for the Psychology behind Trading Effectively...

Reconciling the contradictions in trading is probably one of the areas that takes time and is psychologically difficult. I forget where on FF I read a post that really went into how everything in trading appears to be contradiction at first until ...

Quest for the Psychology behind Trading Effectively...