METALS THREAD - Precious & others

If cramer likes them they must be close to rolling over. I wouldn't touch gold here...rare earths may be a bubble but why aren't metals another bubble about to burst? Gold at 1400?

Buy all the metals you can and hold until you start to see the eventual doom.

Didn't a bunch of Analysts predict gold at $2K way back in the 2002 crash?

I did initiate a silver position this week. But I bought a Canadian silver miner in order to gain a little protection against inflation of the dollar by using the Canuck dollar. SVM

Nice Skwerl..
I bought SVM on the NYSE...I want to earning some money to make back the currency loss on my USD
I bought 2 years ago at 1.08

DJI compared to gold over 3 years. Direction is somewhat correlated but not yield.

Kinda like the housing mess. You see all these gold kits, gold commercials and I think History channel has a gold mining show coming out: but something has got to give. Eventually the cycle is going to end...right? Or is it all blue sky ahead? I'm not sure and I hope it hits 2k for all those that bought in.

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The thing that concerns me is how many people are jumping on the metals bandwagon. That's a sure sign that we're nearing the end of the run as the smart money keeps looking for dumb money to come in and buy them out. On the CNBC premarket page there are 6-7 stories featured at the top right and 4 of them are pumping metals- including Cramer.

Exactly my thoughts as well. Same thing happened to oil. Remember when they started saying oil was going to $150-$200. They had a piece out on the day it reversed at 140ish, saying that $150 was coming.

Imo, CNBC is more about ratings than about reporting what really matters. Non-Biased my ass.

Copper growth

I think copper has a long ways to go as long as China stays on the growth pace which they are on-

The average citizen in China uses about 1/3rd the amount of copper that a citizen of Japan or Korea uses I read recently-

If that is accurate that means they have a lot of catching up to do so copper demand is supposed to remain very strong-

Do your own due diligence of course---

While i would agree with you to some extent i think there is more supply than people estimate. There is a mine in Mongolia which has 81 BILLION pounds of copper that will be established in the next couple of years. This mine also has estimated 46 MILLION ounces of gold. Its in Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia.

rare earth metals could be in demand in the next months...

I also like manganese