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There is a place in your investment portfolio for non-correlators to the stock market.  I believe you should own 5% – 30% of your net worth in non-correlators.  For most people this means gold, silver, agricultural commodities, and energy (e.g. oil, coal, and natural gas).  This article is specifically about purchasing gold or silver coins.  I recommend that you buy gold before silver.  Central banks to not purchase and store silver.  If you feel you must own silver, then limit it to 20% of your precious metals dollar total.  For example, if you have $7,000 to purchase PMs, then buy 4 ounces of gold (80% @ $1,400/oz) and 46 ounces of silver (20% @ $30/oz.).  Follow Burt Blumert’s rules: "Buy the best. Pay cash. Take delivery."

MarketWatch sent an interviewer to interview Parker Vogt of Camino Coin Company in Burlingame, California. This was Burt Blumert's company. He gave it to Vogt, an employee. How's that for a legacy!

The reporter has such a thick accent that I had difficulty following her narration. She is obviously reading a script. It's not a good script. But Vogt is very good.

The margins at Camino are low.

http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/bullion-coin-investing-may-cost-you/97CFE159-0178-43F2-962B-A1F1E5CC5256

Do not buy the gold ETFs.  Buy physical gold coins and take delivery of them.

The price of gold has declined for nearly four weeks.  If you don’t own any physical gold coins, then you should prepare to buy some while the price is declining.  I think that the price might continue to decline almost to the 200 moving average at around $1,260 per ounce.  We won’t get a slide in gold of -25% like in 2008 unless the entire stock market flounders.  A stock market crash is unlikely in the absence another financial panic.  There is a financial panic coming, but there is no buildup to it right now in the worldwide media.  The problems in the financial systems have not been solved.  Central banks are printing trillions of dollars, euros, and other fiat currencies.  Gold will rebound.  Take the opportunity to buy some while it is relatively cheap.

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P.M. Kitco Metals Roundup: Gold Ends Solidly Lower, hits 4-Month Low, on Technical Selling

27 January 2010, 02:06 p.m.
By Jim Wyckoff
Of Kitco News
http://www.kitco.com/

(Kitco News) - Comex gold futures prices closed solidly lower, near the daily low and hit a fresh nearly four-month low Thursday. Fresh technical selling amid waning safe-haven demand pressured gold prices. Comex gold last traded down $14.80 at $1,318.20 an ounce. Spot gold last traded down $26.70 at $1,320.00.

The gold market is seeing reduced safe-haven investment demand, what with the U.S. stock indexes trading near multi-year highs, no fresh headline news regarding European Union financial problems, and no major geopolitical flare-ups occurring. Indeed, investors worldwide have gained a better appetite for taking risk, which is hampering the safe-haven gold market. However, the gold market is still just one step away from a solid price rebound or an extended rally should a significant geopolitical or financial market event suddenly and unexpectedly appear in the news headlines.

Lower crude oil futures prices Thursday, which hit a fresh seven-week low, also worked to pressure the precious metals markets. Crude oil has seen bearish near-term technicals develop that do suggest more downside price pressure in the near term, and that's also an underlying bearish factor for gold.

The U.S. dollar index traded weaker again Thursday and hit another fresh 2.5-month low. The dollar index bears have downside near-term technical momentum and if the index remains on a downward path in the near term, look for gold prices to at least see limited selling interest. Gold bulls have been disappointed recently that the yellow metal has not seen more upside support from the weaker dollar index.

The London P.M. gold fix was $1,334.50 versus the previous P.M. fixing of $1,328.00.

Technically, February Comex gold futures prices closed nearer the session low Thursday and scored a bearish "outside day" down on the daily bar chart. Serious near-term technical damage has been inflicted in gold recently. Prices are in a four-week-old downtrend on the daily bar chart. A bearish head-and-shoulders top reversal pattern is also playing out on the daily bar chart.

Gold market bulls' next near-term upside technical objective is to produce a close above solid technical resistance at this week's high of $1,352.40 in February futures. Bears' next near-term downside price objective is closing prices below psychological support at $1,300.00. First resistance is seen at $1,325.00 and then at $1,332.00. Support is seen at Thursday's low of $1,315.70 and then at $1,310.00. Wyckoff's Market Rating: 5.0.

March silver futures closed down 18.8 cents at $26.94 an ounce Thursday. Prices closed nearer the session low today and were pressured by lower gold and crude oil prices. Prices Tuesday hit a fresh seven-week low. Silver prices are in a four-week-old downtrend on the daily bar chart. Some near-term chart damage has been inflicted in silver recently.

The next downside price objective for the silver bears is closing prices below solid technical support at $26.00. Bulls' next upside price objective is producing a close above solid technical resistance at this week's high of $27.95 an ounce. First resistance is seen at $27.25 and then at $27.50. Next support is seen at Thursday's low of $26.775 and then at this week's low of $26.54. Wyckoff's Market Rating: 5.5.

March N.Y. copper closed up 670 points at 433.40 cents Thursday. Prices closed nearer the session high. The bulls had faded a bit earlier this week and needed to show fresh power, which they have done. The copper bulls have the overall near-term technical advantage. Bulls' next upside objective is pushing and closing prices above solid technical resistance at the January all-time high of 449.80 cents. The next downside price objective for the bears is closing prices below solid technical support at 410.00 cents. First resistance is seen at Thursday's high of 435.55 and then at this week's high of 437.25 cents. First support is seen at 430.00 cents and then at Thursday's low of 427.55 cents. Wyckoff's Market Rating: 7.0.

  

By Jim Wyckoff of Kitco News; jwyckoff@kitco.com

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Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:28:07 -0800 The Surprising Price of Wheat http://myhighdividendstocks.posterous.com/the-surprising-price-of-wheat http://myhighdividendstocks.posterous.com/the-surprising-price-of-wheat

The Surprising Price of Wheat

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01/20/11 Tampa, Florida – I was intrigued by the title of the essay “The Cheapest Thing on Earth” by Nathan Lewis here at The Daily Reckoning.

I was interested because I thought that such a tasty trivia tidbit could come in handy, like this morning when I could have used it as a distraction when my kids were calling me “cheap” because I wouldn’t open up my wallet and give them another king’s ransom for some new dumb reason; I forget what, but there was a lot of crying and wailing about it, whatever it was.

This is where I could have said, to throw them off, “Cheap? What do you know about cheap? Do you know what is the cheapest thing on earth? Huh? Do ya? Huh? Do ya? Yes or no?!”

Instead of providing me with the answer, he starts off with a pop quiz! Damn!

And when I say “pop” quiz, I mean exactly that, as he says, “Quick: name an asset, publicly traded, that is the cheapest in a hundred years.” Pop!

I, of course, had no idea, and instead of admitting it, I quickly read ahead, hoping to immediately find the answer, only to be surprised when he taunted me. “Houses?” he asks. “Nope. Stocks? I don’t think so. Commercial real estate? Bonds?”

By this time I was pretty peeved, and getting bored, too, as I was sure that if it was, indeed, none-of-the-above, then this was going to devolve into something about investing in something obscure, the significance of which would elude me even if you explained it to me over and over again, in a company I never heard of, and, probably, in a country I never heard of, either.

Just before I gave up reading in disgust, he dared to taunt me one more time, the bastard! “Not too many, are there?” he asks.

At this final insult, my mind screamed, “Damn you! Damn you to hell! Tell me now, or I will fire off a flaming email that will be both highly insulting and vaguely threatening!”

I could almost hear his cruel, mocking laughter as he rudely called my bluff, and further insulted me and my false bravado with, “Now here’s a tougher one. Name an asset that is near the lowest price in all of human history.”

Arrgghhh! In all of human history? By this time I am angry and distraught, mostly angry, that somebody was exposing my stupidity and ignorance!

Suddenly, I am gasping for air and screaming that if he doesn’t tell me the answer pretty soon, I am going to start hearing those voices in my head again, and (now that you mention it) if I listen really closely, I can almost hear them already, way off in the distance, screaming to be heard and obeyed.

And we all remember how it turned out the LAST time that happened.

Obviously intimidated by the sudden revelation of the strange, powerful forces he is unleashing, he quickly announces, “The answer is: wheat”!!

I admit that I personally put those two final exclamation points at the end of his sentence as an emphasis, both to indicate surprise and to remind you that there are surely significant ramifications of this “price of wheat” thing, the horrors of which I never allow myself to even think, except during sleep, and then hopefully only when I am dreaming of being with some beautiful young thing, and maybe with some of her friends, too, who are all naked and sweaty and grunting and heaving and writhing around in some surreal bacchanalia of some kind, where the only interruption is the masses of people outside wailing and crying that “The price of food is up so much that we are burning things and looting grocery stores in mindless anger and desperation, and we are looking for the Fabulous Mogambo Seer (FMS) to pledge our undying allegiance and love because he predicted that this inflationary hell is Exactly What Would Happen (EWWH) when the stupid Federal Reserve kept creating more and more fiat money, creating astonishing amounts of money, creating outrageous amounts of money, creating So Much Freaking Money (SMFM) for so, so long that We’re Freaking Doomed (WFD)!”

I can reliably report, thanks to these dreams, that the sound of people starving to death is a real “mood killer,” perhaps on a par with the horror that wheat is now at the highest price ever, even going back to Biblical times, which is probably why those old Bible-era people were always “breaking bread,” and eating unleavened wheat crackers, and consuming miscellaneous cheap wheat products instead of having, you know, a few tasty tacos or maybe a pizza once in awhile, which I figure must have been because they were very expensive or something, which is why you never hear of anybody eating them.

Anyway, I immediately used this new information-as-icebreaker at the supermarket, and told the cashier, as she rang up my groceries, “I’ll bet you don’t know that wheat is at its lowest price in recorded history, but climbing fast because the horrid Federal Reserve is still creating So Freaking Much Money (SFMM) that the terrifying, heartbreaking misery and suffering of inflation in the prices of subsistence prices of items, like wheat, is guaranteed! Guaranteed, I tells ya!”

She just dragged my frozen burrito across her laser scanner, the irritating “beep!” noise only underscoring her complete lack of interest.

I went on, helpfully adding that they also said, “Actually, the entire agriculture complex, including corn, beef, pork and beans could fit this description.”

Again the lonely “beep!” as she listlessly ran my bag of Oreo Double Stuf cookies through the beam, her face never changing, not even to make the time pass with idle conversation about, for example, how much she adores cute old guys who buy such delicious cookies, or how my eyes twinkle so charmingly, or even to say how she noticed I kept looking at her boobs. You know; anything.

Giving up, I took my groceries in hand and parted without giving anyone my usual advice, which is to “Buy gold and silver right now, using whatever money you can glean from your stupid little job, because inflation is going to eat us alive, and a weird, distorted economy will make it even more hellish, all thanks to the horrid Federal Reserve continuing to create so much excess money. And buying gold and silver is so easy that a bunch of bored, underpaid worker-bees in a low-margin business like you can do it! In fact, it’s so easy that even morons say, ‘Whee! This investing stuff is easy!’”

The Mogambo Guru
for The Daily Reckoning

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Richard Daughty (Mogambo Guru) is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the writer/publisher of the Mogambo Guru economic newsletter, an avocational exercise to better heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it. The Mogambo Guru is quoted frequently in Barron's, The Daily Reckoning , and other fine publications.

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