grumpy-old-man

you're wasting your time you know. I hate to say it but you have to call it a day sometimes CJ. The keymakers have the power. The picture below sums up the fiat shouters & gold doubters™. one of cgnao's & my favourites:

ok thanks for the reply sylvester.

I am wondering if he has had his account disabled? hence the difference on the 'users' profile tabs, in other words they are not available if the account has been suspended etc ? edited ah ha: * Hard deleted - physically remove post/topic from DB with no traces and no way to restore * Soft deleted - Remove the topic/post from public view, but all the admins and mods can still see it in the topic view. They also slim it down so that only the user's nick is visible, with a thin line going across to the right, where there is a "Manage" link or a "View" link which would allow you to undelete it (restore it back into public view the way it was) or make other changes (like delete the attachments uploaded in that post) * Moderated - Similar to IPB's inactive/invisible has this been done admin team ??

I see what you mean SOTT. If you go to the users profile & click on 'posts' it shows nothing, same goes for 'topics' I checked my profile & it lists my most recent posts under the 'posts' tab...... If you do a search for 'cgnao' as a user, then select 'all posts', it does return threads with his posts on. Can an admin clarify please ?

I'd say we have hit the bottom. (perhaps a few dollars more ) cgnao you must be laughing your head off atm & I understand why you're not posting. Although I think you may in a couple of weeks time.

not sure if anyone mentioned this, but I believe we experienced Backwardation yesterday in the Gold market. edit: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/01/22...evisited-uh-oh/ (my bold/underlining) "Gold backwardation fears revisited, uh oh! Posted by Izabella Kaminska on Jan 22 11:30. It’s been a while since the gold bugs had a tasty scare-story to feed on. But those frustrations can now be dispelled. The Business Insider blog brings to our attention that net gold-lease rates are back on the rise, and more importantly gold-forward rates are dropping fast. And it’s true. The so-called GOFO rate set by the London Bullion Association dropped as low as 0.17167 on Wednesday — although it had perked up a bit by Thursday to 0.18500. To compare, the rate held firmly above 0.3 for most of December, 2009. Readers may recall GOFO rates went negative back in November 2008 for three whole days. At the time gold bugs said the move reflected a massive shortage in the supply of gold." further down in that same report it say this: "A decline in forward rates implies one of two things: There’s either a scarcity of metal available for swap or lease transactions, or there’s heavy forward selling."

fook me Silver @ $1300, I do hope so, I can retire then....... on a serious note, I have mentioned (as have others) about this 'Indian Floor' price in gold @$1045. Although this is from Nov 2009, it appears to be holding up atm: "(Zero Hedge – Tyler Durden) When two months ago we discussed the IMF’s selling of one eighth of its gold reserves of which as most know by know half was recently acquired by India, we came to the conclusion that the IMF’s proposed naive and subjective purpose for this disposition which was framed as “safeguarding against disruption in the gold market” "Gold has broken out yet again and is up another 1% so far today as it begins to challenge the $1,100/oz mark (according to unofficial IMF estimates, the Reserve Bank of India bought gold at $1,045/oz." has it ever been officially confirmed that the price was indeed $1045 ??

yes some good banter going on....

evening, nice to see you back.

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GF, you must be torn at the minute, between admin duties & 'paper shouters & gold doubters™'.

& who started the 'crowing' ? clue - 'clawing the sky' thread.

apparently I am here to bait & I am a troll. I am also ignorant, paranoid & delusional.....according to RH who is an administrator.

you have absolutely nailed it on the head carbon junkie.

it was a direct goad carbon junkie. I would never post anything about someone's family like that because it's wouldn't sit right with me, & of course it's breaking forum rules. no hard feelings though Wottwotril, I would never think about complaining about things like that.

my points were made very well & proved a point imo. We can be anyone we want on a virtual site, a point worth remembering when posters hang on peoples trading advice. it is very easy to post your GM trades as outlined in my earlier posts via swampy. also, I never did get a reply to the 'german apartments portfolio consortium' question now did I....... the important bit for me is that those who know.....know, & that's what counts. btw, you make a post telling me to spend more time with my wife. Aimed at doing what exactly ? what was your motive for posting that ? I am no-ones fool my virtual internet key tapper. Just look at who is getting rattled by all of this. If people don't like my banter, then ignore it. Yet you & a fair few others feel the need to make a comment aimed at trying to goad me. This speaks volumes to me. I bet 'a pound to a penny' that there is a direct correlation between the posters who made a baited comment & their paper financial holdings & lack of physical metals holdings. Obvioulsy there also was a 24k related dig which I was expecting from one poster.

baiting attempt number 12. thanks.

thanks.

ok sylvester, thanks for that.

no worries on the edit thingy then, let's move on... some words from swampy for you RH: 'Obviously nobody wants or needs to know RH's net worth - we don't need to know if he is playing with a few WON converted into toilet paper DOLLARS or YEN or POUNDS, or a few MILLION name your pieces of TP (like Bubb) - what RH owes the forum is an explanation for all his miraculous trades - after all, RH has just declared that he has only ever made one trade in his life that has turned sour (GOM's words: since edited & appears that RH meant only one silver trade had lost him money) - so all RH has to do is document all his currency and metals trades since he opened his GoldMoney account - after all, everything is on record there so it is not quite telling the truth when RH says he can't remember exactly what his trades were, average buy in price etc etc etc, currency swaps etc etc etc - it obviously is all in the GM history file. One last thing - RH has declared for a very long time now that he has kept 30pc of his net worth in toilet paper currencies (please see the chart in the link below), whilst most is in silver bought at circa $12 an oz - this means that RH has missed out on the one third profit upleg that silver has made in recent times - so, RH has made the second worst trade of his life, that is, not being part of the silver bull run-up from $12 to $18 - this means that RH, by staying in toilet paper, has failed to maximise his earning potential in metals - he has lost a huge opportunity cost profit play, lost out very badly indeed. Of course RH can post all his trades here direct from the GM archives so that we can all see exactly how his trading strategy works - it is all in his GM personal archives, every buy and sell of metals and currencies, with dates and commissions charged by GM, so why should RH suddenly be so shy about his gains, when he has been boasting day in day out for so long here about what a wonderfully astute trader he is? Vedanta Trader - as you very well know there is a huge difference between boasting about net worth (which Bubb does all the time) and boasting about wonderful infallible trading strategies - this is RH's opportunity to tell us all EXACTLY how he has done it. He doesn't need to name precise amounts, all he needs to do is spell out the percentages, the currency values, and the metals buy and sell values etc etc. Very simple indeed. The problem RH has though is that none of his claims will stack up in reality, as double-agent, IRS, myself, and many others have noticed. the ball is in RH's court now.' a nice chart for you RH

ah, you forget I am an IT bod. I also had access to hpc software (same softwrae as this site as it happens) & I know all the functionality that IS possible.

I see you have now edited the yesterdays reply with a bolded bit stating "the silver price" I can't remember seeing that bit yesterday & as the topic was locked so no-one could reply. I assumed you changed that bit late last night or early today? edit - I am not sure if people are aware of this, but this board software allows admins to change posts without altering the timestamp. You can even edit posts without showing an 'edited' statement so it appears as if posts have never been edited. I appreciate that there is a time limit for normal posts where this option is available, but there is a time limit. iirc the normal edit without showing an 'edited' statement is 30 mins ? can any admin person clarify the above words please?

you can easily do that just by talking about percentage values, rather than actual net worth RH. pick a factor at random, either a multiplier or divider for your total net worth, and simply paste in all the trades using this *hidden* factor it's very easy to cut'n'paste all your trades then use this *hidden* factor replacing your actual net trade worth. This would take someone like yourself (who seems tyo like pasting lot's of trading data & charts etc), under an hour surely ?

it's not the worth that bothers me, it's the truth. RH has only ever made one bad trade...apparently, even then he only lost $1-$2 The best of propfessional traders would be happy with that record.

you can post your GM trades very easy without showing ANY personal info, it will detail ONLY the trades & dates/times.