Have to tell you Dan, the level of vileness off many of those websites with respect to your views and opinions is sad….breathtakingly sad…one may not agree, one may be wrong….but holy cow, investing/trading is not a binary equation….nor is it a sport, it is a very serious vocation in which one is growing or protecting their wealth vehicle…Thanks for being there…for continuing to provide your insight…very much appreciated here.

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Many thanks for the kind words my friend.

I could not agree with you more. Back when I was advocating the GATA view, ( during a time that the Dollar was cratering) I was beloved by the gold and silver cult. However, as soon as the bull market broke down, and as a trader I went with the chart and began to realize that no matter what was happening in the outside markets these guys never changed their bullish tune, it dawned on my mind that this had morphed into a type of cult.

As a side note – I have had some personal experiences with cults due to my Christian faith and had seen firsthand what those had done to the people in them. When I saw the same symptoms in many folks involved in the gold and silver camps, i then understood why so many can spout such vile things and hurl such epithets over a lousy piece of metal.

One of the main symptoms of a cult is group think. Challenge that, and you are not merely disagreed with, you become HATED.

A very similiar thing is occurring in the trump camp. If you dare to speak anything their beloved “father”, you are attacked, denounced, vilified, cursed and of course, hated.

You are so right – this is about making informed decisions to try to protect our life’s savings and increase our wealth so that we have something to pass on to our children when we depart this scene. It it not about singing from the same hymn book year after year after year after year, blindly refusing to recognize the obvious.

I long ago learned to tune out their hatred and ignore their venom. what they think about me bothers me not a whit because to be concerned about someone’s opinion of yourself, you have to first respect that person. I have no respect whatsoever for that crowd. They have ruined the lives of too many people and have no functioning conscience.

hope your weekend is a good one. Too bad it ends so quickly and the markets start up again so we get to play with the madness for yet another week.