Category Archives: GLD

Bottom Fishing?

By dirtydog | Published: July 13, 2010
Since my last post I have gone long Europe due to the recent instabilities in the national budgets of certain countries like Greece which prompted many to question to the viability of the Euro and even the European Union, selling my long dollar position in UUP (April) and purchasing euros / european companies by going [...]
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ETF Portfolio

By dirtydog | Published: January 24, 2010
Today I updated my portfolio allocations. Over the past few months I have sold a great chunk of my TIPs as well as some equities and some riskier bonds. My cash allocation is now at a whopping 56% of my total portfolio. It costs money to stay in cash because of the low interest rates [...]
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Gold and $$$

By dirtydog | Published: December 6, 2009
Gold also sold off last week. Big time. Although fundamentalists still have a case for weaker gold there is a strong technical bear signal (see the volume!!) which I expect will be taken advantage of by technical traders at least for the short term. Notice the mirror image on the dollar, which experienced a blast off on [...]
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