What is the size of the total short
physical gold position, or put another way, how much gold from their vaults have the central banks collectively deposited, leased or swapped into the market through the bullion banks?
Not exact matches
GDX is quite popular with investors, with hedge funds using it to take
positions on
gold miners and individual investors using it as an alternative to investing in
physical gold.
Thus the size of the total short
physical position continues to stir controversy, with
Gold Fields Minerals Services sticking to its estimate of 4000 to 5000 tonnes notwithstanding the mountain of research by the
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee and its associates suggesting an amount two to three times as large.
It appears to us that
gold positions traded in London and NY among bullion banks, HFT's, hedge funds, and commodity traders constitute highly levered derivatives with only distant and notional relationships to the
physical substance.
While geopolitical and economic factors are pushing the price of
gold higher, the extreme dislocation between the western Central Bank short
position in
gold via several different forms of paper
gold and the amount of available
physical gold to deliver into buyers» hands is going to move
gold in a way that will shock and awe everyone except maybe the hardiest
gold «bugs.»
And that's what partially drove me to a
position in
physical gold and silver; my insurance policy.
According to securities attorney Avery Goodman, Goldman Sachs and HSBC took major
positions in
physical - hold - in - your - hand
gold last week, while continuing to recommend against buying
gold to their clients!
George Soros dropped his stash of
gold (held in the popular SPDR Gold Trust (GLD)-RRB- while Louis Moore Bacon sold all of his gold holdings in his Moore Capital Management fund with the exception of a modest position in a physical gold ETF, Sprott Physical Gold Trust -LSB-
gold (held in the popular SPDR
Gold Trust (GLD)-RRB- while Louis Moore Bacon sold all of his gold holdings in his Moore Capital Management fund with the exception of a modest position in a physical gold ETF, Sprott Physical Gold Trust -LSB-
Gold Trust (GLD)-RRB- while Louis Moore Bacon sold all of his
gold holdings in his Moore Capital Management fund with the exception of a modest position in a physical gold ETF, Sprott Physical Gold Trust -LSB-
gold holdings in his Moore Capital Management fund with the exception of a modest
position in a
physical gold ETF, Sprott Physical Gold Trust -
physical gold ETF, Sprott Physical Gold Trust -LSB-
gold ETF, Sprott
Physical Gold Trust -
Physical Gold Trust -LSB-
Gold Trust -LSB-...]
I would normally view a book with such a title with considerable skepticism even though, as the previous blog post reveals, I've long been a believer in having a 5 to 10 %
position in some combination of
gold or precious metals stocks, mutual funds or ETFs, or the underlying
physical metals (coins or bullion bars).
GDX is quite popular with investors, with hedge funds using it to take
positions on
gold miners and individual investors using it as an alternative to investing in
physical gold.