Argentus' Golden Quarter

Did you know the Market "Laundry" is a hundred years old! We should not be surprised Wall St failed to bring attention to this by having a party!

Some people debate the existence of cycles in financial markets. They are certainly not regular, and come and go for unknown reasons. Here I look into two pretty large alleged cycles in silver and we can track them over the coming weeks to verify if they are really there or just illusions!

Central Bankers engage in "Price Stabilization". Their actions are supposedly private. Professionalism demands secrecy but total secrecy is difficult to ensure. At what level in the organization would you expect that information "leaks" begin to occur? At the bottom? In the middle? Not likely!

Argentus Maximus: Ruminations on shiny precious metallic electrically conductive silvery stuff, and winning or losing large amounts of hard earned fiat cash while trying to get some for yourself.

What do you do when all roads lead to a swampy quicksand between here and the destination? The "Marines" have already been sent to various locations and time is ticking. Is this 1980 or 1936 or 2014? What game are we gambling in? Is it Chess, Poker, Politics, War or Finance? How much time remains on the clock before Main St dies? And who, where or what is Zugzwang?

Through the ages and through history even up to the present day, some things just repeat over and over. That means we can know roughly what to expect sometimes. But one thing is sure, the characters in past iterations of this cycle are all extremely interesting characters who were larger than life.

Our investment and evaluative judgment can become impaired by strangely little things, things we would never expect to do this.

The dog that didn't bark .... was it called "Accumulation"?

Gold cycles - a status update for some of the more important medium term waves.

There are many cycles in the price of silver. Here is a status update of several of the most important.