Fake News in Gold – TraderStef on Operation Freedom – Live w/Dr. Dave Janda on WAAM 1600AM Talk Radio, Feb. 3, 2019

Originally published by TraderStef at CrushTheStreet.

This past weekend I had the pleasure of being a returning guest on live talk radio on Dr. Dave Janda’s Operation Freedom. Live interviews are always a blast, with only one downside: the brief time slots require that you stick to a focused topic plan that always ends up wandering into unexpected territory. Maybe we will continue with a fake news topic during the next interview, but that depends on what happens in the markets between now and then. My next scheduled appearance is Mar. 24 from 3-3:30pm EST. I received numerous emails after the show from folks who wanted to know if I keep any notes that link out to all the material referenced. Here is the interview on YouTube and some notes to follow along with that link to articles, graphics, gold charts, and other interview material referenced during the show.

Operation Freedom w/Dr. Dave Janda – Feb. 3, 2019

Operation Freedom w/Dr. Dave Janda – Feb. 3, 2019

1) Fake: The stock market has outperformed gold since 1999.

Truth: Gold has outperformed the stock market, particularly since the turn of the century.

Gold hits an all-time high in 72 currencies – FXSTREET, Jan. 2019

Gold Has Beaten the Market Over Multiple Time Periods – Frank Holmes, Jan. 2019

 

2) Fake: The Golden Cross (50/200 moving average crossover) is a dangerous trap that triggers the cartel to manipulate the price of gold downward. All technical breakouts and breakdowns in gold and silver are signals that usually reverse.

Truth: Gold performs very well following a Golden Cross.

There are several types of moving averages. The most commonly used are the simple moving average (SMA) and exponential moving average (EMA). Moving averages are very useful and insightful when used correctly, but they create havoc when used improperly or misinterpreted. By their very nature, they are lagging indicators, and the analyst must take into consideration the overall time frame, the selected candlestick time length, and overall market conditions (i.e., primary bull accumulation phase vs. secular bull market) before coming to any conclusions.

Thoughts on Primary & Secular Bull vs Bear, GoldenCross, 50MA, EMAs, 2009-2011 – TraderStef, Aug. 2016

 

 

3) Fake: Technical analysis is irrelevant because the markets are manipulated.

Truth: “You cannot plan for what Mother Nature has in store” – Jim Sinclair, Feb. 3

Poker Face Weather With Fibonacci and Gold – Technical Analysis… “A few lost souls remain beholden to a religion that ‘feels’ the precious metals market has a master behind the curtain controlling its every break-up or breakdown no matter how miniscule or large. Therefore, technical analysis is irrelevant due to a cartel of overlords that freakishly defy math, and nobody should bother with math because it is a method of madness smothered in futility, as every market is infinitely rigged… One of my favorite past-times watching Mother Nature spin out from chaos one of her most beautiful visuals and repetitious patterns that is viewable from above the Earth is her Fibonacci sequence.

Since it is a fact that government manipulates the weather and you suck in their aluminum- and barium-laced, brain damaging chemtrails, electromagnetic pulses, and any forecast model by government-sanctioned meteorologists that parade across your dumb-phone, desktop, laptop, or idiot box, it is reasonable to assume that weather forecasting should be ignored from this point forward. Forecasting the weather no longer matters because math no longer matters due to all the weather folks colluding with the global warming cartel. I hope you are not a farmer, drive for a living, or participate in any activity ‘in the weather.’” – TraderStef, Jan. 2019

 

4) Fake: Gold is a barbaric pet rock relic and central banks are not buying it.

Truth: Central bank gold buying has surged to a 50-year high in 2018. Central banks are holding at least 33,000 tonnes, or 17% (see WGC graphic below) of all the gold ever mined into existence. Their gold purchases have risen at a robust pace since the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

“Well, ya know, what’s interesting. Gold is still significant. I ask myself, if it is a relic, with a long history, why is there a Trillion dollars held in gold by the worlds central banks, plus, the IMF and all the other financial institutions if its worthless and meaningless, why is everybody still holding it?” – Alan Greenspan, Apr. 2018

Central Banks’ Gold-Buying Spree Reaches 50-Year High – ZeroHedge, Jan, 2019

Central Bank Gold Purchases Hit A Record In 2018 – SRSrocco Report, Feb. 2019

Total above ground gold mined through history is 190k+ tonnes – World Gold Council

 

5) Fake: There is plenty of gold. I can easily buy coins online and supply is not tight.

Truth: There is not much gold to go around. Astute business professionals are aware of the facts and are in the process of accumulating gold.

Billionaire Sam Zell Buys Gold for First Time in Bet on Tight Supply – Bloomberg, Jan. 2019

High-Grading: Major mining operations brought forward future supply by mining their highest grade ore deposits first and rebalancing their books after gold’s decline in price off the 2011 high. That may have helped extend peak gold production from 2015 to a later year, but peak discoveries already occurred.

Mining Sector Hit Hard – They Are High-Grading Deposits – Brent Cook, Oct. 2014

 

Peak Gold – Biggest Gold Story Not Being Reported… “South Africa produced over 1,000 tonnes of gold in 1970 but production has fallen to below 250 tonnes in recent years. This is a collapse as these are levels last seen in 1922 and happened despite the massive technological advances of recent years and more intensive mining practices.” – Goldcore, Mar. 2017

World Gold Council Chairman: We’re Reaching Peak Gold… “The world may have already produced the most gold in a year it ever will… Production is likely to plateau at best, before slowly declining as demand rises, especially given global political risks and robust purchases by consumers.” – Bloomberg, Sep. 2017

Gold Mine Production… “At a country level, China was the largest producer in the world in 2017 and accounted for around 13% of total global production.” – World Gold Council, Apr. 2018

“We Are Running Out of Gold” – Goldcorp’s Ian Telfer (PART 1/3) – Kitco News, Oct. 2017

Goldcorp-Newmont and Barrick-Randgold Deals Point to More Mergers & Acquisitions – Ahead of the Herd, Jan. 2019

I did not have a chance to cover the following fake news data point, but I was able to mention Jim Rickards’ book, “The New Case For Gold,” as recommended reading for the trolls and folks who are lost in a forest of misinformation.

 

6) Fake: There is not enough gold to back the current fiat currency system.

Truth:

“If you go back to the gold standard at the old lower price, you’re going to have to reduce the money supply to maintain the parody. That is contractionary and depressionary, and that blunder contributed to the Great Depression. Gold did not cause the Great Depression, but getting the price of gold wrong did contribute to it. That was not a problem with gold. That was a problem with the politically determined price… Ben Bernanke confirmed to me face-to-face that gold did not constrain the money supply of the United States during the Great Depression. Anyone who says that gold caused the Great Depression has his facts wrong because as I say, it was political decisions and discretionary monetary policy, not gold that caused it.

Everyone says you can’t have a gold standard, because there’s not enough gold. There is always enough gold, you just have to get the price right. I am not saying that we will have a gold standard. I am saying if you have anything like a gold standard, it will be critical to get the price right. The analytical question is, you can have a gold standard if you get the price right; what is the non-deflationary price? What price would gold have to be in order to support global trade and commerce, and bank balance sheets, without reducing the money supply? The answer is $10,000 an ounce. I use a 40% backing of the M1 money supply. Some people argue for 100% backing. Historically, it’s been as low as 20%, so 40% is my number. If you take the global M1 of the major economies, times 40%, and divide that by the amount of official gold in the world, the answer is approximately $10,000 an ounce.” – Jim Rickards

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