2009-01-09financialsense.com

Plunges of $200 in the gold market require FUEL.

JPMorgan Chase’s swelling of its gold derivatives book by $15 billion in three months [Q3 / 08] was undoubtedly the fuel. The implication here is that the Morgan Chase gold trader in the Comex pit “fireballed” the price of gold by selling dizzying amounts of paper gold [futures] over the period in question.

An incredible feat, in a world that is supposedly starved for capital, this institution somehow saw fit to take $15 billion in notional risk to short the living bleep out of gold.



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