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Trader Dan Comments On The January US Treasury Debt Holdings Data

Dear CIGAs,

Following is a chart depicting the reported holdings of US Treasury debt by some of the largest creditor nations.

Each month the Treasury reports this data and each month we plot it to attempt to gain some insight into who is financing the continued profligacy of the US. Last month the numbers

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Trader Dan Comments On This Month’s Treasury International Flows Data

Dear CIGAs,

Following are a few charts detailing the release of this month’s Treasury International Flows data for the month of January 2010.

A few salient points –

Every asset category saw a drop in purchases from the previous month whether it was debt or equities. What strikes me however is the continued sell

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In The News Today

Dear CIGAs,

I would like you to take a quiz. I am sure 90% of you will be shocked by the results.

Call the servicer of your mortgage and ask them to identify who owns it. You will be stone walled like you have never been in your life.

Continue up the line of

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Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs,

It appears that we are back to the old familiar pattern of strength in the Dollar bringing in algorithm selling of commodities and by connection, gold. Friday was a bit of a break from that norm as it now appears that we had a bout of pre-weekend short covering in the European

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Japanese Yen CIGA Eric

Volume continues to shrink as it markets time at support. This bullish tape awaits a technical trigger.

Japanese Yen (FXY):

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Quick Note on Gold Wave Analysis CIGA Eric

Please do not confuse my Gold Wave Analysis with Elliot Wave analysis. It is completely different.

Cycles, energy of

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Weekly Action In The Euro

Dear CIGAs,

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Gold Wave Analysis

There an old Irish proverb that says,

If you’re not strong you’d better be clever.

When you’re fighting the paper monster, you better be clever.

The time window has closed on the C-wave advance. The duration of the run was a bit longer than the mean estimate, but it did not

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Jim Sinclair’s Commentary

The latest on gold backing.

Buba opposes backing EMF with gold Sun Mar 14, 2010 3:17pm GMT

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Bundesbank would oppose any government initiative to use its gold reserves as backing for a European Monetary Fund (EMF), a spokeswoman said.

German magazine Focus reported on Saturday that the

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