I will share something with the forum that I learned recently.

Putin has been buying gold at a furious rate in the last coupla' months, and that is the real reason for this abnormal rise you will not read in our media.

My wife has read about this stealth buying the Russian government has been doing in the Russian news.

I wish I had known about this much sooner as I likely would have declined this attempt at a short. But who knows how it will all turn out and I will likely stick with my puts for at least a few more days because my positions have declined so much anyways there is not much left to lose anyways at this point. And besides, the trade has not quite yet failed, we are not as yet holding well above the previous highs....

Anyways, good luck to everyone.

Cheers!

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