Almost one year to the day of the Flash Crash, commodities took a spill.
The cause? Simple. More sellers than buyers (love that answer). Why? People have been piling in to commodities (a trade you can apply a ton of leverage to) for the past 10 months. As a result, it should be of no surprise that the dollar rallied today as part of the unwind - see more here. For everyone claiming this is a crash, forget about it. Commodities, including silver, are still way up in bubble territory.
Bubble or not, I did dip my toe in and bought a bit of CEF near the close at what turned out to be a 8.5% discount on the theory of an oversold market (hat tip Kid Dynamite).
Source:Bloomberg
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Commodities Take a Spill
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Just happy to see that crude get blistered.
ReplyDeleteThe Bernank is very happy about this. The proles were lining up with pitchforks.
Welcome back
Headline inflation dropped almost 10% today!
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