The Gold Trader
Full-time Gold trader with 13 years in the market. Former U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe. Every week, I explain what's driving Gold and how I'm trading it.
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- Top 3%
- Best rank seen
- #15
- Posts
- 11
- Reactions per post
- 10
- Reactions tracked
- 124
- Tickers covered
- 1
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Sep 10, 2026
last 30 days
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Most-reacted post we have seen: A Treasury story: how the government sells and buys the same bonds — 20 reactions on Aug 23, 2026.
Recent posts
- With oil past $100, in-line CPI isn't good enough for Gold [GOLD MARKET MOVERS: Sep 09-11]
Hello traders! Our whole trading week gets squeezed into Thursday (ECB & PPI) and Friday (CPI) and my trading plan is mostly about looking for scalp opportunities (both directions) since there’s not enough time left for a proper swing to develop. Friday’s CPI is the last inflation number we’ll get before FOMC on September 15-16. Brent has just crossed $100 on US-Iran conflict escalation and hike pricing has already moved higher. The odds are now ~ 60% for September and ~87% for December. With energy prices rising, we now need the core numbers of PPI and CPI to come in soft enough to keep that…
- Gold in holiday mode: real levels to watch this week
- Gold’s $4,356 Risk
- Inflation: made in the USA [GOLD MARKET MOVERS: Sep 01-04]
- Warsh finally told us his plan (just don't call it forward guidance)
- Nobody knows what Warsh will talk about
- Fresh money pushed Gold up to $4,632 - but there’s a catch
- A Treasury story: how the government sells and buys the same bonds
- The trick to reading stale Fed minutes - and why they still matter [GOLD MARKET MOVERS: Aug 19-21]
- The snake eating its tail: how US policy keeps creating the problem it's trying to fix
- Gold Pre-CPI update [Aug 12]
- The one Gold rule that matters this week: never trust a single print [GOLD MARKET MOVERS: Aug 10-14]
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