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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Article See new posts Conversation Sid @sidrmsh Humanity's original store of value 1 1 10 555 TL;DR Gold crossed $5,200 this week. It didn't gap there on a headline or a panic bid. It ground higher through the kind of persistent, un-charismatic buying that most people ignore until the chart forces them to pay attention. This is an asset that absorbed three years of positive real rates, the most aggressive Fed tightening cycle since Volcker, and a crypto bull market that was supposed to render it obsolete. It's up over 200% from its late-2022 lows near $1,620. If you've been waiting for a pullback to build a position, the market has been telling you something for two years and you haven't been listening. I'm not here to write a gold bug manifesto. I own Bitcoin and most of my wealth is in it. I've been in crypto since 2015. But the trade sitting in front of us right now, the one with the best risk-adjusted setup acr

TL;DR Gold crossed $5,200 this week. It didn't gap there on a headline or a panic bid. It ground higher through the kind of persistent, un-charismatic buying that most people ignore until the chart forces them to pay attention. This is an asset that absorbed three years of positive real rates, the most aggressive Fed tightening cycle since Volcker, and a crypto bull market that was supposed to render it obsolete. It's up over 200% from its late-2022 lows near $1,620. If you've been waiting for a pullback to build a position, the market has been telling you something for two years and you…

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