This came across my desk from GATA and GoldOz just now and I hope you will see how it relates to the current plight of your PM investments.
Additional Statement by Bill Murphy, Chairman Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee
to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Washington, D.C., March 25, 2010
On March 23, 2010, GATA Director Adrian Douglas was contacted by a whistleblower by the name of Andrew Maguire. Maguire is a metals trader in London. He has been told first-hand by traders working for JPMorganChase that JPMorganChase manipulates the precious metals markets, and they have bragged to how they make money doing so.
In November 2009 Maguire contacted the CFTC enforcement division to report this criminal activity. He described in detail the way JPMorgan Chase signals to the market its intention to take down the precious metals. Traders recognize these signals and make money shorting the metals alongside JPM. Maguire explained how there are routine market manipulations at the time of option expiry, non-farm payroll data releases, and COMEX contract rollover, as well as ad-hoc events.
On February 3 Maguire gave two days' warning by e-mail to Eliud Ramirez, a senior investigator for the CFTC's Enforcement Division, that the precious metals would be attacked upon the release of the non-farm payroll data on February 5. On February 5, as market events played out exactly as predicted, further e-mails were sent to Ramirez while the manipulation was in progress.
It would not be possible to predict such a market move unless the market was manipulated.
In an e-mail on February 5 Maguire wrote: "It is common knowledge here in London among the metals traders that it is JPM's intent to flush out and cover as many shorts as possible prior to any discussion in March about position limits. I feel sorry for all those not in this loop. A serious amount of money was made and lost today and in my opinion as a result of the CFTC's allowing by your own definition an illegal concentrated and manipulative position to continue."
Expiry of the COMEX April call options is tomorrow, March 26. There was large open interest in strikes from $1,100 to $1,150 in gold. As always happens month after month, HSBC and JPM sell short in large quantities to overwhelm all bids and make unsuspecting option holders lose their money. As predicted by GATA, the manipulation started on March 19, when gold was trading at $1,126. Last night it traded at $1,085.
This is how much the gold cartel fears the CFTC's enforcement division. They thumb their noses at you because in more than a decade of complaints and 18 months of a silver market manipulation investigation nothing has been done to stop them. And this is why JPM's cocky and arrogant traders in London are able to brag that they manipulate the market.
This is an outrage and we are making available to the press the e-mails from Maguire wherein he warns of a manipulative event.
Additionally Maguire informed us that he has tape recordings of his telephone communications with the CFTC, which we are taking the appropriate legal steps to acquire.
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From: Andrew Maguire Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:51 PM To: Ramirez, Eliud [CFTC] Cc: Chilton, Bart [CFTC] Subject: Silver today
The good news in the above is that JPM are running out of time to cover "as many shorts as possible" something alluded to in an article by Neil Charnock of GoldOz recently.
The USD may be headed up but it is for all the wrong reasons as the price differential between US and other rates decreases so does the USD carry trade. This pushes up temporary demand for USD's but also for gold and now that the futures series is finalised we may see a rebound here.
Yes there could be some final pressure on the POG however it will not last for long. We may even see a falling AUD with some strength in the POG which would be great for our gold sector. In any case we have to learn to operate in this environment because this is the markets.
Take care and good trading, CW
SBM Price at posting:
25.5¢ Sentiment: LT Buy Disclosure: Held
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