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Oil crashed since then in the same way gold and silver did as the dollar rocketed. Must be manipulation? Yeah right. Either I'm the guy doing the manipulation since I called it to the day both times or there has to be another answer.

Investors love theories of manipulation. After all, manipulation can be anything so no one can disprove the theory. I have a couple of problems with manipulation. One is that even if it's true, it's noise, not signal.

Let's say you believe gold is being manipulated down and that's the only factor in its price. Gold closed at $803 on Friday, do you buy or do you sell? Me, I wouldn't touch a market with a ten foot pole if manipulation was the only factor in price. What? You think you can outspend the Fed? I don't think so.

Even if it's true, manipulation generates no clear buy or sell signals. Are financial markets manipulated? Are you kidding? Even the guys screaming about manipulation the loudest are trying to manipulate the market. All financial markets are manipulated, big deal.

The second problem I have with manipulation theories is what I call the green socks and the tiger problem. I'm wearing green socks and there is no tiger in the room. Both statements are perfectly true and both are perfectly meaningless.

Three banks have shorted more silver than ever produced since Christ was a corporal and silver has gone down. Saddam Hussein was a bad person and 3000 brave Americans died on 9/11. I'm wearing green socks and there is no tiger in the room.

Do you see the problem? When someone wants to confuse you, he tells you perfectly true and perfectly meaningless statements. I was just listening to a radio show where the speaker was convinced gold has been hammered down and the only reason was the Fed shorting gold.

If it was true, and it's not, it would be the most important buy signal in history. Here's why. All shorts have to be covered. If the Fed is short 10 trillion contracts of gold, you should get on your knees and thank Bernanke. Because if they shorted 10 trillion contracts, they have to cover 10 trillion contracts and that's going to drive the price of gold from here to Jupiter.

Manipulation exists and it's meaningless. But I have showed, both on March 17th and on July 14th that there are more valid signals. The most valid buy or sell signal that you can possibly get is emotion. When everyone is fearful, you should buy and when everyone is greedy, you should sell. It's that simple. Everyone hates hearing it but markets are not complex, they are simple. You should buy when things are cheap and you should sell when they are dear.