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E.B. Tucker on How to Take Advantage of the Coming Gold Boom, Part 1

• https://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/eb-tucker-o

Chris Lowe, editor, Legacy Inner Circle: E.B., you called the bottom for gold last summer when we talked in August. Since then, gold is up almost 11%. What was it that made you think gold prices had bottomed… and that higher prices were on the way?

E.B. Tucker, editor, Strategic Investor: As we talked about at the time, gold bullion and gold stocks had been taking a beating. Then the fund management industry started throwing in the towel, too.

Last July, The Vanguard Group announced it was shuttering its $2.3 billion Vanguard Precious Metals and Mining Fund. Gold had seen an almost 10% drop in the previous three months. And the fund had dropped 24% in the past year. So Vanguard – one of the world's largest investment firms – just gave up. It turned the fund into something completely different because it felt the need to get away from out-of-favor precious metals miners.

When you see a big change at a fund like that, it's always something to watch. It often signals a bottom in the market.

Chris: Can you give me an example of what you mean?

E.B.: In August 2017, an oil hedge fund called the Astenbeck Master Commodities Fund II shut down. It had lost 30% in the first half of the year. Andy Hall, the legendary oil trader running the fund, said he just couldn't figure out what to do in a falling market. So he shut up shop.

That turned out to be a bottom for oil. It went on a big run up for the rest of August and into September.


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