Stocks And Precious Metals Charts - The Weakness In The Bond Market

By Jesse of Jesse's Cafe Americain

Thursday, April 10, 2025 5:32 PM EDT

Stocks gave back a significant portion of the snap back relief rally that Trump triggered with his well-timed announcement on his twitter platform, Truth Social.

Rallies in bear markets and stiff declines tend to be violent, especially when they represent the concerted effort by a number of powerful insiders and their official enablers to 'strafe the lifeboats' of those trying to hedge their portfolios, and additionally those who are speculating to the short side.

But this is nothing new. But it seems new to a whole new crop of punters, who don't have the experience or the knowledge of history of how these things go.

Wall Street feeds on them like sharks, while cajoling them with diversions, and false praise.

Gold and silver rallied again, as the Dollar plummeted.

It is said that it was the weakness in the bond market that caused Trump to blink.

I suspect it was the collective leaning on his neck by his gaggle of billionaire backers, who saw they kingdom starting to shudder.

VIX of course rose.

This type of violent, whipsaw action is fairly typical of bear markets. It is. I have traded through a number of them now. There is nothing new in this, except perhaps that the rules and regulations have been significantly eroded by the moneyed interests over the past thirty years.

My best advice for most 'investors' is to take some solid long term positions in safe havens with reasonable returns, and stay away from the locus of the conflagration.

And for those who are professionals, who are fewer than they think, you don't need any advice from me, except to place at risk only 'cool money' and don't let greed draw you into leveraged one way positions.

But, no one listens really. I talked myself blue in the face in the tech bubble crash of 2001-2002 trying to inform people. And there is no warning a people determined to be rich, especially if they think they are exceptional in any way.

Have a pleasant evening.

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