Fairly Priced Yellow Metal Could Still be Gold Mine for Option Writers

Good afternoon. This is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for November 10th. Well, so often in the investment world, we’re all looking for the next best buy, or which stock is about to take off, or which piece of real estate has been overlooked and is probably going to be increasing in value. Option selling, especially on commodities, is probably the only investment around where you can identify fair value and actually predict a market to go sideways in price and to prosper from it. Quite often looking for the next big winner in the stock market or in a commodities market is what everyone is scrambling trying to do. In 2017, some of our best investments were identifying fair value markets. We in think in 2018 we probably have a similar list coming up and we’re starting to take positions accordingly. Precious metals have a lot of interest right now. We think that gold and silver are going to be very well supported throughout the remainder of 2017 and probably the beginning of 2018, as well. A lot of investors are trying to diversify away from the stock market and that does include being long some precious metals. Of course, the stock market is precariously high right now. That has some gold fever taking place, as well I’m sure – and of course, you have North Korea, you have Saudi Arabia, you have things going on in Asia – these are all nice supporting factors for the markets of gold, and silver, and platinum. What’s so interesting right now is the third leg required for the gold market, in our opinion, to have a sustained rally, and that would be inflation. And we simply don’t have any now. We don’t see any coming anytime in the near future. This is providing a very stable mark in the precious metals. The gold market we do see having a $100 trading range. We see gold right now trading at approximately $1300 an ounce. We do see it getting up into the high $1300’s – probably in the next six to twelve months. We also see it testing the downside somewhat. It might go down as low as $1200. But we do see this probably being a collar on this market and, you can use the same parameters for silver, as well. One of our very best investments in 2017 was predicting fair value markets. We had a couple. We had coffee. We had natural gas and, we certainly had precious metals. We are positioning with this in mind for 2018 and, we think 2018 is going to be a very good year based on these facts. We’re shorting precious metals, up some sixty to seventy percent from the current price and, we love going long from thirty percent below the going market value because we are slightly bullish on the market, as well. One fundamental factor that changed in 2017 and that was in the crude oil market. For the first time in decades the United States has been able to export as much crude oil as they want. So, instead of the market taking a tail spin in October, November, and December, this year, large exports left the United States. That, along with cuts from production from the OPEC nations has propelled the market to heights not seen in approximately three years. That did stop us out of some of our crude oil recently. We are going to change the parameters on crude oil. We think it’s still going to be kind of a sideways market over the next year or two but, we do have some of the definitive bearishness that takes place in winter each year, probably alleviating. So, the deep sell-off that takes place in the fourth quarter with now large exports leaving the United States, those might be a thing of the past. We’re going to be adjusting our parameters on the price of crude oil going forward. We now think that petroleum prices are likely also a fair value market – practically a widget if you will – especially with the United States about to produce ten million barrels a day. That will keep large spikes up in price from happening, as well. Anyone wanting more information from OptionSellers.com can visit our website. If you’re interested in becoming a client of ours, you can certainly contact our headquarters in Tampa, Florida and ask Rosie about becoming one. As always, it’s great chatting with you and looking forward to doing so again in two weeks. Thank you.