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Russell Clark's avatar

All roads lead to gold

miners’ lamps cut through the dark,

earth yields its bright soul.

From PHS

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Powell sprinkles treats

While winter’s yen lifts silver

Revelation nears

From JF

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Based Money

6h

Christ child lights the way

zephyr soughs, resolute pine

stocking blooms black coal

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Tom O’Hara's avatar

My forecast correct

Wealth blossoms, though joy eludes

My wife still hates me

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Russell Clark's avatar

Existential angst suits haiku well

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Assad Abdulla's avatar

Trump barks, storms the air

America dreams, pockets thin

China strides quietly

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Andy Fately's avatar

Gold and silver shine

Debt and fiat, both shiver

How cold the winter?

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Russell Clark's avatar

How could I expect anything less from the "FX poet"

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Andy Fately's avatar

😁

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Andrew Homsi's avatar

Fundamental Thoughts

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Southern tides shift out,

I'll go long July Soybeans.

Ooo! Frost in Brazil.

--In Victor Sperandeo's Methods of a Wall Street Master, he tells a story about addressing a group of traders by asking them, “If the tide shifts out off the coast of Peru, would you be a buyer or a seller of soybeans?”

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Russell Clark's avatar

very good

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Andrew Homsi's avatar

Trading in Central Park

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Should I place the trade?

I watch the snow fall outside,

short the S&P.

--It's a play on Edward M. Saunder's "Stock Prices and Wall Street Weather".

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Andrew Homsi's avatar

The Weathered Trader

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I watch seasons change,

man's view toward risk...the same.

Is now different?

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Thomas's avatar

The cave he enters

This bear appears quite merry

Belly full of gold

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Russell Clark's avatar

very good

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Seymore Batts's avatar

Warm country sauna

Brow sweat, peachy window sun

Open door, time to sell

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Russell Clark's avatar

very evocative

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JF's avatar

My second entry:

Snow falls upon th’ heath

Any bears roam Hampstead ponds?

Raring to short bonds

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D1bDub's avatar

Soft rain on stone roofs

coins golden like honeybees

balance found in bloom.

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Russell Clark's avatar

very good

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Duane McMullen's avatar

The Graph's Right Edge

fear of hard losses

the graph's right edge smiles coyly

dreams of being right

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ryan's avatar

Frost creeps up the curve

Stalking horse watches the herd

Hooves shatter thin ice

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Tony T's avatar

Yen carry unwinds

Forest of debt is burning

Monkeys cull or feast?

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