When we look at the gold market, you're sitting here at $2894.7 on a weekly chart of just closes. That would be if it settled like this, a 0.38 percent for the week would be a new all-time high—not saying, it will end up there or not. The markets in what we call, at least what I term, a distribution channel. It's when the market creates a high and low, and it starts just whipping back and forth in there.
For the pattern, you still have higher lows and higher highs—okay, I can live with that. You'd have to take $2886.5 in order to break that pattern. You got down to $2887.60 so far, and we'll see if the market can do anything by breaking under it.
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Over the past 35-years Ira Epstein has developed a reputation for providing clients with easy to use technology and teaching good old fashioned trading know-how. A number of our brokers have over 30-years trading experience. No matter how technology changes the methods of entering orders, there's no replacement for having "been there and done that before". It's the blend of services that brings things together.
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Ira began in the futures markets in 1969. Over the years he worked his way up, starting from the ground up as a "floor runner" culminating with his becoming a Floor Trader. In the mid 1970s Ira decided to make a career shift within the industry to develop both retail and commercial based clientele. His customer base grew to the point whereby in 1984 he founded "Ira Epstein & Company", a trading firm specializing in retail, commercial and self-directed discount futures trading. Along the way Ira became a leader in trading technology out of necessity, due to increased small lot trade volume. He was among the first to embrace the Internet, which as you know has dramatically changed both the way information is delivered and how trading takes place today.
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