Sorry I haven’t been around to post pictures of ugly food, but I had to blow out of here real early tonight, as Bob Dylan and his Merry Band, along with Willie Nelson and John Commie Mellancamp were in town for a great five plus hours of rock & roll.  They were uniformly good, and Dylan was border line great tonight.   Pretty impressive for a 68 year old dude, living legend that he may be.

Willie is 76 which is just freaking incredible, given that he sounds exactly like he does on the radio.   Even John Commie Melons was pretty spry at 58.  Still, they could’ve dropped him from the team and not have had such an odd mix of iconic greats with aging boy popstar.   It makes one wonder — who will Bob tour with next, Vanilla Ice?

Because I just got back, and because I’m out all day tomorrow, there won’t be a Jacksonian Summary today.  Looking over the list, it’s a pottage of offal.  Down almost 3% today, with our money padrones, both gold (price $911.70/oz.) and silver (price $12.90/oz. ) getting beaten up in a summary back alley fashion, purportedly by Treasury Bond Salesman bearing Snidely Whiplash moustaches.

IAMGOLD Corporation (USA) [[IAG]] was the worst of the lot, down over 8%.  I think that means we get a bounce tomorrow, given that there’s strong support at $9.00 (where we bounced today, btw).    I do think that the price of gold goes to $890 or so, here and that the miners are preceding that move.  

 Again, those of you who are lucky enough not to have a full position should be taking this opportunity to add at least some IAG here.   Yeah, we might see lower prices, but not three months from now.    This is stock that I believe will see at least $15 before the year is out, which is a 66% move from here.

The same can be said for Eldorado Gold Corporation (USA) [[EGO]] , Silver Standard Resources Inc. (USA) [[SSRI]] and Silver Wheaton Corp. (USA) [[SLW]] , all bludgeoned today as well.   Again, nibble with a sidelong glance for the great cat named Treasury, but nibble nonetheless.   You shall soon bell that cat.

I expect we’ll get something of a bounce tomorrow — in almost everything — but again would not be surprised if there is some follow through drubbing on some of these, including even [[TBT]] .   I will be out, but may take the opportunity to dial in some more [[TZA]] on a rise tomorrow, just to continue hedging these summer doldrums.

Non-PM Teck Cominco Limited (USA) [[TCK]] got whacked today too, but I think we may get a bounce tomorrow thanks to our friends at Alcoa Inc. [[AA]] .

On my recent non-Jacksonians, [[BIOS]] can easily get back to $5.25 (its 20-day) and Health Grades, Inc. [[HGRD]] still looks very strong here.   Healthcare seems to be a continuing “safe haven” in this period.   Checkout Amgen, Inc. [[AMGN]] for reference.

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My friend Mr. Russell was reconstituting today, just as my enemy Mrs. Pelosi was trying to reconstitute our country’s energy markets.  So you can imagine it was a bit harum scarum.

I will come back later, and blog like the wind in the willows (maybe I’ll have illustrative capabilities back by then), but now it’s off to a super important pool party replete with screaming brats.  Ah, parenthood.

Later.

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Back, and I’ve looked at the JCHP for today, and save for the bizarro behaviour of usually reliable Royal Gold, Inc. [[RGLD]] , it looked like a general consolidation day for the PM’s, which is natural given the large moves a number of them made yesterday.  Eldorado Gold Corporation (USA) [[EGO]] continues to look good here, as do a the juniors I’d mentioned earlier in the day (see last post).

I will try to find out wtf is going on with RGLD this weekend. 

The other good news is that the non precious metals — Thompson Creek Metals Company, Inc. [[TC]] and Teck Cominco Limited (USA) [[TCK]] , as well as ag supplier The Andersons, Inc. [[ANDE]] all look like they are uncoiling out of their bullish flags again.  Keep a close eye for volume increases.

Last, be sure to keep an eye on the biotech pinless hand grenades I’ve tossed around over the last couple of weeks.   A number of them did the astral elevator today, I think because of Russell Reconstitution Day.   They included [[HEB]] , [[CTIC]] and ImmunoGen, Inc. [[IMGN]] .

Lastly, Fly’s chip box chomper of the future, [[ENTR]] had a nice gain today, but more important, it rose on huge (almost 16x average) volume.  I did not see their name in the Russell rebalances, so this volume remains a mystery.  Something to look for on Monday, however, as significant volume is usually… well… significant!

The Jackson’s on Friday:

Name/			%
Ticker	25-Jun	26-Jun	Change		Comments
ANDE	$        29.95	$      30.23	0.93%		Moving nicely out of the bull flag
EGO	9.39	9.40	0.11%		Consolidation day for gold
GDX	39.99	39.20	-1.98%		Ditto
GLD	92.31	92.29	-0.02%		POG broke briefly over $940, then back.
IAG	10.58	10.48	-0.95%		Consolidation day for gold
MON	75.66	75.25	-0.54%		Ditto
NRP	20.83	20.82	-0.05%		Flat again, forming bear flag?
PAAS	19.34	19.08	-1.34%		Held up at the 200 day EMA
RGLD	46.00	42.07	-8.54%		Freakish late day drop.   Be prepared to cut
SLV	13.81	13.90	0.65%		Up with the POS
SLW	8.81	8.72	-1.02%		Held up at the 50 day EMA
SSRI	19.65	19.52	-0.66%		Held up at the 50 day EMA
TBT	51.03	50.84	-0.37%		Near flat today, could be done w. pull back
TC	10.31	10.44	1.26%		Like ANDE moving out of flag
TCK	15.99	16.56	3.56%		Same, looking very strong here
TZA	22.74	22.50	-1.06%		Flattish for a triple.
AVG (daily)			-0.63%
AVG (monthly)			-6.44%
AVG (inception)			15.49%

 Update: The Ozzie’s get it right.   Or at least their Senate does.  Let’s hope our own Senate can be as astute when this criminal theft Al Gore bill comes before them.   Hold your reps accountable on this one, people.

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—-  Back Among Friends —

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C’mon, you know I couldn’t resist a low hanging curve like this one.    But enough about the not-so-mourned paedophile (sic), as it looks like the real Jacksons are breaking out again.  Even with the modified [[TZA]] hedge position, I still came away with a righteous 2.73% up day yesterday for the JCHP.

And that’s not including the sundry “side-bets” I made courtesy of the Chart Addict Casino and Burlesque Review.    I try not to play long there, as it can be “addicting.” 

Yesterday, while the site was down, I played around a little with the Jacksonian Portfolio Presentation again, and while I don’t think I will reveal the actual stock holdings every day, I thought the additional information below might be helpful for you to understand how I am trading within the portfolio to harvest gains and manage risk.   So today, I’ve done away with the “comments” portion in order to show you the actual holdings as of yesterday. 

As a point of clarification, the only change I made yesterday was to sell one half the TZA hedge position at $23.67, taking a little over a dollar loss on 201 shares (I still hold the remaining half).     That left me with a bit over $13,440 in cash in the position.  For the purposes of the weighting, I have cash sitting at an annual return of 2.5%.  

As you will see it was an amazing day yesterday, as silver cleared $14.00 and gold held steady as well, pushing the $940 area (we are flirting with that price again today, despite the rest of the market being down).   I think the miners will likely take a rest today and we may even be in for more consolidation.  The trick is not to get impatient here, and to manage your positions for the next major cycle turn. 

For today, continue to keep an eye on the junior miners, including Jacksonian Eldorado Gold Corporation (USA) [[EGO]] , and non-Jacksonians NovaGold Resources Inc. (USA) [[NG]] , New Gold Inc. (USA) [[NGD]] , Northgate Minerals Corporation (USA) [[NXG]] , Allied Nevada Gold Corp. [[ANV]] , Aurizon Mines Ltd.(USA) [[AZK]] and maybe most important, Rubicon Minerals Corp. (USA) [[RBY]] .  This should be a consolidation day for all of those, so shop with “moth hands.”

As for silvers, they are all strong relative to the market today as the underlying metal is making a nice return over $14 here.  Keep an eye on micro-junior [[EXK]] for action, and also [[CDE]] which seems to be a day ahead of its brethren, and may have a consolidation day today as well.

As for the non-PM’s… I continue to like Teck Cominco Limited (USA) [[TCK]] here, and good old Jacksonian Thompson Creek Metals Company, Inc. [[TC]] might run into trouble again at its 38.2% fib retrace at $10.88.   More in updates to come…

Jacksonian Core Holdings with Cash & Stock Weightings

Name/					Position’s	Number of	Percentage	Weighted
Ticker	24-Jun	25-Jun	% Change		Port Value	Shares	of Port	return
ANDE	$        28.84	$ 29.95	3.85%		$   18,085.75	603.86	10.34%	0.40%
EGO	8.51	9.39	10.34%		8,798.43	937.00	5.03%	0.52%
GDX	38.49	39.99	3.90%		12,103.51	302.66	6.92%	0.27%
GLD	91.45	92.31	0.94%		10,616.44	115.01	6.07%	0.06%
IAG	9.99	10.58	5.91%		13,045.62	1,233.05	7.46%	0.44%
MON	76.16	75.66	-0.66%		4,437.53	58.65	2.54%	-0.02%
NRP	20.92	20.83	-0.43%		8,646.74	415.11	4.94%	-0.02%
PAAS	18.47	19.34	4.71%		11,615.62	600.60	6.64%	0.31%
RGLD	43.74	46.00	5.17%		12,710.69	276.32	7.27%	0.38%
SLV	13.68	13.81	0.95%		11,218.52	812.35	6.41%	0.06%
SLW	8.34	8.81	5.64%		8,557.48	971.34	4.89%	0.28%
SSRI	18.65	19.65	5.36%		11,431.07	581.73	6.53%	0.35%
TBT	53.03	51.03	-3.77%		10,165.34	199.20	5.81%	-0.22%
TC	9.63	10.31	7.06%		4,836.52	469.11	2.76%	0.20%
TCK	16.12	15.99	-0.81%		10,631.65	664.89	6.08%	-0.05%
TZA	24.86	22.74	-8.53%		4,581.18	201.46	2.62%	-0.22%
AVG (daily)			2.48%		$ 161,482.09	Equity value	92.32%
AVG (monthly)			-5.89%		$   13,440.07	Cash	7.68%	0.00%
AVG (inception)			16.22%		$ 174,922.16	Tot Port Value	100.00%	2.73%

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Sorry for my lack of attendance today, Jackson fans, sometimes I have to attend to things that are in the market but not of the market.   If that sounds vaguely quizzical, then it’s served its purpose.

Unfortunately, whilst returning from one such errand, I noticed one of my stops had triggered.   I say “unfortunately” because I am a very reluctant seller of any Jacksonians, unless I’m a full seller, as in the case of the unabashed drunkard Tesoro Corporation [[TSO]] (which continues to toddle down the streets of Skid Row, stopping only to barf on the brogans of the local constabulary).

   Unable to part with my Monsanto Company [[MON]] altogether, however, I had set a stop on half the shares upon a break of $77.25.   Much to my rue and deep chagrin, said stop was triggered today, and I was left with only half my position.   Offsetting that mournful loss was the addition of another $4,530 in cash with which to gamble at quoits whilst smoking Churchillian Monte Cristos and imbibing  tinctures of absinthe & laudanum.

One of these days I will get around to giving you a picture of the actual shares and dollar amounts of these holdings (hint– they all started at $10,000 each) , so it won’t all seem such a smokey mystery.   In the meantime, you’ll just have to make due with the raw return numbers as you have been doing, along with an idea of the cash talings left over from various sales profitable and not so.   

One last point… the “Three N’s of the Apocalypse”  NovaGold Resources Inc. (USA) [[NG]] , New Gold Inc. (USA) [[NGD]] and Northgate Minerals Corporation (USA) [[NXG]] all looked very healthy today, as did Jacksonian Eldorado Gold Corporation (USA) [[EGO]] .   It seems the golds are making out a bit better than our silvers, which have been hit by the same “industrial malaise” that afflicted not only Jimmy Carter throughout the 70’s and up to today, but even our faithful friend and ally, The Fly.   Even Teck Cominco Limited (USA) [[TCK]] which has made a valiant rebound, seemed tired by Bernake’s machinations today. 

What can one trust but the original money, one asks?  What indeud?

Name	23-Jun	24-Jun	% Change		Comments
ANDE	$ 28.23	$   28.84	2.16%		Weird candle today. Stochs turning up.
EGO	8.07	8.51	5.45%		Nice continuation.  50-day @ $8.60
GDX	37.33	38.49	3.11%		Back over the 50-day quick ($38.20)
GLD	90.92	91.45	0.58%		50 day @ 91.60, POG $931
IAG	9.58	9.99	4.28%		Nice continuation.
MON	79.30	76.16	-3.96%		Sold half (58.65 shs) @ $77.23 (note cash below).
NRP	20.65	20.92	1.31%		Still hanging in there, facing my wrath
PAAS	18.31	18.47	0.87%		Still weak, as is silver in general.
RGLD	42.43	43.74	3.09%		Broke the downtrend line nicely.
SLV	13.62	13.68	0.44%		POS still under $14.
SLW	8.21	8.34	1.58%		Still looking for 200 day EMA @ $8.40
SSRI	17.99	18.65	3.67%		Still having trouble getting over 200 day EMA
TBT	51.85	53.03	2.28%		Treasury auctions over, I guess?
TC	9.42	9.63	2.23%		Rebounded, since I sold more, of course.
TCK	15.51	16.12	3.93%		Still bouncing, but w. less vigour (sic)
TZA	25.57	24.86	-2.78%		Down, but not as much as you’d think. Holding.
AVG (daily)			1.77%
AVG (monthly)			-8.02%
AVG (inception)			13.09%
Cash ( 000’s)			$       8.67

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Yes, I’ve been down here all day stacking cans of chicken stock and chewing tobacky with the Devil Dawg, whilst we discuss Obamacare Armageddon scenarios and the influence of Frederick Heidegger on the work of the BeeGees, post-Staying Alive.

Okay, so it’s not that bad yet, but I’ve “taken some steps” ovah heah, as I mentioned I would last night.   One of them was to cut back a bit on certain plays where I had some substantial gains (in the case of Silver Wheaton Corp. (USA) [[SLW]] and Thompson Creek Metals Company, Inc. [[TC]] ) or wanted to reduce some exposure due to flaccidity Eldorado Gold Corporation (USA) [[EGO]] — all in order to raise cash.  

I sold 25% each of the SLW and EGO and another one third of the TC, as it broke $9.25.    I now have just a third of my original 1,407 shares of TC purchased at $7.11 left.  This second batch was sold at quite a bit less than the first ($11.21), but still at a 30% premium.

The SLW was sold at $8.21 right before the close, and the EGO at $8.12, at 6.35% and 1.5% returns, respectively.  Ugly and the folk in the PPT will tell you how reluctant I was to part with even that much, but a necessary cash raiser for our protective [[TZA]] , of which we purchased $10,000 worth at $24.82(as mentioned this morning in the last post’s comments), similar to our other “initial purchases” in the JCHP.    I reserve the right to add more in $10k increments, and may do so tomorrow, depending on where this market is headed.

I am also looking at [[SMN]] as a possible add tomorrow, and Natural Resource Partners LP [[NRP]] as a possible cut, again depending on what the commodity movers do.  Stay tuned.

Name	22-Jun	% Change	23-Jun	% Change		Comments
ANDE	$ 28.45		$ 28.23	-0.77%		50-day @ $27.53, could “touch & go.”
EGO	7.65		8.07	5.49%		Strong launch off the 200 day today (7.64)
GDX	35.74		37.33	4.45%		Also bounced off the 200 day EMA (35.71)
GLD	90.54		90.92	0.42%		$90 seems like support/
IAG	9.04		9.58	5.97%		Nice rebound from yesterday’s plunge.
MON	78.12		79.30	1.51%		Continue to watch that $77.25 level.
NRP	20.60		20.65	0.24%		Rebounded weakly, may sell tomorrow.
PAAS	18.02		18.31	1.61%		Need some follow through tomorrow
RGLD	41.12		42.43	3.19%		Closed just about 50 day ($42.27)
SLV	13.54		13.62	0.59%		Tepid response, but POS up 15 cents tonight.
SLW	7.97		8.21	3.01%		Needs to reclaim 200 day @ 8.40, or die trying.
SSRI	17.56		17.99	2.45%		same as above, 200 day is @18.91
TBT	53.28		51.85	-2.68%		Could easily get back to 49.25 before bounce.
TC	9.40		9.42	0.21%		Sold another 1/3 at $9.24.
TCK	14.57		15.51	6.45%		Nice bounce off 200 day EMA @ 14.62
TZA	24.82		25.57	3.02%		New hedge entrant, up nominally today.
AVG (daily)				2.20%
AVG (monthly)				-9.93%
AVG (inception)				11.03%
Cash ( 000’s)				$   4.14

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[[AZK]] – big buy at EOD on Friday — over 20% of the day’s stock traded in the last 30 minutes.

[[CDE]] – Very high volume (over four times average) white doji after ten (!) red down days in a row.  Bears watching.

[[DROOY]] — 29% of all trading in one five minute period on Friday (3:50-:55) drove the stock up 43 cents (5%).

[[EGO]] This Jackson pick also had almost three times volume on Friday.  Strong into close until last five minutes, with a massive sell stick.  Ended with an inverted (white) hammer, volume indicating bottoming.

[[FRG]] Could get interesting over $4.21  — handle breakout?  Also, E8’s possible AEM buyout pick.

[[GRS]] Could be a short here, on a break of $6.90.  Weird EOD activity on Friday.

[[IAG]] Again, almost 3x normal volume on an up day for this Jackson, but massive last ten minute red candles give pause (1.4 mm shares out of 9mm total).

[[NGD]] Another that looks great on the daily chart, but then that last five minute plunge gives one pause.   Breaking out up til then — could’ve been opex.  Looking for handle breakout here.

[[NXG]] Massive volume white doji, but last ten minutes blood red too.  Still on trend.

[[RBY]] Maybe the best pick of the day, breaking to new all time highs on Friday.  STILL had EOD selling the last ten minutes!  What was going on?   I guess we’ll see soon enough…

Developing…

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