by Steve St. Angelo
SRSRocco Report
Very few precious metals investors realize how recent trend changes will greatly impact the gold market going forward. The reason many investors fail to grasp the huge change in the gold market is that they look at data or information on an individual basis. To really understand what is going on, we must look at how all segments of the market compare to each other… a BIRD’S EYE VIEW.
Let’s start off with one segment of the gold market that has changed significantly in the past 15 years. The Global Gold Hedge Book hit a peak of nearly 3,100 metric tons (mt) in 1999: