Late last week, we got filled on a debit put spread signal in the gold ETF $GLD. Monday we have seen a continued flight to quality with heavy buyers in both gold and Treasuries flooding the market.
Click the video below to see how we are going to adjust our position to try and get further leverage should gold return to normal levels.
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