Heading into the final hour on Friday, we raised doubts in the Rick's Picks chat room that DaBoyz had the cohones to try and squeeze stocks above daunting layers of supply. And that wasn't our only mistake. Get this: We inadvertently transposed a 667.10 Hidden Pivot target for October Gold that had been disseminated to subscribers Thursday night for purposes of getting risklessly long in Gold. The lamentable result was that, instead of enjoying a fabulously profitable $12 ride from within four ticks of the intraday low, we watched the whole thing from the sidelines. Oh well. We promised to hacksaw off our left hand to atone for this error, but chat-room regulars, a forgiving lot, seemed satisfied with the verbal self-flagellation and-defenestration of your editor. Concerning DaBoyz and their always nefarious intentions, the bears just didn't seem nervous enough on Friday to permit the painful indignity of being hoist by their own scrota. Wrong again. Instead of waiting for the weekend to pass, and with it any bad news that might have killed a short-squeeze on the launching pad, DaBoyz (aka, Dirtbags) applied a final-hour goosing that lifted the Indoos not merely above last week's highs, but above a thick layer of supply created just before stocks collapsed on August 14. The Dirtbags must have felt pretty smug when the final bell rang, since they had left themselves in terrific shape to unload shares into a short-covering frenzy when stocks open Monday morning, or at least sell into a flurry of buying sufficient to hold shares unched-to-slightly-higher for the first crucial minutes of the day. Mushroom-Cloud Offset That's how things should play out, barring the onset of World War III over the weekend. Come to think of it, even World War III might not curtail the ardor of buyers, since anyone
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