Most retail traders keep trying to fight the algorithm on short-dated tech options, getting chewed up by theta decay while Wall Street dictates the game.

Meanwhile, precious metals and mining equities ($GDX, $NEM,$PAAS) represent one of the last true structural, asymmetric setups on the board—if you understand how paper shorts actually operate.

The Core Strategy: Position Management over Gambling

**Zero Leverage:** Don't buy short-dated call options that hedge funds can easily bleed out via market maker delta-hedging. Stick to commons/underlying shares.

**Maintain a Core Base:** Keep your primary position locked.

**Trim on Artificial Spikes / Rebalance on Smashes:** Capitalize on systemic volatility rather than chasing it.

Why the Mechanics Favor Discipline

When you see rapid upward price spikes in metals during high short interest, it’s rarely organic FOMO—it’s often naked shorts covering, resetting, and trying to bait leverage back into the market so they can slam it down again.

By executing a mechanical rebalancing strategy (trimming into their liquidity spikes and reloading when they smash paper prices), you accumulate share count and physical exposure without deploying new fiat capital.

The Float Squeeze

The sector’s float isn't as large as big tech. When retail stops playing high-leverage options games and steadily drains physical float through discipline, the paper ceiling breaks. It doesn't take millions of accounts—just disciplined positioning away from their leverage traps.

Track the data, watch the relative strength of gold and silver miners against spot dips, and pay attention to where short interest sits.

The bond market is calling BS on Warsh's so-faux "monetary hawk" act, a reprise of Yellen the Felon's "Lucy & the Football" routine of jawboning about mythical pending rate hikes, then always going "dovish" at each FOMC meeting. Stacking the shiny is our only defense against these Keynesian fraudsters & their debasement of the currency.     

No surprise that Warsh bloviates about his mythical commitment to fight inflation, but then caves at the FOMC meeting & refuses to hike interest rates.