I have seen the writing on the wall for years now. I am not a trader, but believe in buying stocks with good fundamentals or at least high % future potential. So market indicators and movements have always been something I watched, but did not trade.

After watching the pounding of key silver shares while silver metal was up and knowing nest week was OE, I set out to try a little experiment. I sold off 8% of my portfolio (NOT ECU) and am holding cash waiting for the historically reliable fall entering into next week's OE.

My intent is to trade my large cap pm shares hoping to sell a few thousand shares then repurchase the exact # of shares next week with some cash left over. I'll put any cash left over into select jrs.

I'll let you know how this works out. It may just be the one time in the last 11 years that this trade won't work, but its worth a try and makes down turns less anoying.

This looks like my experiment may have some promise: