How I Make 20% a Year on My Gold

I (Houston) wiped the sweat off my face.

What had I done with my money? $8 trillion wiped out over a weekend. 21% of my capital, gone.

FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is a capital killer. And none of us are immune.

On January 29, I bought gold right as it was soaring. It had rallied from around $4,300 per ounce on New Year’s Day… to $5,450 when I pressed the buy button.

Within hours, the price peaked – and then rolled over hard. It dropped to as low as $4,402 over that weekend. That’s a 21% plunge in just three days.

This is what mathematicians call a 13 Sigma event.

To put that into plain English, a math guy would say the probability of this happening was effectively zero. They would say you would have better odds of winning the Powerball lottery three times in a row than seeing gold move that far that fast.

Well, the mathematicians were wrong. Gold lost more market value than the entire market cap of Nvidia and Microsoft – two of the world’s biggest companies – combined.

We’re talking some bitcoin-level volatility right there… from an archaic metal that formed from dying stars more than 4 billion years ago.

And here’s where things get really interesting. Since I bought the peak, gold is down about 2.8% but my position is up 0.3%.

Now, it’s not a home run. But think about that for a moment: Gold is in the red since I bought it… and I’m still making money.

If you’ve spent years covering these markets like I have, you know that doesn’t happen unless you’re doing something different from the crowd.

I’ll get to the detailed answer of how I pulled this off in a moment. But the short answer may surprise you: Crypto.

As I highlighted last week, despite the current bear market, there’s a massive transformation unfolding in crypto right now.

Since the outbreak of the war in the Middle East, we’ve seen real-world use cases for digital assets emerge almost overnight.

Take bitcoin, for example. It’s showing great resilience. The granddaddy of crypto is up 9% since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran more than two weeks ago. Meanwhile, the Dow Index and gold are both down 5%.

The most fascinating development, however, occurred when the latest strikes on Iran began after the closing bell on February 28. Because the strikes happened over the weekend, oil futures weren’t trading and gold markets weren’t open.

Crypto markets, however, never close.

Decentralized exchanges like Hyperliquid continued operating and began providing real-time price discovery. Traders used the platform to hedge geopolitical risk and trade oil-linked contracts… all while traditional financial markets were asleep.

This is exactly the kind of moment where crypto infrastructure shows its true value. And it connects directly to the strategy I used to profit from gold… even as the price fell.

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