Gold & Silver bars - very rarely meet the "perfect" good delivery weight, to the exact round ounce.....and are in fact quoted by weight
- right down to
3 decimal places
So the odds of getting a delivery to the perfect round.... XXX.000 oz
- is statistically odds of.....
a thousand : one
Well last Friday
JPM eligible addition was a flat, round number.
- Not only that, the round number in question is 192,900.000 troy ounces.
- What is so significant about that number?
- Well, the generally-accepted number of ounces in a metric ton is 32,150.
- If you multiply that number by six, you get 192,900.
So, last Friday,
JPMorgan booked into their eligible account exactly and precisely six metric tonnes of gold........right down to three decimal places - 192,000.000
(getting all those odd weigh bars to exactly to the perfect round oz of .000 must have been a challenge.....
1,000 : 1 odds in fact)
But hold on....on
this Monday
Not only did JPMorgan magically book in......... another
- precise and round number,
- the actual increase in eligible gold was reported as 96,450.000 ounces.
(You’re probably pretty good with math so I imagine you’ve already figured out)
- that that is precisely three metric tonnes.
- again to the perfect round oz .000
- that
on it's own is odds of ......1,000 :1
So two days running
.....odds of 1,000,000 :1
What's the odds of a ....Hat Trick ??
What do you think we saw
on Weds ?
- Could JPMorgan have the audacity to report another perfect to the exact round ounce.....another number multiple of metric tons ?
- Nope.
- They simply reported.... one single metric ton !
- Again, nothing to the right... of the decimal point.
- Just 32,150.000 troy ounces, ......
exact and on the nose to 3 decimal places
So that makes hat trick running odds of.....
1,000,000,000 :1
Anybody thinkg - the Physical - wasn't delivered by pallet & forlift truck
- more likely fantasy paper metal....delivered in...an envelope
The reason Comex - added the disclaimer becoming even more....evident ???
Recall that back in 2007, Morgan Stanley
- paid $4.4MM to customers to settle a lawsuit
- brought by customers who had been charged storage fees on.......
paper metal.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/12/idUSN1228014520070612
Old habbits ....die hard perhaps