Bob Starnes (@CPTBOB72) profile picture

Investor, Trader, Rancher

Austin, TX
Joined February 2011
@auburnTAMUclub 7 of us flying in from Easterwood on Friday...would like to drop by your tailgate on Sat if that is ok..
Saw you on DD&D last night and feel in love with your place just watching on tv. Do you have a cookbook?
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Headed out to Ranch tomorrow and hope to find our rain 2 weeks ago spruce up the place.....
Plane that crashed in Matagorda Bay belongs to Austinite statesman.com/blogs/content/… via @statesman
US Economy: Financial Repression Coming to America: El-Erian - CNBC-http://www.cnbc.com/id/43056225
Ags won the sporting clay challenge with UT on Friday.
WOW, AG is making hugh moves the last 2 days. Not sure from a technical standpoint where the top is but near term $40/oz seems real.
We continue to be suck into a morass of good intentions gone bad by bombing Libya......we never learn.
So are we now in a 3 front war counting Libya? No clear mission no clear goals....this dosen't sound good in any case......
Gold & Silver have made some interesting moves upward in the Asian markets lets see what the Crazy Ivans do as trading hits Eastern Europe..
Under everyone's radar has been the dollar slide against the Canadian $. We import agricultural products and oil/gas..more expensive to US.
Appears the dollar slide to the Yen has been halted with intervention of BoJ and other central banks. For how long is a great question
Dollar/Yen in a strange position. The dollar was already weak against the Yen and it continued that down trend today below 80.
If you have started using Schwab's StreetSmart edge for trading let me know how you feel about the platform. I have found it very intuitive
Now for my Ben Franklin approach to predicting the weather. Turkeys on the Ranch have started mating early.....wet spring is ahead.
Quite a ride this morning with the market. SLV fell back over a $1 and used the drop to pick up shares. Sold out of Natural Gas yesterday.
After yesterdays timing mistake..shorted the 20 yr t before hrs this morning... back in the green, love the smell of a profit in the morning
Shorted the 20 yr t bond about 30 minutes too early today. Hopefully overnight rates fall and I can cost average into a better position Fri
It is very dry out here on the ranch. We need some rain this spring in order to not have a very bad summer.