Hello, fellow metals traders:

I am itching to find out why platinum is in the doghouse, and not moving--in fact, why is it so cheap, relative to the prices of gold, palladium and silver?

I am familiar with the diesel gate VW stuff, but that was several years ago. Any one care to share what you think is going on here? Platinum price should at least be the same as gold, no?

Thanks.

Not a lot of metal traders around, @myrrdin and @Sagal are two of the more active I know of, and they post in a metals thread at

Metals It is interesting to note that the price for Palladium almost reached the price for Platinum. At some point it might be interesting to buy the 2*PL-PA spread. The reason for the relative strength of Palladium is not clear to me. Both metals are …

I am playing around with the idea of options on futures for both. I post in my journal, but if I have a special metal trade, I will post here as well.
I do VSA, Price action and news. Not sure how much news you can get in metals to trade off and how the would work with options.
Have traded the micro metals, are they liquid enough to day trade.

Thanks
K