recipes for healthy food: Central banks are hoarding gold like something big is coming

Something's happening in the gold market.

Despite the recent pullbacks, central banks are stockpiling gold at levels we haven't seen in decades. And when banks move like this, they're not guessing. They have teams. Algorithms. Playbooks.

The gentleman I'm introducing you to spent over a decade on institutional desks helping execute those playbooks... moving serious capital in gold and silver while retail traders got chopped up on the other side.

He knows exactly how the big players move. And more importantly, when.

He's going to show you the exact framework institutions use to trade gold.

No predictions. No guesswork. Just the levels that matter and the signals that tell you when to strike, especially after the recent moves.

This is the kind of insight that normally stays behind closed doors.

Let the Game Come to You!

Big T

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Investing doesn't just test your patience. It can test your health.

In fact, market stress doesn't only live in your head… It can land you in a hospital bed.

I can attest to this personally.

The high blood pressure from my time on Wall Street left me with the kidneys of an 80-year-old man before I turned 50.

I don't regret a second of the journey. But I do wish one of my Wall Street mentors had taught me how to emotionally survive the relentless ups and downs.

None of them ever showed me how to handle the fear, excitement, regret, and panic that comes with watching your net worth rise and fall every single day.

And this isn't just a Wall Street problem. Everyday investors pay the price too.

That's why I'm writing today, because there's no investment you can make that's worth sacrificing your health. And yet, people are literally rioting over the hottest trade on the planet right now: gold.

More on that in a moment. First, if you think I'm being dramatic, medical research shows investing stress can harm your overall health.

A study in The Journal of Finance found a link between stock returns and hospital admissions for anxiety, panic disorder, and major depression. The link was nearly instantaneous – occurring within the same day of a market drop.

Another study by Duke University researchers, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, found heart attacks rose steadily during the 2008 Financial Crisis.

From September 2008 through March 2009 – the worst months of the crisis – heart attack rates surged as markets collapsed.

That's what emotional investing does.

Gold Is Trading Like a Meme Stock

Longtime readers know I expect bitcoin will outperform gold over time. Yet I still maintain some gold exposure, though it represents only a small portion of my net worth.

Now, gold is usually the less volatile asset of the two. But that's changed over the past year. Gold's price action has been mimicking meme stocks. And its cousin, silver, has traded like an altcoin in a crypto bull market.

Last week, gold hit a record high of $5,600 per ounce. It's up as much as 113% since January 2025. Silver has done even better – rocketing as much as 321% since this time last year.

Of course, volatility often follows a short-term rally of that magnitude. And emotions got the best of investors.

Over the past two weeks, gold and silver have traded like a whipsaw. They plunged as much as 21% and 41% earlier this month… Only to rally 16% and 28% this week. And in the past 24 hours, they've dropped as much as 6% and 21%, respectively.

Despite the volatility, I believe gold and silver still have significant upside ahead. Here's why…

I've been on record since 2019 calling for higher gold prices as a direct consequence of relentless government money printing.

In May 2020, I warned: "This unprecedented money printing will dilute money so much that – 10 years from now – the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar could be cut in half."

That's exactly why central banks have been buying gold at a record pace. And why, for the first time in three decades, they now hold more gold than U.S. Treasury debt as a share of their reserves.

When central banks make a move like this, it's a long-term commitment. J.P. Morgan Global Research expects central banks to buy around 755 tonnes of gold in 2026 alone.

That's why I believe gold prices are going to stay high.

Against that backdrop, it's no surprise retail investors are piling into gold.

People are rushing to local merchants to cash in old gold jewelry. Novices are buying gold coins and bars for the first time. And many investors are piling into gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs), trading "paper" metal like a meme stock.

The gold craze isn't just happening in America. We're seeing the same frenzy overseas.

As gold prices surged, Chinese retail investors piled into the online metals trading platform JWR. But when prices jumped again, and investors rushed to cash out, the platform buckled under the withdrawals, leaving roughly $1.4 billion in losses.

Redemptions were frozen, and hundreds of angry investors gathered outside JWR's offices in Shenzhen… prompting riot police to step in.

It's a devastating reminder that emotional investing doesn't just cause stress… It also puts your life savings at risk.

Friends, the problem here isn't gold. It's human nature. When volatility spikes, it can cause panic attacks, anxiety, and depression. In China, it caused a riot.

That's why I've been looking for a way to remove emotion from the equation.

The Stress-Free Way to Invest in Gold

If you've been following me for any length of time, you know I believe emotion is the single greatest enemy of successful investing.

When you let emotions take over, you're most at risk of abandoning an asset you should hold, or holding an asset you should sell.

What I've learned over my nearly 40 years covering the markets is this: The more you can counteract your emotional response, the better decisions you'll make.

My job is to help you make rational decisions… Rather than emotional ones that feel good in the moment, but destroy wealth over the long term.

Now, I get it. Trying to overcome your emotions is easier said than done. I've been covering markets for my entire adult life, and sometimes even I still succumb to my emotions.

And I can tell you, when I followed my emotions instead of my reason, I've made some of the worst investment decisions of my career.

That's why I've been looking for a way to take emotion out of the equation. And recently, I discovered a former institutional trader who has been making a killing in the gold and silver markets.

He sidestepped last week's gold and silver massacre and has consistently been on the right side of the gold and silver market volatility.

It all has to do with what he calls "levels."

You see, institutions don't trade emotions. They trade levels – specific prices that matter. And when those levels break, they act decisively.

What I love about this approach is you don't need a degree in finance to understand it. You follow a signal that tells you when institutions are moving.

It takes emotion out of the equation. You simply wait and strike when the signal comes.

He'll do a better job explaining it than I will… And that's why I want to introduce you to him. That's when you can learn how to trade his gold and silver signals…

Friends, when markets turn volatile, the damage isn't just financial – it's also emotional and physical.

We've seen this in the equity market studies. We've seen it in crypto. And now we're seeing it even in gold.

My goal is to help you invest in a way that removes emotion from the process – so you can protect your wealth without sacrificing your health.

Let the Game Come to You!

Big T