Two Gold Stories Collide

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If you invested in gold or silver, the two things screaming at you right now at the same time and they're completely contradict each other. One side is saying gold's going to $10,000. US government is apparently about to reset the price of gold in July. And you know, by now we'll miss the biggest wealth transfer in history. And then on the other side, gold just had a brutal pull-up from its eyes. And millions of people who bought near the top are staring at the red, wondering if the whole thing is ever gonna recover. So which is it? Is this a once-in-a-lifetime setup or the top of a bubble or you're about to get crushed? Here's what I'm gonna do for you the next 20 minutes. I'm gonna show you exactly how to tell the difference, not just on gold, but on any money rumor for the rest of your life. I'll tell you what's actually true about this reset story, the much bigger thing the headlines are hiding in a dead simple plan for what to do with your money. And I'll warn you, one fact you've heard repeatedly everywhere else about this rumor is just flat out wrong, and I'll show you how to spot it yourself. My name is Felix Preen. I used to be an investment banker. I've sat inside the big institutions where these kind of money decisions are made where everyone's panicking in mainstream media. I'm also the founder of the Gold Academy, where my retired Wall Street mentors have 25,000 students this last six years. So this is a no-hype, no, you know, run out and buy gold now or you'll be poor forever type video. I just want to show you what's actually happening behind the scenes. It gives you a calm plan you can follow. And here's a slight warning. This video is going to be fairly dense. I got some time. I'm literally flying over the United States right now. We're just over over Nebraska here right now. And I thought I'd share this with you because I think it's so important people are not in this. So a lot of numbers, a lot of sources, a lot of clam. And to make all of that stick for you, I'm also going to spend the next hour or so, put that into a free research report that you can download that covers everything I'm running through here, plus actually even more detail. And you can download that for free at feedexpense.org slash July. Links in the description, just grab it. Uh, nothing required there. Just grab it so you can follow along better, or you can read it afterwards.

Where The Reset Rumor Starts

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So let's lay out this gold reserve to $10,000 rumor because parts of it are real. And that's why it's so convinced. It starts with a serious idea from a serious economist named Juni Scheldt. She's a former Federal Reserve Board nominee, and she came up with something called a Treasury Trust Bond. Here's what that means in plain niche. You lend money to the government, and then they pay you back decades later, you get to choose whether you want to get dollars or actual gold. So it's a government bond backed by real gold. And that's real. So hold on to that. Now here's the part that makes people lose their minds. The US government owns about 8,000 tons of gold, the biggest pile of gold on the planet. But on the government books, they value that gold at $42. So an ounce. $42, not like typo. Gold trades at like 10, 100 times that. The government still holds it on their balance sheet at $42. It hasn't been updated since 1973. So the rumor goes like this. What if the government finally updates that number to the real price? Well, overnight it creates trillions of dollars of value, and they're saying it's gonna happen this July as America's celebrating 250 years. Perfect, symbolic, Trump-like moment. And from there, these claims explode, gold to 10,000, gold to 20,000, higher. Because if the government officially says gold is the real money, the whole world has to follow. And I get why this is everywhere. It's a real proposal, it's a genuinely absurd $40 price, and it's a patriotic date, and it's a big number, $10,000, big enough to change your life. And honestly, some of the foundations under this rumor are just true. And that's what makes I think it dangerous. The most convincing lies are typically 80% true. So we're going to see something that almost nobody online does with this story. Instead of reacting to it, we're going to run it through a simple filter, a simple test that tells you in about a minute whether any money headline deserves your fear, your excitement, or just your trash. And once you see the filter, you'll never be fooled again by a headline like this. Now, if you work inside of a bank, nobody acts on a headline. They run everything through a checklist every single time, the same way, no emotion. And I've bolted that down to just three questions, or literally a fifth grade I could answer. And I was talking to the pilots here, actually not these pilots, but some other pilots I was meeting in New York. Um, and they said, hey, Felix, which is always very, very nice and people say hello. We chatted for about 15 minutes, and I said to them, pilots make very, very good investors because you guys run through cystrips, you guys run through checklists, right? And it is lobbied to see these guys do exactly that before we take off. So there was a truth

The Three-Question Truth Filter

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filter. And I'm gonna write this down. Question number one: who benefits from me believing this? Every loud money story is told by someone. The guy is screaming, buy gold now, and he happens to sell gold, then that's it's someone's sells pitch, right? Now, I like gold, I think in the long run gold's gonna go up, but I'm not selling gold. I got paid by gold miners. I've never ever taken a dollar from any kind of affiliate in the in my life, nor do I intend to. And I'm not intending to sell gold anytime soon either. So you want to always look at who gets paid when you believe a story. The second question is what's this smart money actually do? So forget what people are saying. Watch what they do with real money, because talks free, money is actually strangely honest. And if insiders, if Wall Street, if Comas, all these guys believe gold was about to triple in the next month, they'd be backing up the truck to buy it right now, quietly before the news, so that they well are making money. And are they doing that? Well, hold that question, we're about to use it. Question three is is this a fact or a feeling? Gold's going to fifty thousand dollars, that's a feeling. Central banks bought about a thousand tons of gold last year, that's a fact. You can check it. So build decisions on facts, treat the feelings as entertainment, but that's it. So you've got three questions. Run every headline you ever see on YouTube or anywhere else through that. And let me show you the facts on gold. What do you see? You see a gold price that's steadily falling. You see no particularly large volume on the green days, so institutions are not buying this thing, right? So if a story can't pass all three of these tests, it doesn't get to touch your money or how you make decisions. Let's run through this one more time to make it really clear. Does this July reset right now in front of your holder? Question number one, who benefits? A lot of the loudest gold voices out there, well, they're selling gold or gold coins or you know, something, right? And I don't blame them, it's just it's a business. Question two is what's the smart money doing? And I just showed you that we are not seeing any significant buying in the market. We're not seeing any whales positioning. The money is not behaving like people who know the secret are doing something about it, right? And maybe you think, oh, well, they don't know yet. Well, look at what happened to oil stocks like six months or five months before the Iran war kicked off. I happen to know because I was in those oil stocks at the time, not because I knew about the war, but I could see there was money moving, right? I'd no idea why, I just followed. And then question number three: a gold reset on a specific kind of big celebration holiday is kind of a feeling dressed up as a fact, right? Repricing the nation's gold isn't someone pressing a button on a Friday. It takes lawmaking sign-offs from the Treasury and the Fed. And quite frankly,

Why The July Reset Falls Apart

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it could backfire. It could signal to the world that the government doesn't trust its own dollar, and politicians are gonna be careful about that. So we basically have three strikes there, right? This July gold reset, the way it's been sold to you, is almost certainly not happening that way. And that's the fact. I warned you about the first 30 seconds of this, and I know you want me to tell you, but it's gonna go to a million dollars. And I hope it will. I am bullish on gold, I'm bullish on even silver, but I'm not a crystal ball owner. You know, we have to look at the facts rather than what we the story that we would like to be. And now I need to be really straight with you because this is the part that actually matters. I just handed you the truth, Felty. Use it for the rest of your life, it'll save you from a hundred-pound headlines. But here is what keeps me up at night, literally. Spotting the lie is the easy half. The hard half, the half that actually protects your money, is taking your own portfolio and your real holdings, stocks, gold, silver, index funds, and getting it ready for what's actually coming. And I'm looking at literally thousands of real portfolios because our students share their portfolios with us, and most of them are not built for this. People who did everything right for the last 20 years, who think they're diversified, literally zero real protection in place right now, and they won't find out that they don't have that in place until it's too late. And knowing that gold is insurance against inflation and government spending and so on, doesn't help you if your house has no spoke detector and you don't know how much coverage you actually need to insure. So it depends on your money, your age, your other holdings. And I can't do that for you on a YouTube. So, what I'm gonna do for you first, and we've never done this before, we're gonna run a live workshop for you. It's called Why Your Portfolio is broken and why you won't know until it's too late. It's gonna be completely free. I'll teach you for two hours, I'll take your questions, and we're gonna go through your actual situation with this system, and it show you the gaps that almost every portfolio I see right now has. So you walk out with a calm, clear plan with rules instead of that fear and that pit in your stomach. And if any of that's landing, if you're just feeling a little bit uneasy about what's going on in the market and the AI bubble, and the government spending and inflation and everything else out there, then don't ignore it. Grab yourself a free ticket for it. We're gonna take 5,000 free students there in that session. And you can do that at my mygrateportfolio.com, because that's my goal from you. If you can say mygrateportfolio.com, uh say grab yourself a seat. If you think some other people you know are gonna get some value out of that, share that link with

The Hidden Trend: Central Bank Buying

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them. And now let's understand the hidden story that makes me fundamentally bullish on these metals, because the rumor pedlers skip this a lot the time because it's a little bit detailed, it's a little bit less exciting, right? The central banks, the institutions that manage all the money, that print all the money, they're buying gold faster than almost any time in modern history of a thousand tons a year. It's about double what it usually is. And the crazy thing is a lot of this buying is secret. There is no law forcing a central bank to announce how much gold they're buying. And many buy quietly through middlemen. We see that especially in Asia, we see that in the Middle East. And how big's the hidden part? Well, there's some data that just came up which suggests that the actual buying could be many times higher than what's officially reported. Goldman Sachs, you know, the investment bankers with the soft, fluffy hearts, they estimate that central banks are quietly buying hundreds and hundreds of tons of extra gold that isn't showing up. So if you run that three and you filter, forget about everybody saying out there, the most powerful financial institutions in the world are doing one thing with their money. They're stockpiling gold. So money is always honest, and that's to me the signal. And if you're wondering why they're doing that, it's got everything to do with the Russian war, because the US and Europe froze Russian foreign reserves. So Russia, whether you love the Russian government or not, doesn't really matter. But they lost about $300 billion in a day that got frozen, and is possibly now being used to fund the people they're fighting, right? Uh so if you step back for a minute and you imagine that you were the Russian government, you wouldn't be all that happy about it. So what are you gonna do? Well, it's not just the Russians, but it's every central bank in the world who is waking up and going, hang on. The dollars I hold, they can be frozen. The euros I hold, they can be frozen. The yen I hold, they can be frozen. So why don't I just buy gold and put it in my basement? Because unless you're gonna invade me, that's gonna be pretty hard to get at. So then you might be wondering, well, what the heck does gold crash?

Why Gold Pulls Back So Hard

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Well, I put on the screen here for you three reasons. People buy stuff because it goes up. And that's probably the most popular investing strategy I see in retail. Investors is they buy something because it goes up for no other reason, and it's popular and they have FOMO and it's natural. I totally get it, right? And gold went up here from about $3,500, which is where my system buy signat kicked in. We went all the way up to $5,500 and now we're back to $4,000, right? Doesn't feel good for it to trash. Now, the smart money, the hedge funds, who started buying around about here, they also bought it on the way up, but they exit. And you can see them exiting pretty harshly here in March, also here up here in January, and they took profits and they just bought something else because they don't care about gold. They couldn't care less what they own, they just want to make money, right? That's the whole the whole job description. So that's one part of the we're seeing the people who bought it because it was going up, they're now freaking out. And typically, when you go down about 30%, most people will bottle out and things go lower. Like we're about 28% or so down. It's a lower people's pain thresher. So if we go a little bit lower, more of those retail people are gonna sell off. Now, the second thing that happens, and that's kind of hard to imagine, the people who bought it on the way up, they then sell it on the way down. So they short sell. So they trade money and they make money on the way up and make money on the way down, and that pushes the stock price down. Uh, and then they might also go onto you know mainstream media and maybe, maybe help a little bit with some fear stories along. And then you have the people who just buy this for the long term because they just want to hold it as an insurance, and you might call them strong hands or whatever, that they do need a pretty tough stomach lining. And all I'd say to you there is make sure it's a part of your wealth that isn't so large that you can't sleep at night like now, because you are going to have these pullbacks again and again and again, because the price in the short term isn't set by you holding gold, the price in the short term is set by the people trading gold. And they quite frankly have more money than you and me, and therefore those billion to determine which way the stock pays goods. So no stock, no commodity ever goes up in a straight line. You you gotta expect 30 to 50 percent corrections. Unfortunately, that's the way the market works. Once you realize that, you kind of get used to it maybe after a while. So to me, gold isn't broken, it's just doing what it always does.

Debt, AI, Recession And Metals

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And there are ultimately three forces here that are pushing this in one direction. The first is US debt, $40 trillion in growing every day, and the dollar's share of global reserves is slowly shrinking. So every time the dollar weakens a little, gold gets a little bit more valuable. Every time the dollar goes up a little bit, gold loses a little bit of value, at least temporary. And then the second reason is the economy has some warning lights, but a trillion dollars is poured into the AI. It's propping up a lot of parts of the economy. And that spending, well, guess what? It could just slow, hopefully, like the turbulence here. And a lot of people feel there is a recession out there, right? So the official numbers are propped up by AI. And again, when you go into tough economic times, typically gold does quite well. Doesn't have to, but typically it does. And then three, gold's exact environment as well. Mountains of debt, a stretched stock market, countries fighting over trade and territory. That's historically when gold does its job. Because gold isn't just a shiny rock, it is a 5,000-year-old insurance policy. And the more panic there is, the more people need insurance. So, yes, the reset rumor is overblown in my humble opinion. The crash is actually kind of healthy, it's just what the market does. The real trend underneath it, in my humble opinion, is rock solid. I'm not a financial advisor, I'm telling you what to buy, and just sharing my opinion and my research with you. So it brings us to one question. And really the only question what matters, what do you actually do there? So before any tactics, one rule that's worth more than the rest of this video combined. Take the emotion out. Emotion is the number one wealth killer. Fear makes you sell at the bottom, greed makes you buy at the top, and we all have that. So the whole plan below exists to make your decisions boring. Boring is actually what wins in the market. So picture your money as

Build A Calm Three-Bucket Portfolio

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a house. It's three parts. So just picture this in your head and you'll never be lost again. You have a foundation of the house. This is money you cannot afford to lose. Rent, groceries, emergencies needed. And it goes somewhere boring and safe, like a high yield savings account or short-term treasury bills or something like that. It's not really invested. It's just not at risk. How much? Three to six months of your expenses. So if you spend like $4,000 a month, say um $12,000 to $24,000 just sitting somewhere safe. And this is the foundation. We do not build anything until it's solid. You do not touch it unless it's a real emergency. And then your second bucket, these are the rooms where you actually build wealth over decades. Stocks, index funds, retirement accounts, you know, tax-efficient accounts. And for most people, a simple mix of low-index funds is the the smartest and the least stressful move. Classic starting point is something like 70% stocks, and maybe 30% bonds, shiny stuff, right? And even adjusted as we get older. And this is where the compounding happens, the wealth building over 10, 20, 30 years. And then you have your third bucket. That's your protection. That's where the gold. And in this bucket, we put money not actually to make us rich. This is here to save you when everything else goes wrong. Stock market bucket crashes, the bucket holds up somewhat, or maybe it rises. Inflation might eat your cash. Well, gold keeps its buying power historically. Most people out there in the financial world say 5 to 15% of your total money should go in here. The decision, of course, is up to you. I'm not here to tell you what to do with that. But if you're really nervous about the economy, obviously it can be on the larger side of that. But again, it's a decision for you, not for me. Think about it. You don't install a smoke detector because you want a fire. You install it because fires happen, and the cost of not having one is pretty big. So gold is the smoke detector and the fire extinguisher for your financial house at the same time. And the honest catch is this the right size for your bucket three depends entirely on what's in your other two buckets. Your real holdings, your age, your timeline. And I can give you the principle here on YouTube, but I can't size it for your house, your situation. And that's exactly what we're gonna map out together, live together. If you go to my greatportfolio.com, wrap yourself a seat, show up for yourself, be on time. And if you will do that, just write great in the comments down below, and I know that you'll show up for yourself. And the number one question I want to answer for you there is you know, when do I

Buying Without Perfect Timing

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buy? What if it drops more right now after I buy? And the answer is stop trying to pick the perfect moment. Nobody can do that. Instead, we nibble in the right-ish moments where we see the institutional money acting. So say you want to put, you know, 10k into gold this year. I think I better put a seatbelt on, which is precisely what we're doing with gold, then you don't buy the $10,000 on day one. You lift right and you buy bits here, you buy bits there, and you spread that out over, say, 12 months, and now you actually feel a lot calmer because you didn't buy only at the top. I get that you might also not just buy only at the bottom, but you don't know it's the bottom until the bottom is hollowed. You will just pay an average price. And over time, that's actually gonna do really, really well for you, in my humble opinion. Now, for those of you who want a bit more excitement and want to go into gold miners and that sort of stuff, we can also talk about that on the weekend. Um, and I do do that. Right now, I'm not. I don't own a single gold miner left. Not because I think it's never gonna go back up. I just think that at present, the big money and institutional money is flowing into other buckets. So I like to follow the buckets where the money is flowing in rather than the buckets which have leaky holes right now. At the moment, for whatever reason, the gold story isn't quite what we'd like it to be. And silver is the same story, by the way. Similar qualities, very real industrial demand from solar, electronics, EVs, and so on. It swings bigger, it's more ups and downs, but ultimately the story is quite similar. So if you're just starting, some physical gold means you're probably gonna own that for hopefully the rest of your life. A gold ETF is the easier step, it's a little bit more liquid, but you're not quite sure what you actually own. And as much as you want the gold reset to be true and where you've had to go to $10,000, we all do. Just be careful with Bruce telling you what. So um, if it gets knocked over, it's fine. So run through the truthful that I just gave you, minimize the emotions in the whole process, and instead focus on the facts. And if you have a long-term horizon, there's some good reasons to be bullish on this story, especially in silver, but also in gold with inflation and so on. Um, I think the US government's gonna cause inflation for many, many years to come. It's the only way they can handle the debt. And gold typically does well in these scenarios. But it isn't gonna be a straight line. You are gonna have these 30% drawdowns. They're kind of part of the plan, they're part of the process. An understanding that will hopefully make you feel a little bit calmer.

Workshop Invite And Closing

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But if you want a real plan and you want to really, really know what's being harbored by your portfolio where the real risk sits, then come and join us on the weekend and I'll show you some of the glorious plains of Nebraska. If I can point this out of the window, I don't know how much you can make out here. But it's a really, really nice journey uh in a beautiful blue sky across this glorious country that you guys, many of you guys live in. I'm very grateful to be here and met so many of you while we're on this trip in the US, and it's been really, really fun. So if you got some value out of this, just share it with some people. Share the link to the the workshop on the weekend. Our goal here is just to change more lives the way we already are. And uh I wish you all the best. Take care.