Dave , what are you doing . ?<| sep |> I had all that back before I sold my bit box TT , I appreciate the comments , some really good ideas there <| sep |> Death is real ? ! I thought it only happened in movies , your freeking me out I nevr noo this ! I hope I don ' t get force choked ! <| sep |> Not necessarily . Keep in mind that these kind of rumors can also be planted by speculators , who want to create the impression that the policy is going to be in place in order to profit . For example , in this case , you ' ll have Indians thinking I should buy gold now , so that I can sell it after the import ban and make a profit ! People outside India will likewise think , I should sell stocks of gold now , because the value will decline after the ban and I ' ll get even less then ! This will cause the price of gold outside India to decrease as people with gold seek to unload it on the market and to rise inside India as people seek to buy gold with the intention of importing it and unloading it inside India postban . That guy then buys the cheaper gold outside India , imports it into India , and sells it there , making money off the difference in prices . He makes a bunch of cash . A little time goes by , no ban materializes , and people outside India realize man , the price didn ' t go down after all , while people inside India realize man , the price didn ' t go up after all . But the speculator already made their money , what do they care ? This sort of thing happens all the goddamned time in the financial markets . There ' s constant speculation about what ' s going to happen , a lot of it completely and utter bullshit , precisely with the intention of moving the market on the rumor in a way that will benefit the person spreading the rumor . The old pump and dump scheme is a good example you buy up a bunch of cheapo stock and then spread a rumor that the company is about to release a good earnings report , then sell as people look to pick up the stock in advance of that report . Speculating in currency or precious metals on things like this is generally a bad idea for the retail consumer . You ' re swimming with sharks , and often the sources of information that you have available are polluted with misinformation that ' s intended to manipulate you into making trades that are bad for you and good for a big institutional investor . There are a lot of people betting many billions on these sorts of things and you ' re highly unlikely to have information they don ' t .