We haven't seen these violent moves [in prices] in several weeks.

They actually ran a very good, under CFTC oversight and under exchange oversight, futures business, where all customers were always properly margined.

Funds are buying gold because they notice the decoupling from the euro and the decoupling from the energy market.

Gold is a safe haven. We have major political problems in Iran and energy problems in Nigeria.

Palladium and platinum are incredibly robust. There are questions about Russia's deliveries -- no one knows what Russia means.

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

The inverted yield curve, which sent the stock market reeling yesterday, made gold one of the few safe havens.

There also is a lot of option-related buying because everything is in the money now.

There doesn't seem to be an end to the reasons why people want to keep moving into the gold.