sport football: The Marshmallow Test for Gold Trading

Most people believe becoming a great investor is all about picking the right asset.

They're wrong.

The real battle isn't finding the right idea – it's controlling your emotions. Because even the greatest asset in the world can lose you money if you buy or sell at the wrong time.

This is especially true if you're rushing into "supposedly" safe-haven assets like gold and silver, which have been on a tear recently. I'll have more on those precious metals below.

Before I get there, let me show you what I mean…

Peter Lynch is widely considered one of the greatest money managers to ever live. From 1977 until his retirement in 1990, his Fidelity Magellan Fund averaged a staggering 29% in annual gains.

To put that in perspective, a $10,000 stake in his fund would have turned into $274,000 over those 13 years. That more than doubled the return of the S&P 500.

It was the best-performing mutual fund in the world. And it wasn't an exclusive club reserved for the ultra-wealthy, either. Anyone could invest.

All you had to do was buy the fund… Go about your life… And you would've made 27x your money.

Here's the shocking part: Despite Lynch's historic track record, the average Magellan fund investor actually lost money.

I want you to really let this sink in. Even with a fund compounding at 29% per year, most investors still lost money because they couldn't control their emotions.

Even the best fund in the world won't go up in a straight line. You'll have months when your portfolio is up 20% and you feel like a genius… And months when your stomach drops as you watch your wealth plunge 10% or more.

For Magellan's investors, every one of those moves triggered an emotional reaction. Investors dumped shares at peak of FUD, only to buy back in during extreme FOMO.

They had the greatest money-maker in history at their fingertips, and they threw it away because they couldn't tune out the daily price action.

Friends, I've seen this happen in stocks… I've seen it happen in crypto. And now I'm watching it play out again in the hottest commodity on the planet today: gold.

If you're jumping into the gold trade, I want you to pay close attention… Because most investors fail over the long term, and it comes down to emotions.

This is something we're all prone to. It's human nature. But I've found a way to overcome it.

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The Marshmallow Test for Gold Trading

In the 1970s, a group of researchers ran what became known as the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment.

A child was placed in a room with a single marshmallow. They were told they could eat it immediately – or wait 15 minutes and receive two.

Most kids couldn't wait. Some ate the marshmallow the moment the door closed. Others fidgeted and squirmed, battling temptation for a few minutes before finally giving in.

But a small group waited the entire time. What's fascinating isn't that they succeeded – it's why.

For decades, scientists pointed to this experiment as proof that delaying gratification predicts long-term success, including financial success.

But Morgan Housel has a very different take. He saw a different trait in the children who were successful.

Housel is the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever. MarketWatch named him one of the 50 most influential people in markets in 2022.

When he reviewed the marshmallow study, he noticed something subtle. The kids who failed weren't weak. They were hyper-focused.

They stared at the marshmallow. Thought about it… smelled it… and touched it. The more they tried not to eat it, the harder it became to resist.

The kids who succeeded didn't show superhuman discipline. They did something smarter. They ignored the marshmallow altogether.

They played with their shoelaces, sang songs, or looked around the room. One even fell asleep. They weren't thinking about the reward in front of them, or the promise of a bigger reward later.

They simply "forgot" about the reward. That's why they won.

And it's the exact mistake the Magellan investors made. They watched every price tick on their computer screens. The more they watched, the harder it became to hold on.

That's a lesson I've been teaching for years. As long as you're in the right asset, staying disciplined will reward you… even if you have bad timing.

Look, I get it. We're all human. Managing emotions is easier said than done. I've been there myself. I've let emotion cloud my judgment before.

That's exactly why I've been searching for a way to remove emotion from the equation altogether. And it brings me back to the gold market…

Gold Is the Next Test of Investor Emotion

For decades, gold went nowhere. It traded sideways and earned its reputation as a boring asset.

Its January 1980 peak of roughly $850 an ounce equates to about $3,500 in today's dollars. It took nearly 40 years for gold to reclaim that level on an inflation-adjusted basis.

Then last year, the market finally woke up to what I've been warning about since 2019: The value of the dollar is eroding.

Here's what I wrote in July 2019:

The value of paper money slowly rots away due to inflation, whereas the buying power of gold never changes. So gold is far and away a superior storehouse of value when compared to cash. For that reason alone, everyone should have at least a small portion of their cash hoard converted into gold as a chaos hedge.

Just a year later, I even predicted gold would hit $4,000 to counter currency debasement by governments.

Here's what I warned in July 2020, when governments around the world were on a spending spree in response to the Covid-19 pandemic:

Central bankers have printed over $20 trillion in new money. All of this makes it hard to trust governments and their handling of our money. That's why investors are increasingly turning to alternatives such as gold.

How high can it go? The last example we can look at is during the Great Recession. From the depths of the Great Recession to its high in 2011, gold rallied over 130%. A similar move would put gold over $4,000 an ounce.

We saw this idea finally catch on last year. Since January 2025, gold has been up as much as 113%, making it the second-best-performing asset year-to-date. Only silver did better.

But a short-term rally of that magnitude always brings volatility with it. And last week, we felt it firsthand. Gold plunged as much as 22%, while silver crashed 42%.

Friends, the problem here isn't gold (or silver). The problem is human nature. Emotions take over. Retail traders chase hype and buy the highs… then panic and sell the lows.

They get "chopped up."

That's why I've been searching for an approach that takes emotion out of the equation. I'm talking about a true "set it and forget it" strategy that rewards discipline. And I've finally found it.

It's built around how institutions actually trade.

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

What I love about this approach is you don't need PhD-level math to understand it. You follow a signal that tells you when institutions are moving.

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

This approach relies on a proprietary signal designed to filter out fake-outs. If prices reach a key level but institutional volume doesn't confirm it, you do nothing. You just sit on your hands.

But when that level breaks, you're positioned to catch the explosive move… The kind that leaves everyone else wondering what just happened.

It doesn't matter whether gold moves up or down. You can profit either way because this approach follows institutional flow, not emotional hunches.

On Wednesday, February 11, I've arranged a special briefing where I'll introduce you to 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 those "levels" I mentioned.

He'll do a better job explaining it than I will… And that's why I want to introduce you to him.

On February 11, you can learn how to trade his gold and silver signals without putting a single penny of your own money at risk.

How? The short version is this...

We're giving you access to a fully funded 50k account to trade his signals… keep 80% of the profits… and risk absolutely none of your own money.

We've never done something like this before, so be sure to RSVP for next Wednesday's special briefing here.

Then keep an eye out for an email from me tomorrow (Thursday) morning. The subject line will be: "Gold: Keep the Profit, None of the Losses."

Friends, the Magellan Fund investors didn't lose money because the strategy failed. They lost because they couldn't sit still. They were like the kid constantly staring at the marshmallow.

The approach I'll share with you on February 11 is designed to solve that exact problem. It replaces human emotion with institutional discipline.

In other words, it gives you what most Magellan investors never had… A way to buy into weakness and sell into strength… just like the institutions do. All without risking any of your own money.

So RSVP here, then look out for an email from me tomorrow morning with the subject line "Gold: Keep the Profit, None of the Losses."

Let the Game Come to You!

Big T