"I care about my ounces count, so I always want price weakness.Few understand the rationale, which is why few build anything except what amounts to a partial and failed hedging of the dollar's continuous devaluation."

Thomson is trading to increase the volume of hard assets, i.e. gold/silver. He isn't interested in the money value, because he knows its money value is delusional.

In the next stage, when hyperinflation takes over, all people will be forced to think in terms of the volume of hard assets. How to avoid being invested in rapidly depreciating paper money and how to maintain the value of your capital by means of continuous investment in hard assets.