"Why is this important. TPTB, as opposed to those who aspire to be, regularly drive down the gold futures just prior to the expiration date so that the guys that wrote the options won't have to pay off. They deliberately push the market wherever they want it so that the options will expire worthless. Nice job if you can get."

I find that I made an error in my post to which I am now replying.

The basic facts were correct as the attack does generally begin before the expiration date; but I said the expiration was taking place last week. Expiration for gold and silver options for April will take place this Friday 3/25. and this is the link of the .pdf file which should be used to determine future dates.

These periods are often good times to buy the junior shares as the gold price is almost routinely surpressed at this time.

http://www.heritagewestfutures.com/downloads/futures-options-calendar.pdf

The second of the two calendars in this .pdf presentation is the one to use. If you look under the April Options the expiration date is given as 3-25.

P.