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The February gold contract is up about $7 right now. This is after Chairman Bernanke’s remarks on 60 Minutes. The February contract is now within $10 of it lifetime high of about $1426.

What’s your take on the price of gold?

Here are the Top 10 podcasts / books that generate the most response from my readers. You can go to the main menu, and click “About” and scroll down to “All Podcasts” where you’ll see a full list of my podcasts in chronological order. These are the ones that get the most attention from readers’ emails.

Standard Chartered is going to hire 1,800 traders over the next three years.

Their goal is to increase revenue to $US 10 billion by 2014 from $US 4.4 billion last year. “We’re just scratching the surface on what the opportunities are,” Stan-C honcho Feder said. “Offshore yuan-denominated products are probably number one on our list.”

How are you going to prepare for this opportunity?

How are you going to differentiate yourself and detail the fact that you can trade any market on your resume?

GPAs don’t matter, nor do your MBA or CFA designation. Everyone has those. What’s different about you?

Read: Standard Chartered to hire 1,800 For Trading Division.