Th3 Core

I took 3 years of statistics while I was at Boston University and maintained an A-, so forgive me if I'm not interested in reading any more textbooks... especially when it would be so much more pleasing to have you go back through the daily financial charts to show me the last time you saw a $1.50 spike in silver, or $20 spike due to trading activity in a 10 minute span of time.

But I wont be so cruel - the answer is the day they announced QE3.  How utterly unremarkable.

First, allow me to apologize. I didn't know we were talking about the great Darrell Huff - the Albert Einstein of modern day statistics.  

Second, I deeply regret that kitco publishing their 3 day chart, in a manner common in the industry, offends your lack of decency.  I think you should write them.

Before you do, however, make sure to use the live version, as a reference to the claim they are lying to the entire industry that uses their charts:
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
...that should help you pin down the offending material. If that isn't enough you can do a search for other sites that are republishing these financial charts starting with these 16000:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22www.kitco.com%2Fimages%2Flive%2Fsilver.gif%22&oq=%22www.kitco.com%2Fimages%2Flive%2Fsilver.gif%22&sugexp=chrome,mod=9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Third, if you get done with step 2 - whatever you do - DO NOT CLICK ON THE GRAPH.  I can't even imagine what you would think of a graph like that, with all of it's little sliders all over it, allowing you to compare two points over time, etc.

....or forth, maybe you can show me what page of the book, the illustrious Darrell Huff explains the last time he saw a $1.50 spike up in silver, or $20 spike in gold, due to trading activity in a 10 minute span of time. On any chart. Or any table. Anywhere.

Statistics don't lie.  Statisticians lie.

offends your lack of decency

Huh?

I stand by my point: a graph whose baseline is something other than zero can give a very different impression about the proportions of something than the same info presented in a graph that starts at zero.

That's something that consumers of information are wise to keep in mind.

>>The people who will make the most money when it does will be those who make their investment decisions before the herd arrives.

What's that old expression, if you see the bandwagon you're too late, or something like that. You definitely need to be in whatever it is before the followers arrive.