RJ Hamster
♟ Saudi Arabia walked away. Nobody noticed.
“Gold at $5,000 looks expensive if you think it is a fear trade. It looks different when you understand what’s driving demand.”
Karim Rahemtulla, Co-Founder, Monument Traders Alliance
Dear Reader,
In June 2024, a 50-year agreement expired.
Saudi Arabia chose not to renew it.
You probably didn’t hear about it.
In 1974, after Nixon killed the gold standard, the U.S. struck a deal with Saudi Arabia… price all your oil in dollars, park your oil revenue in U.S. Treasury bonds, and we will protect you militarily.
Saudi Arabia agreed. Every other major oil producer followed.
That deal created something called the “petrodollar” system. It meant that every nation on earth that needed to buy oil – which was every nation on earth – first had to buy dollars.
That single arrangement is the main reason the U.S. dollar kept its status as the world’s reserve currency… the currency that countries hold in their vaults as their ultimate financial backstop… for 50 years after we stopped backing it with gold.
That deal is gone. And the numbers show what has happened since.
The dollar’s share of global foreign exchange reserves has fallen from 73% in 2000 to 56% today, the steepest decline since World War II.
Saudi Arabia now settles 45% of its oil sales to China in yuan.
China and Russia conduct more than 90% of their bilateral energy trade without touching a dollar.
In November 2025, the BRICS – a bloc of 11 nations including China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, and Iran representing 37% of global GDP – launched a digital settlement instrument pegged 40% to gold specifically to facilitate trade that bypasses the dollar.
Last year, the World Gold Council surveyed central bankers around the world. Seventy-three percent said they expect the dollar’s share of global reserves to fall further over the next five years.
Central banks do not buy gold because they are nervous. They buy gold when they are repositioning. And for three straight years they have bought more than 1,000 tonnes annually, more than double the pace from a decade ago.
There is a word for what happens to an asset when the mechanism that suppressed its price for 50 years starts breaking down.
It reprices.
Not in a week. Not because of a single headline. Over years, as the weight of a new monetary reality accumulates and forces the market to catch up.
Gold at $5,000 looks expensive if you think it is a fear trade. It looks different when you understand what is driving central bank demand at the institutional level.
These are not nervous retail investors. These are nations buying an asset that does not depend on any single country’s creditworthiness or political stability.
That is exactly what becomes valuable when the system built around one nation’s currency starts coming apart at the seams.
SPONSORED
Hermit Millionaire: “My most wanted trading secret”
My biggest wins never came from long-term investing…
But short-term trading.
In fact, since 2024 I’ve racked up over 200 triple-digit winners…
It’s all thanks to this glowing green spike…
Just last month it flagged Google, for a 192% win…
And Fastly – a 316% gain in under 2 hours…
It’s my most wanted trading secret.
YOUR ACTION PLAN
I have been watching this play out for a long time. The transition from one monetary regime to the next is never clean or fast. But it is rarely reversible either.
The countries accumulating gold right now are not making a tactical bet. They are making a structural decision about what the next 50 years look like.
The petrodollar didn’t end with a crisis. It ended with a quiet decision not to renew a contract.
That’s how monetary regimes actually die – not in a crash, but in a series of small, structural choices that only look inevitable in hindsight.
The choices are being made right now.Want more content like this?
TESTIMONIAL TUESDAY
“Hit 455 target with MU 85%”
– traderguy1, Daily Profits Live Member
“BTO WFC strangle @ $2.90 and STC @ $4.03 for a 39% overnight gain!!! Thank you Bryan B!!! :-)”
– BommerMc, The War Room Member
“Out of RKLB @ 5.25, +36.7% (same day)”
– zztex40, The War Room Member
INSIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
Saudi Arabia Walked Away. Nobody Noticed.
Buy the Netflix of Eyewear
Oil Just Had Its Biggest Drop Since 2020. The Strait Is Still Closed.
Nvidia’s Death Cross and the SpaceX Effect
SPONSORED
Bryan Bottarelli is revealing his most important discovery ever…
A special group of stocks that have ALWAYS gone up during certain months.
Looking back, April’s special play has averaged a 99% gain – every April for the last 5 years.
And he’s giving the ticker away FREE now… before the play goes live April 2.
Click here to claim the “unstoppable” ticker now.
Monument Traders Alliance, LLC
You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Trade of the Day.
To unsubscribe from Trade of the Day, click here.
Questions? Check out our FAQs. Trying to reach us? Contact us here.
Please do not reply to this email as it goes to an unmonitored inbox.
To cancel by mail or for any other subscription issues, write us at:
Trade of the Day | 14 West Mount Vernon Place | Baltimore, MD 21201
North America: 800.507.1399 | International: +1.443.353.4977
Website | Privacy Policy
Keep the emails you value from falling into your spam folder. Whitelist Trade of the Day.
© 2026 Monument Traders Alliance, LLC | All Rights Reserved
Nothing published by Monument Traders Alliance should be considered personalized investment advice. Although our employees may answer your general customer service questions, they are not licensed under securities laws to address your particular investment situation. No communication by our employees to you should be deemed personalized investment advice. We allow the editors of our publications to recommend securities that they own themselves. However, our policy prohibits editors from exiting a personal trade while the recommendation to subscribers is open. In no circumstance may an editor sell a security before subscribers have a fair opportunity to exit. The length of time an editor must wait after subscribers have been advised to exit a play depends on the type of publication. All other employees and agents must wait 24 hours after publication before trading on a recommendation.
Any investments recommended by Monument Traders Alliance should be made only after consulting with your investment advisor and only after reviewing the prospectus or financial statements of the company.
Protected by copyright laws of the United States and international treaties. The information found on this website may only be used pursuant to the membership or subscription agreement and any reproduction, copying or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including on the world wide web), in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Monument Traders Alliance, LLC, 14 West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD 21201.
REF: 000142349377
