Yellow Dog or Yellow Dawg or Yaller Dawg (gold nickname)

Gold is sometimes nicknamed “yellow dog” or “yellow dawg” or “yaller dawg.” “Not bad considering everyone was slamming the yellow dawg” was cited in print in 2002. The financial blog Jesse’s Cafe Américain explained on December 16. 2013:
 
“When I first became interested in gold, traders on the chat boards used to call it ‘the yellow dog’, or yaller dawg if one was of the Southern persuasion. That was because after the long and brutal bear market, gold was wallowing in the mid 200’s and was getting little interest and absolutely no respect.”
 
Gold has also been called an “anti-dollar,” a “barbarous relic,” a “currency of last resort” and a “pet rock.”
 
     
Silicon Investor
Strategies & Market Trends | Alamos Gold
2/23/2002 6:58:45 AM
To: Al Collard who wrote (1535)
From: kirby49
Hi Al:
IMG again this week please. Hardly moved last week, and that move was enough for 2nd. Not bad considering everyone was slamming the yellow dawg.
 
The Golden Truth
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2009
Is Gold Getting Ready To Test $1000?
Someone (the Chinese?) may have let the yellow dawg out:
POSTED BY DAVE IN DENVER AT 12:26 PM
 
InvestorVillage
Msg 698172 of 781001 at 10/5/2012 11:17:37 AM by
retired99
The yellow dawg just can not see 1800. (at this moment.)
 
Jesse’s Cafe Américain
16 DECEMBER 2013
Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - FOMC Meeting This Week - No Yellow Dogs Allowed
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When I first became interested in gold, traders on the chat boards used to call it ‘the yellow dog’, or yaller dawg if one was of the Southern persuasion. That was because after the long and brutal bear market, gold was wallowing in the mid 200’s and was getting little interest and absolutely no respect.
 
When this dog turns higher again, and I believe that it will, it may show us a run that would put a greyhound to shame.
 
Jesse’s Cafe Américain
03 MARCH 2014
Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Flight To Safety, Undeniable - Yellow Dog, Wagging
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Gold popped very hard today on what is undeniably a flight to safety out of fiat currencies and into something that is durable in a crisis with less counterparty risk. It was a clear result of the tension in the Crimea.
 
Jesse’s Cafe Américain
09 APRIL 2014
Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Who or What Will Let the Dawg Out?
The yellow dawg (gold) is straining at the leash.
 
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10:22 AM - 10 Apr 2014