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FYI, gold is stable right now, time to buy?

Discussion in 'Money Talk$' started by Wingman68, Oct 13, 2019.

  1. Wingman68

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    Gold is stable right now? Do you mean gold prices are stable right now?

    No, the price of gold is having a nice run up right now. This is why you keep seeing and hearing the ads to BUY GOLD NOW!!! The gold dealers that bought gold in the last couple of years want to unload it for a profit. It's probably been the most unstable year for gold prices since 2011 when gold went from $1,350/oz. to $1,889/oz. Or in 2013 when it went from $1,650/oz. to $1,200/oz.

    Gold Price 5 years Oct19.JPG
     
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    I watch the price every day. It has been around 1500, give or take, depending on the stock market. Right now it’s $1489.
     
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    Yes, 1,500 is a six year high. Unless you think gold is going to continue upward, there likely isn't any growth to be had. If you are buying it as a hedge against inflation, that might make sense except we haven't had any significant inflation for 15 years.
     
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    Gold is always a hedge, that is why I continue to buy & hold it. It is not the major part of my portfolio, but frankly it gives me more peace of mind than paper holdings. You don’t want any? I don’t care. I’ve been a buyer since it was in the 300 range. As I said, IF the gold standard were to be instituted..........
     
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    Today the stock market is at an all time high. Is that a time to buy stock? I read an article within the last week that if the gold standard were instituted, for whatever reason, gold would then have to be 40,000 to 50,000 an ounce to cover the paper ‘money’.
     
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    And therein lies the problem with a gold standard. There's not enough gold on the planet to cover the increasing population, increasing products, increasing services that people want to purchase.
     
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    Gold price today, 1671, without any major crisis going on. Trump must be good for all things financially, heh. The democrat’s answer to this? Try a little communism, with a side of homosexuality, & next year we could even progress to having Sharia law, or maybe they can tell us how many kids we are allowed due to global warming. Selling insanity must be hard.
     
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    No major crisis going on?

    Coronavirus is spreading to South Korea and Italy.
     
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    Manufactured virus. What was the objective?
     
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    Objection. Question has no foundation.
     
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    Never mind. Rush is on today, & answered the question. Rush is right 99.9% of the time, don’t ya know.
     
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    To scare & to kill
     
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    #16 InTheLight, Jul 27, 2020
    Last edited: Jul 27, 2020
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    Where did you go to school, looks like 30% to me. Again, no one is berating you to buy gold, but the other opportunities you speak of will get you broke in a real crisis. Got ammo? That one could be a sage investment, as well, or you could just hoard 30 round mags, they weigh less than ammo or gold, hahahaha.
     
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    University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology. Six semesters of advanced calculus. A couple semesters of statistics. How about you?

    Well, no wonder you like gold so much. In your head it's returning twice as much as it does in reality.

    Take a look:


    On February 24th you said:
    On July 27th, at 9:37am, you said:
    The price of gold at 9:00 am, Monday, July 27th was $1,931.

    Gold-Price-072720.jpg


    So start price of $1,671.
    End price of $1,931.

    And you say that's a 30% gain. Okey-dokey.

    I get 15.5%.
     
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    The thread was based on 1500. That’s 30% up from 1500 where it sat for awhile. Doesn’t really matter, does it? Your view will not change. Nice to see how hard you will work to be ‘right’ though. Grit, I like it.
     
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    At market high yesterday it was up 27.42% from its lowest price of 2020.
     
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