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Why gold is better than cash

- Alasdair Macleod - FinanceandEconomics

Vox thanks for your caution against trading. Your arguments against trading are logical and justified. I would like to add that the age of the trader/investor and whether he is employed or retired(but working and earning) also matter in the decision to trade or invest in precious metals or other instruments.
For the sake of convincing myself whether to trade or invest in precious metals, I compared my earnings in gold and silver as at this moment and they stand thus respectively; Day 1.13% and 2.29%, this month 2.38% and 6.64%, since 01 Jan 11.1% and 20.9%, 52 Weeks 2.95% and 6.67%.
The inferences(not conclusions) a lay man can draw from these figures are; investments in gold and silver make sense, my profits over the long run have been less in both metals, that gold in one day has generated almost 40% and silver 35.8% profit these precious metals generated over 52 weeks and that profits in silver todate beat gold over the four periods of investment considered.
With these figures in front of me, I ask myself if it would not be insane not to sell sooner than later and walk in to buy lower again to compound my earnings? If I look at the gains over the 52 week period I may start contemplating, but if I base my decision on the profits earned over the other three periods it makes a lot of logical financial sense to trade. As a trader you commit as an investor you lay back and watch hopefully and at times hopelessly.

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Beginning of the headline :The question most often asked of gold bulls is, “At what price will you take your profits?” It is a question that betrays a lack of understanding about why anyone should own gold. Nevertheless, the simple answer must be, “When paper money stops losing its value”. This response should alert anyone who asks this question to the idea that owning fiat cash is the speculative position, not ownership of precious metals... Read More

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