Monthly September, 2011
Investing in Anything Investing is a bit of a crap shoot at any time, because our fate is never determined by ourselves. The issue is always what “risk” there is. Risk is always the determining factor. When you invest in something, the final determination of whether to make that investment, is the amount of risk...
Who Are the Experts? It is a basic human need to seek comfort in the advice of those that ‘know better’ – someone more knowledgeable. To this end, people are always seeking the advice of experts on every field. This human need has spawned countless experts anxious to pontificate on financial matters. I have remarked...
The Current Value of Gold and Silver As I write this, the current price of gold is $1,646 and the current price of silver is $31.35. These values are significantly below recent highs for both metals, and in each case technical analysis shows that the the value of both metals has broken below support and...
Gold & Silver What we seem to be experiencing currently, is quite a pull back in all sectors, but precious metals gold and silver have fallen more than most. Gold has shown weakness recently and then quite a fall in the last week, resulting in a price of $1,650 per oz currently – a far...
The September 2011 Market Crash This week, the markets had a very significant decline. Every market in every country had huge down days. Not only stocks, but also gold, metals, commodities, currencies, oil, and everything else fell. You might ask, if everything fell, what was the fall measured against. Currencies are measured against the US$....
The Markets Do Not Follow Rational Thought We have often remarked that investors should not follow the pundits. Investors should not follow the doomsayers. Investors should not follow the day to day fears or euphoria of the markets. Pundits and newspapers are all people with advertising space to sell, or people with a particular bent...
The Volatility of Gold, Gold as a Investment Opportunity We are often asked whether gold is still a good place to invest. There are affecting issues here that investors need consider. The Acceptance by Investors That ETF’s are an Acceptable Investment Due to world currency instability and fears of debt crises spreading, many people have...
Relying on Your Investment Advisor One hires an Investment Advisor in the hope that such a person has devoted most of their waking efforts to analyzing the markets and determining how their clients should invest. In order to assist them in making these determinations, the firms that they work for, supposedly provide these individuals with...