How To Get Into Gold On The Cheap

Gold fell from $958.95 in London on Friday to $942 at midday in New York before regaining a little ground. The Fall continued in Asian trading on Monday and by the mid morning session in London the price had dropped down to $937 an ounce.

All this negative activity seems as usual based on a fall in the price of oil and a strengthening of the US dollar. Read more

A Way To Buy Into Gold Through Miners

With the gold and silver prices looking stronger by the day and with every prospect of spot gold at last breaching the $1000 a troy ounce that has proved so elusive after two attempts in the last twelve months, it is time to consider the miners of these metals as a way to buy into the gold action for some big profits. Read more

How to Trade the Gold Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Way

Up until the last few years the only practical ways for the retail investor to gain exposure to the gold market was to buy either the physical metal and/or coins or invest in gold mining companies.

Buying bullion and coins has three main problems for the investor to consider.

Of course they can be stored at home, but that gives rise to security problems and insurance costs, they can be stored in a safe deposit box or “bullion vault’ where access can be a handicap as well as incurring storage charges.

Your bullion sales are limited to the weight of the individual ingots you own, they cannot be ’sliced and diced’ to give you flexibility in the amount you wish to raise. Read more

Ways To Buy Gold – Mutual Funds

Gold Mutual Funds ( Known as Unit Trusts in UK & ors)

Buying exposure to gold through a mutual fund is a relatively simple way to buy gold and enter the market.

Particularly in these highly volatile times there are safety features not all present in the alternatives. Investors money is spread across the spectrum of major producers, junior miners and explorers that operate principally in Africa, North and South America, Canada and Australia.

A well managed gold mutual fund offers investors the safety of exposure to a basket of stocks that would be beyond the financial means of the average retail investor.

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How To Buy Gold – Bullion Bars and Coins

Gold Bullion” src=”/wp-content/uploads/gold_ingot.jpg” />In these days of uncertainty, owning physical gold in the shape of bullion bars and coins and storing them at home, in a safe deposit box or secure vault gives many investors the confidence that they may lack in paper gold virtual promissory notes such as shares in gold investment or mutual funds.

Gold ETFs arguably also come into this category.

Gold bullion bars are available in various weights ranging from one troy ounce upwards as well as in metric sizes. For example a one kilo bar weighs 32.15 ounces.

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