What is the best way to invest in gold?
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Go to ishares.com and have a look at an ETF known as The COMEX Gold Trust, ticker IAU. You buy it on the open market, like a stock, but it is constructed like a mutual fund, invested in ounces of gold and gold futures that are held in a trust. You own shares of the trust, not gold outright, and thus you don't have any of the hassles of storing, or insuring, the metals. The annual expense ratio for all of this is only 0.40%, plus whatever trading costs you incur thru your broker. If you use a discount broker, they can be nominal, depending on the dollar value of your buy-in.
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www.cboe.com\n\nyou can find the future for gold there..
92347
If you want to be 100% safe long term bank deposits would be safest. Next best thing are bank bonds/certificates the Gov't Banks issue out.\n\nOf course, investing in anything else would introduce risks and possibly increased returns/losses.\n\nAny investment that probably promises me anything more than 5% with no risk would be highly questionable.
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I see two opportunities currently, the Chinese market and metals. For specific currency, investing in the Chinese Market is a great route; this is a boom economy and will be a major superpower/economic power in the future. \n\nAn even better choice would be to change the money into metals, such as gold or silver. As inflation increases and the US dollar decreases, it would be a solid investment to put your money in metal. If I were you and had only $1000, I would invest in silver. I have actually bought silver over the Internet from an exchange and seen a return within the last year.
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Best thing would be to go to a pawn/antique shop, buy a bunch of stuff made with those metals, melt them down, and make a bar.\n\nIndividual investors cannot just buy a bar of metal.. however since those metals are more common, go to Home Depot and look for them, ie. Copper Wire. \n\nIf you want to invest in them to make money because you think their price will go up, buy an ETF or a large producer/distributor of those metals, stock.
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Gold closed today at $534.00US per ounce. It would cost you that plus a commission to purchase. You can buy less than an ounce. Commissions vary depending on amount and form, i.e., bullion, coins, etc. purchased. Check your local coin shop.\n\nhttp://www.monex.com/monex/controller?pageid=prices
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I've found Evergreen's Precious Metals Fund to be the one I use the most.  Franklin's Gold & Precious Metals Fund is good, too, but the Evergreen one was better numbers.\n\nA better question is why in the hell you'd want to put your money into precious metals right now.  I guess a nearly year-long run-up and prices at 25-year highs seems like buying signals to you.\n\nHint: Try buying quality investments when they are "on sale".  Not when the herd is moving towards them and pushing the prices beyond reasonable levels.
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Most states.\n\nFor some top forecasts on gold’s direction, visit the site below:\n\nI like the real GOLD nuggets. \n\nAs most gold is mined as very fine dust and tiny nuggets, the larger (over 1oz) nuggets are very rare! Actually they are as rare as large diamonds!\n\nI would suggest you look into large nuggets!\n\nTo see the 'live' spot NY gold price and some museum size gold nuggets I suggest you visit a great site I found a few months ago. I purchase a few nuggets from them just about a month ago, and not only are they beautiful to look at but in just the last few weeks they have really moved up in value!\n\nI'm actually saving to purchase others!\n\nThe site is:\n http://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us\n\nhttp://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us/australia-gold-nuggets.htm\n\nhttp://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us/crystalline-gold-miner.htm\nhttp://california-gold-nuggets-miner.blogspot.com\nhttp://www.brokerforyou.com/brokerforyou\nhttp://www.san-diego-dentist.us\nhttp://www.medical-research-study-directory.info/san-diego-medical-research-study.htm\nhttp://www.lasik-surgery-san-diego.info/lasik-eye-surgery-san-diego.htm\nhttp://www.websitetrafficbuilders.com/adsense.htm
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The gold market is suppost be a good investment right now.  Supposidly capable of even doubling in the near future.  But like any other stock investment nothing is for sure.
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You can invest it in many different things. Bonds, stocks, mutual funds, CD's, T-bill, gold, silver, land, rare coins, art, antiques, baseball cards, to name just a few. \n\nIt would be perhaps better to ask, "How would you invest $10,000?"  At least that way you would get different points of view. \n\nIf all I had was $10,000 to invest and I did not have any outstanding debts to be paid off, I would put $3000 in oil stocks, $3000 in a mutual fund investing in China, and $4000 in T-bills or a mutual fund investing in foreign debt because the dollar is not a healthy place to be right now.
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It depends on the form of the gold...gold coins: find a reputable coin dealer in your area.
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This site is the best for spot gold prices:\n\nhttp://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html\n\nif it doesn't come up just go directly to www.kitco.com\n\nif you want to know the actual price of gold bullion that you'd have to pay go to:\n\nwww.apmex.com\n\nthey update their prices throughout the day.
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If you have a stock brokerage account, you can access several instruments called etf's, that trade like stocks. For gold the symbol is (GLD). A silver ETF is coming soon to the market.\nIf you have a more money and higher risk tolerance you can trade commodities directly with a futures account.
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Damn good question, you forgot about the best part, weakness of the dollar. Gold is a fools bet at best, you have to be invested ahead of the crisis, and sell out during the crisis to profit, and vintage lever action Winchester rifles have given a better return over the last few decades than gold. Same thing with other collectables (easy to transport and perishable) that people want to replace what they once had or always desired. Bonds, especially municipal bonds tax-free, are another possibility but again low intrest, yet safe, safe as the dollar anyways. In all practicality, I would say invest in something that will allow you to gain wealth like  your education, real estate that will prosper in a niche market like waterfront or near new mass transit routes, or allow you to do a secondary line of work/at home business such as selling discount goods online, or the like. Put it to work generating more wealth for you. Or you can try stock picking and hope for a multi-national exposed stock or fund, but remember democrats like to punish the "rich", that is anyone who invests what they earn, with taxes on your payroll and your stock dividends/stock sales margins from stock you bought with your already taxed income. Remember even the best stock pickers only average success 50% of the time. Or be like millions of other sucker, myself included, and buy a lottery ticket now and then, that's why it exists, to give us "hope".
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IMO Gold is an "insurance policy" not an investment.  \n\nIn general, gold rises under a few conditions: \nEconomic instability\nLowering value of the dollar\nIncreased inflation\n\nYou can certainly speculate by buying gold, but you're betting that one of the above conditions takes place or increases in magnitude.  \n\nOver time, gold has shown itself to be a poor investment in comparison to stocks, bonds etc. But an excellent hedge against inflation and monetary collapse.\n\nNowadays many people think that a repeat of 1929 - 1939 is impossible. It is not.  It is prudent for anyone to have a portion of their portfolio in gold as insurance against a similar future collapse because gold has historically been a store of value from ancient times to today.
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Gold is a lousy speculative investment. Invest in a diversified portfolio of mutual funds over many years and don't worry about inflation.\n\nGold has increased in value at the rate of 1.47%/year since 1988. Gold is currently very near its high for the period . . . If you had bought it at its lowest point since 1988 you would have made over 100% as of today.\n\nIf you bought an S&P 500 fund at its lowest point since 1988, you would have made over 600% as of today . . .
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High Yield Investment Program. 80% are scams. The only 20% which are real--which are also really fantastic ways to make money--are listed at http://www.goldrankings.com\n\nGood luck!