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Technical view of Gold, and long term investment thoughts

by Gav 1 Comment

In addition to spot Gold and Silver trading, I have been looking at some long-term Gold investment possibilities. The idea is to apply long-term trend following approach by holding physical Gold (or Silver), while continue short-term speculative trading of these precious metals in spot or futures markets.

According to a report on Bloomberg, Gold price has slumped around 23 percent in the second quarter, the most since at least 2010. Have a look at the monthly chart of spot Gold, while I am not calling the bottom of Gold, a bullish harmonic pattern does seem to be forming now. Just bear in mind that this is a monthly chart, I am just trying to establish a long-term view here.

Gold monthly

During the uncertain times, in general, physical demand of Gold would increase. With my technical view mentioned above, this brings me to the thought of actually investing in some physical Gold. Traditionally, physical gold investments are always exclusive to sophisticated investors. It is very difficult for private individual to find a simple, safe and cost-effective way of buying, storing and selling gold or silver.

However, recently, I’ve come across Bullion Vault, which makes me reconsider about physical Gold or Silver investment.

Bullion Vault enables private individual from all over the world to own professional market gold and keep it in any quantity (investment amount can be as low as $100) in officially recognized bullion vaults in locations around the world.

Having research on the company, Bullion Vault provides a market place with lower dealing spreads comparing to traditional dealing price of gold coins and small bars. In addition to the market place, it also offers low-cost but secured storage options. Investors can choose their prefer storage locations in Zürich, London, New York or Singapore. Bullion Vault offers both Gold and Silver trading and storage facilities.

To me, it is worth spending time looking into this investment option.

 

 

Filed Under: headline post, investment

Save the date, when China will overtake America

by Gav Leave a Comment

Interesting comparison from The Economist. comparing Real GDP growth, Inflation, and currency appreciation, it is said that China will overtake US in 2019.

Full article here

Filed Under: investment, Links Tagged With: The Economist

Real advice for Long TERM investment

by Gav 14 Comments

I was reading this on news.com.au. This article…is kinda..dodgy to me.

Should I sell or hold?

Generally the experts recommend that it is better to hold and sit it out.

If you sell your shares or investment in most cases you will be triggering a real loss.

Remember, at the moment it is only a paper loss and you have not physically lost anything yet.

If you sell, as well as making a real loss you then have to find somewhere else to put your money.
……
This could mean you not only triggered a loss when you sold but you might also miss out on the share price rebound and have to buy in at higher prices.

Full crap here

Well, what do you think about this piece of ‘advice’? I thought it was “awesome”… :lol:.

The real advice the author is trying to say is…in plain english…. Just keep holding your losses, just keep holding..For long term, share market will be going up. Just keep holding …uhm..yeah, just keep holding…uhm…

Filed Under: investment, Links, news Tagged With: Links, news

My neglected investments

by Gav Leave a Comment

Three years ago I started some small investments with my CPF (Retirement fund in Singapore). I went for dollar cost averaging, which means small amount of monthly contribution. I invested in several funds.
I have to admit that I have ignored this account for quite sometime. Since it is end of the year, I take a look at it. Well….not so bad (not so good either), I have accumulated 14% growth of my invested capital.

Here are the funds that I have invested. I am still holding the position.

  • ASEAN GROWTH FUND – Equities in the ASEAN region
  • ENHANCER FUND– Equity markets of Asian Pacific region
  • GLOBAL GROWTH TREND PORTFOLIO– Global portfolio of equity securities. 50% United States, 11% Switzerland, 10% Japan, 7% United Kingdom etc
  • GLOBAL BOND FUND– 42% Europe, 48% United States, 10% Japan
  • GLOBAL VALUE EQUITY FUND– diversified portfolio of transferable securities, on world-wide basis

I really need to pay attention to them now. This post is just to summarize my positions and start tracking them closely.

Filed Under: investment

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