Quote from Coolio:
Same here, mini gold is good to cut your teeth with, preserve your capital, expose weaknesses, see if you can integrate trading with your life, confirm strategies developed in paper trading.
I watch/ chart /GC but will continue to trade the mini. If I can't make any money then there no sense in messing around with /GC. If I can make a little with /YG mini then /GC will be even better with the higher leverage/ better fills all at the same commission level (for me).
Its walking before you dare run.