It is probably time to fade the retail gold buyers with the record new (and late) money coming to physical gold and new gold funds. If now is truly the destruction of the world's financial system, gold should be trading at $2,000 and up.
I know investors who still have gold coins bought with gold at $1,400 per oz, with 1980 US dollar. These coins has been out of circulation and pretty useless ever since. This is the intent of gold bugs and dealers: to get physical gold out of circulation on a message of fear and as an asset of last resort, which is really the only way to sell an asset of little practical values, other than historical and psychological ones.
Gold action in the 70s and 80s. Similar chart action can be seen today. If you are a long term trader, consider long after it breaks the trendline on the weekly chart from March 2008 high, and keep an eye on the US dollar index $DXY.
If however, the world economy recovers and inflation gets out of control then gold may take off, but that is unlikely for a while.
I know investors who still have gold coins bought with gold at $1,400 per oz, with 1980 US dollar. These coins has been out of circulation and pretty useless ever since. This is the intent of gold bugs and dealers: to get physical gold out of circulation on a message of fear and as an asset of last resort, which is really the only way to sell an asset of little practical values, other than historical and psychological ones.
http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSTRE4BG07720081217In Switzerland, home to the world's largest private banking industry, demand for gold bars and coins shot up six-fold to 21 tonnes in the third quarter of 2008, more than in any other European country.
Retail investment in gold rose 121 percent in the third quarter of 2008, an important contributor to the overall increase in global demand, the Gold Council said.
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Private bank Julius Baer in October launched a fund to invest exclusively in gold bars stored in highly secured vaults in Switzerland.
"The fascination with gold has been there since the beginning of civilization," said Schnellmann. "It cannot be explained: you can't eat gold, you cannot build anything resistant with it and yet people want to hoard it."
Gold action in the 70s and 80s. Similar chart action can be seen today. If you are a long term trader, consider long after it breaks the trendline on the weekly chart from March 2008 high, and keep an eye on the US dollar index $DXY.
If however, the world economy recovers and inflation gets out of control then gold may take off, but that is unlikely for a while.