It's a strange situation because it depends on time frame.%%
LOL; that '' built on hot air '' was why they based US currency so long on gold, silver + copper/LOL?. Dont worry we have, in God we trust on our US money.
GOLD never has done as well as DOW/DIA or SPY benchmarks,or real estate long term.
Gold has outperformed the DJIA over 20 years by about 30%.
DJIA has outperformed gold by 100% over 30 years.
But we live in the real world, no one I know on ET invests for capital gains, gold or Dow stocks for 20-30 years, most of us trade in hours, days, weeks or months with the odd stock maybe 5 years if lucky.
The difficulty I have with trading gold stocks is they dance all over the place and silver yet more volatile again.
I don't know with a high degree of certainty what gold or silver will do next, they just meanders off into a certain direction for no apparent rhyme nor reason like lost sheep.
It probably more suits short term traders than long term.

