holy fuck you guys are incapable of having a decent discussion, you actually expect me to reply when you post shit like this? for all my apparent shit investment philosophy, maybe it'd interest you that my portfolio is up 22% from beginning of the financial year already.
lulz lulkz my porfoll up 22%11!!11 therefore I knw moar den u lulz~~1111
yeah I made hundreds of thousands speculating with my parents' money in 07 suck my dick son.
money is a direct substitute for trading by barter, everyone knows its value. people work a days work, they get an income, a value is placed on their time and hence they can buy goods/services with their EARNED cash.
yeah and gold, like securities, is a direct substitute for money. everyone knows its value, they invest in it for a period of time in the hopes that it will appreciate. a value, represented by the required rate of return, is placed on their capital and hence they can buy goods/services with their EARNED cash???
come on bro tell us how gold is different from shares and derivatives which don't really do anything either when essentially the philosophy behind them as stores of value is the same.
gold is like the housing market in 07 right now. its speculation/emotional trading run rampant. 'oh why would the housing market crash in the states, this is prime land, there's constantly population growth to put more pricing pressure on real estate, it can never go down'.
Article/graph showing massive shorting increase in gold from investment banks.
http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/gold_short_063020106
p.s i realize that article is a year old, will update, have seen recent figures, can't remember the exact site though.
hahahahahahaha are you implying that there had never been any sort of speculation in the equity and derivative markets?
no really, tell us how gold is different from index funds or derivatives for that matter? just as the price of an index fund is tied to the performance of the index which it tracks, the price of gold is tied to the performance of the economy as a whole. when the ROI in other markets is much greater, the price of gold would naturally go down. and during times of great uncertainty and decreased ROI in other markets what happens to the price of gold?
just because in your view there is a gold bubble does not mean that people shouldn't use it as a store of value. the most you can say is that it's overpriced, not that it shouldn't be used as a store of value because lulz it doesn't do anything11!!!