May 27, 2008

Ways of the gold


Believe it or not, many investors back away from investing in gold even if the know about ever increasing gold value. With the falling dollar value, the gold value has to rise making gold the perfect thing to invest in.

There are many ways one can invest in gold.

  • The first, and the easiest way that comes to mind is the ancient way of owning it. Buying American Eagles, Canadian Maples and equivalents is the way to go.
  • Buying gold through services like E- Bullion might be just another way to go.
  • Gold mutual finding is another viable option. It is basically buying stocks for companies like Newmont Mining or Barrick Gold that have assets in gold, or are into gold mining.
  • Owning parts of gold mines with junior gold stocks. Although this method has potential for huge returns. It is also risky.
  • ETF of Gold Exchange Traded Fund is probably the safest bet when it comes to investing in gold. These are mutual funds that own bullion itself and gets traded in a stock exchange. Streetracks Gold Trust and iShares COMEX Gold Trust are the two major players in that block.

Evidently, Nixon has laid the path to USD’s demise by removing the gold standard. I will not wait around for total depreciation of dollar value. I am going for some gold in my investment portfolio as soon as possible.

Golden Investments

With the US$ falling, there is no security in currency anymore. Parking money in the precious metals would be smart move in this age of inflation. Gold’s value in USD has increased quite a bit in last few years.

Here’s a chart showing just by how much Gold has increased in since 1995. Ever since 1997 there has not been any major devaluation of gold.

Since 2000’s $300 per ounce, it has come a long way nearing almost $1000 and that is more than 300%. Some people might think that it is too late to invest in gold now, but nothing can further than truth.

The gurus predict that the gold’s valuation will rise higher in years to come. There is no sight of decrease in near future.

According to analysts, the following will only help to push the rate of gold:

  • Oil prices in the past have only strengthened gold’s value, with the OPEC’s policy of keeping the oil prices high and increasing global demand for oil, the oil barrel price will keep increasing.
  • World’s gold demand has increased a lot. Jewelry’s demand alone, according to World Gold Council increased 37%
  • USD has fallen record low and that can only make gold prices go higher.
  • Foreign Governments like China are shifting dollar reserves to gold reserves.

I personally believe that not everyone can be rich at the same time; it is not a utopian world. With currency devaluation, the gold prices will shoot only higher. People investing in gold will win and people who are not are more than likely to lose.

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This is one of the very few HYIPs where I would probably think about investing money in four figures, but then it is just me. So far, AlcoHolding has kept their promise and delivered what they advertised. I did not run into any problems or glitches. The transactions have been very smooth and they took care of my requests of withdraw and deposit usually in less than an hour.

I took a bold step and invested quite a bit in their monthly scheme recently, There is no denying the fact that not being able to see every day's earnings and waiting for a month to see the results makes me a bit uncomfortable. To make matters worse, seeing the total earnings is more than the total deposits in the program statistics makes me wonder if the program will collapse.


Even though I am not so sure whether investing in AlcoHolding Inc monthly scheme was the right choice, I can tell for certain that I feel a lot better than I would have if I had invested the same amount in other HYIPs. I will keep posting on experiences with Alcoholding INc. In the mean time, let's not forget the golden rule - Do not invest more than what you cannot afford to lose.

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