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Originally Posted by Sausage
I can see what you are saying Will, but in the case of buying gold and silver it's not a matter of peaks and lows, it's a matter of reading the economic events and conditions that are associated with those highs and lows.
The thing is that gold and silver haven't really gained or lost that much true value over the years ... right back to Roman days. They buy you roughly the same resource worth as they have throughout history, it's only the value of fiat currency that has changed.
Basically the more fiat currency you print and the more unstable your currency seems, the more people are going to try and protect their wealth in the stability of gold, or to a lesser extent silver.
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I hope you can read the economic events well enough to know when to buy or sell because the up and downs are going to happen. The way people talk around here they make it sound like you can't lose if you buy either gold or silver, its going to keep going up in value for ever. When in reality you could buy silver today for $30 and it could crash to 1/2 that and not hit $30 again for 10 years, said person might need money some time in the future have to sell and take a huge loss. It really isn't much different then the stock market.