How high will gold go?
About 10 years ago I wrote about buying gold and silver as an investment. Since then the price of gold has gone up 175% in $CAD.
That’s a bit more than 10% return annually. But for most of the 2010s and early 2020s the price of gold did not make any big moves. In fact if you had bought an ounce in 2012 and sold it 10 years later in 2022 you would have only broken even as the price was the same. 😅
Here’s a monthly chart of gold in USD.
It wasn’t until this year that gold’s price broke out of a trading range and is now climbing higher than ever.
That’s the thing with precious metals. You have to be patient because although the price doesn’t explode to the upside often, you don’t want to miss it when it does.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a pullback now. The blue arrows in the chart above measures the same price movement. The market likes to move in twos. And gold has recently reached its measured move target.
Either gold will continue to move higher from here, or it will make a correction and a top will be put in around this current price level of US$2750/oz. The latter is more likely the case because even if gold wants to move higher, it doesn’t have to be in a straight line as somewhere along the way some people will be selling to take profits, putting downward pressure on the price.
The one issue with gold is that it doesn’t produce any yield. That’s why it has to make up for it with price appreciation. 🙂
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gold has always been a good hedge strategy for any portfolio, I do also have a bit of money in lithium mines as well as gold mines rather than direct gold
the US currency is literally tied to gold so it’s a no brainer to have some shape or form of it but the question is, what form?
What form is a good question. There seems to always be a cost to owning it. Even if you hold the physical asset like myself you’ll need to pay for a safety deposit box or use some kind of other insurance.
I always wondered how the people stored the gold after the Costco “gold rush” lol I remember BC was consistently sold out cuz Costco was selling below market price. Safety deposit boxes seems to be the norm, but I have also heard of people stuffing theirs into the fridge? lolol