Gold and silver have again become temporarily imprisoned in a trading range. Meanwhile, the propaganda machine is sowing doubt.
One of the reasons why I stay very active in discussions with readers on our forum is that it is a wonderful way of keeping in touch with what the ordinary investor is thinking. More specifically, such interaction is frequently the inspiration for my commentaries, and that is once again the case with this topic.
The scenario is a familiar one for veteran investors in this sector. Gold and silver have again become temporarily imprisoned in a trading range. Meanwhile the anti-gold and silver propaganda machine is busy sowing doubt and creating uncertainty. Their goal is simple: play upon the fears of newer investors to the sector, or wear them out via ordinary impatience.
This piece is especially aimed at those newer investors, because it delivers a simple yet irrefutable message: you have no choice other than to protect yourselves with precious metals. To illustrate how the bankers and their servant politicians have forced us into focusing our investments in precious metals requires visiting and understanding three concepts.
Turn Back The Clock:
Go back even 15 years in time, and the world of investing bears absolutely no resemblance to the Carnival of Fools which we see today. Back in that era, the vast majority of financial advisors preached a single mantra: “buy and hold”.
The premise is (was) simple: those people who place short-term bets in the market are not investors, they are gamblers – period. Investing by definition implies positioning one’s self in a particular sector/company, and then allowing the time for that investment opportunity to mature/ripen. The principle factor which separates investing from gambling is time.
Put another way, investors (as opposed to gamblers) provide themselves with the luxury of waiting for the optimal time to harvest their profits. They give their investment the necessary time for the fundamentals which support that investment to assert themselves. Conversely the gamblers who do nothing but make serial, short-term bets are merely momentum players. Time their bet perfectly (or nearly so) and they will make a profit. Fail to do so and they suffer inevitable losses.
How did the world of investing devolve from the sober, careful allocation of funds into frantically flitting from one (short-term) bet to another like a swarm of rabid butterflies? Simple. The vast majority of financial advisors finally became aware of their own gross incompetence. Not having the slightest clue about where our economies have been headed, these “experts” eventually acknowledged (after being surprised by one market crash after another) that when it came to investing they were much better at destroying fortunes than creating them.
At the same time, these highly-paid professionals(?) were not prepared to publicly acknowledge their own, massive deficiencies (and forgo the commissions which they parasitically rake-in). Thus instead of admitting that they were no longer capable of providing competent advice for investing, they absurdly announced that investing itself no longer existed. “Buy and hold is dead,” they (nearly) unanimously proclaimed.
Those members of the general public who had previously been investors suddenly discovered that their own financial advisors had given them all implicit ultimatums: change from investors into gamblers, or learn to invest on your own. Our website (and company) was formed for all those investors who don’t want to be gamblers, who do want to take control of their own financial futures, and who don’t like ultimatums (from individuals who are supposed to be working for them).
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