Investing

Maybe now isn't the right time to jump in with 70% of your portfolio, but surely having 0% of your portfolio in the market is the wrong choice. Go ahead and put a little money in and set up some sort of automated investment so you're continuing to put money into the market regularly over time.

Anyone who is not prepared to take a contrarian view today, risks to be a real victim in the next 5-7 years.

Dr. Martin Murenbeeld, chief economist for Dundee Wealth Economics and one of the smartest gold minds around, outlines below his nine bullish arguments for gold.

If wealth preservation investors get out of their stocks and buy silver, they are likely to avoid the most massive wealth destruction in the next few years. Let me explain.

In mining exploration, an “anomaly” is a geological formation that might attract a prospector’s interest. However, one rule of thumb is that you have to look at 1,000 anomalies to find one prospect and fewer than one prospect in a thousand turns into a mine. In other words, finding a mine is a million-to-one shot and that is one reason why junior mining stocks are highly speculative. Another reason is that it’s much easier to launch and promote one of these stocks than it is to build a profitable business. So junior mines attract more than their share of unscrupulous operators and stock promoters. Words: 504

If some of the world’s largest investment funds decided to make even a small increase in their allocation to physical gold and gold stocks it would be like trying to drain Niagara Falls with a fire hose. Just a small percentage increase in allocation towards gold and gold stocks among global fund managers would make gold stocks double… and then double again… and double again.

The fact that relatively few investors know much about the various types of companies in the precious metals mining sector is an indication that this market is many years away from peaking. This article provides a basic check-list of what to look for in these companies.

While investing in gold mining companies is not quite as simple as novices to this sector might at first conclude, neither is it so overwhelmingly complicated as to make these companies inaccessible to individual, retail investors. Below are a number of things to look for when considering an investment in such companies. Words: 2745

One cliché I despise is, “it takes money to make money.” True, you can’t create money out of nothing (unless you’re the U.S. Federal Reserve), but it implies that only the rich can truly prosper. While that was true in regards to investing in stocks many years ago that certainly is not the case today. Here's why.

Buying on margin can mean potentially higher returns – but it can also lead to large losses very fast. [This article outlines 6 things to know about buying on margin and 3 key risks of doing so.] Words: 848