Sell Some of Your Gold If and When Any 1 of These 10 Events Occur (+2K Views)

Most of us will sell our gold sometime between now and never so what events will probably indicate that the time has come to sell at least some of your gold? Words: 910

So says the Deviant Investor, GE Christenson (www.DeviantInvestor.com) in edited excerpts from his original article* entitled How Will I Know When To Sell My Gold?. 

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Christenson goes on to say, in part:

[Below are 10 such “happenings”:]

Sell some gold when:

1. The gold/silver ratio drops down to around 15 to 1. When gold and silver prices have both risen beyond all typical expectations, the ratio will probably drop to between 10 and 20 to 1. The ratio was about 17 to 1 at the bubble peak in 1980. The gold to silver ratio is currently about 51 to 1. [Read: Gold:Silver Ratio Suggests MUCH Higher Price of Silver in Next Few Years]
2. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW) ratio to gold (DOW/Gold ratio) has dropped to near 1 to 1. The ratio is currently about 7.5 to 1. The ratio could reach 1 to 1, for example, if the Dow were priced at 10,000 and gold was selling for $10,000 per ounce. At the peak of the 1980 gold bubble, the ratio was approximately 1 to 1. [Read: Gold to Go Ballistic Causing the Dow-Gold Ratio to Ultimately Reach 1:1 – Here’s Why]
3. The gold/crude oil ratio rises to perhaps 30 to 1. If crude oil is priced at $300 per barrel and gold is priced at $9,000, that is a 30 to 1 ratio. In 1980 the peak ratio was about 25 to 1.
4. You can pay off the entire mortgage on your house with 10 to 20 ounces of gold.
5. The “money honeys” on financial TV are running one story per hour on the rapidly rising price of gold.
6. Time magazine posts a picture of gold bars on their cover with a caption “The new bull market in gold.”
7. Your hairdresser/barber gushes about the gold she/he just bought and how it is sure to triple in price soon.
8. There are lines of people waiting at coin shops to buy gold.
9. People finally realize that “money (unbacked paper money) is accepted only because money is accepted,” and people have become reluctant to accept paper money.
10. People have realized that money only has value because people have faith in its value, and people have finally lost faith in unbacked paper money.

(I suggest you only sell “some” of your gold, not all of it, because it is always a good idea to keep some “real money” and not be utterly dependent upon unbacked paper currency.)

Additional thoughts:

Jim Sinclair suggests that, regarding gold, people should “buy fish lines and sell rhino horns.” Stated another way:

1. when the price has collapsed in a price spike down (looks like a fish line extending downward from a fishing pole) then we should buy [Read: Now’s Your Time: Take Advantage of Market Trepidation, Act With Uncommon Confidence & Buy (Some) More Gold!],
2. if the price has risen in a parabolic pattern (looks like a rhino horn), then it is time to sell a portion and wait for the correction,
3. if the price has fallen too far, too fast, and there is no fundamental reason for the price collapse, buy more,
4. if the price has rapidly rallied to new highs far beyond expectations, then it has moved too far, too fast. Those markets rallies, whether in gold, silver, the NASDAQ, crude oil, or real estate, always seem to correct in a crash, e.g. Gold and Silver in early 1980, the Nikkei 225 in 1990, and the NASDAQ in early 2000.

IMO it seems likely that gold and silver will go into a parabolic rise within a few years unless the money printing ceases – and we should plan on the money printing continuing for a LONG time. [Read: Gold Projected to Reach $4,000/ozt. Sometime Between Late 2015 & Mid 2017! Here’s My Rationale and Silver Projected to Reach $100/ozt. As Soon As Late 2015! Here’s My Rationale]

The common denominators are the human emotions of fear and greed. In simple terms, greed drives the market to new highs and fear causes the crash.

• People were “getting rich quick” when the NASDAQ rallied from about 1,100 to about 5,000 in less than 2 years – when greed had the upper hand. When the NASDAQ reached a natural stopping point, fear took over and people sold in panic or to preserve what value remained. If they did not sell and rode the market all the way down, they lost a significant portion of their investment and paper profits. Fear caused people to sell, which created more fear and selling, and the waterfall decline fed upon itself until the sellers were exhausted.
• Similarly, in 2008, when gold had collapsed from over $1,000 to under $700…in seven months, most amateur investors were reluctant to buy because they were fearful that the price of gold would decline further.

Professionals buy the bottoms and sell the tops. Fearful amateurs sell down into the bottoms and then buy back near the tops when greed takes over….

The Bottom Line:

• Buy when the “blood is running in the streets,” and sell when everyone else wants to buy. [Read: The Time to Buy Gold Is When There Is Blood In the Streets and That Time Is NOW!]
• Use ratios from other markets as objective measures to indicate probable price extremes in markets. We can seldom pick the precise bottoms and tops, but we can carefully observe while others are being swept along by their own fears and greed.
• If we can keep our heads while others are losing theirs and make sound decisions based on numbers, analysis, and comparison ratios to other markets, we can make intelligent and informed buy and sell decisions.
• For now, it makes sense to me to hold gold and silver and to carefully evaluate everything else….

*http://www.deviantinvestor.com/1890/how-will-i-know-when-to-sell-my-gold/ (If you would like to be updated on new blog posts, please subscribe to my RSS Feed or e-mail.)

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