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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maksimfa, post: 524529, member: 17157&quot;]Depends.&nbsp; If unhedged, and it is part of your overall investment portfolio, sounds about right....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you just like gold, but want to protect on the downside.... believe it or not, you can buy a little insurance against it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Say you have 100oz of gold via bullion, coins, etf&#039;s, etc... an easy thing to do is to buy a put option, for a very small premium, that if gold were to go down sometime in the future, you would make money to balance the &quot;paper loss&quot; on your gold holdings.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Otherwise, physical precious metals, or mining companies and their stocks are a good diversifier as well.&nbsp; typically, gold stocks and gold trade hand in hand....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>but I agree, holding 100oz of gold in hand, or a 100 shares representing the same in a depository of HSBC..... the gold looks cooler in hand... but we all know it can be kind of ludicrous.... for the same reason we dont hold thousands of dollars in federal reserve notes in single dollar bills in our homes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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