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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2392483, member: 73489&quot;]<b><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000">No.</span></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>A SPECULATION involves high-risk, usually when you are trying to beat time or using other forms of leverage to achieve excessive reward at the expense of risk.</u></b></p><p><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p><b><u>When you INVEST, you let time work FOR YOU.&nbsp; When you SPECULATE, time is working AGAINST YOU.</u></b></p><p><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #00b300">Think compound interest and/or dividends compounded with stock returns over many years.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>See above.</b>&nbsp; Since precious metals pay NO INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS most theories of portfolio management consider them speculative.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you have a stock that pays a dividend -- or CAN pay one (but chooses to invest in growth, i.e., NetFlix or Amazon) -- or invest in a bond, you at least get a cash return on your investment.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s not a bad point.&nbsp; But there are degrees of speculation, if you consider all investing speculating.</p><p><br /></p><p>An E&amp;P company is more speculative than ExxonMobil.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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