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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 687671, member: 3011&quot;]I think you are underestimating the difficulty in beating the market averages.&nbsp; If what you said could be done as easily as you suggest, it would be the professionals doing it first, and most of us would be multi-millionaires.&nbsp; Even your favorite KO is far below its price in the late 90&#039;s -- a decade of below zero return which is a long time for most of us and perhaps 25% of the total time you&#039;ll have in your life to accumulate wealth.&nbsp; In the end, it becomes a matter of buying and selling at the correct time.&nbsp; I was a long-time holder of BRK -- a stock people hold almost as a religion.&nbsp; In early 2003 I grit my teeth and sold it to reinvest the proceeds into the energy and precious metals sectors with pretty decent results.&nbsp; For everything there is a season, and you are correct that gold is just one more investment tool in the toolbelt.&nbsp; The time will come when the correct action will be to sell gold and silver bullion and reinvest in something as unlikely as, say banks.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Even they will have their day in the sun again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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