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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 128092, member: 3011&quot;]Everything has pros and cons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pool accounts are easy, but they are basically derivatives of silver and not silver itself.&nbsp; They are not safe and depend in the liquidity and financial soundness of the company [Kitco] issuing them. You own a promise to pay, not physical silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver mining stocks are pretty risky since virtually every silver company has terrible management.&nbsp; Nobody is sure why, but that&#039;s just the way it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bars could be a problem on resale.&nbsp; The purity is easy to fake and many places won&#039;t buy them without an assay paid by the seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>The silver ETF is interesting, but the prospectus says that Barclays will not provide for an audit of the silver held in their name by various dealers.&nbsp; This might never become an issue, or it could sink them in a bad market.&nbsp; Nobody knows because it is a new product.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver coins have pretty high bid/ask spreads and are subject to theft or damage, but at least you have physical possession.&nbsp; They also do not require assay upon resale.&nbsp; If well bought, the return could be greater than the movement in the price of the bullion [or not].</p><p><br /></p><p>Pick your poison.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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