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<p>[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 1332905, member: 3011"]This probably won't come out right, but I'll give it a shot:</p><p><br /></p><p>The old saying is to buy low and sell high. Right now, gold and silver have been in a bull market for a decade. The stock market is still about where it was in 1998. This should make people stop and think about which investment is likely to be low and which is likely to be high. The past decade and perhaps the next couple of years were/are the time to own the metals. But the time will come, perhaps much sooner than most expect, when the stock market will outperform gold by a wide margin for a decade or more. So you may want to consider an index fund or actively managed stock mutual fund as an alternative to owning gold if your goal is profit maximization. If you already own a lot of stocks, then maybe the added diversification of gold makes some sense. Only you can make that determination.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 1332905, member: 3011"]This probably won't come out right, but I'll give it a shot: The old saying is to buy low and sell high. Right now, gold and silver have been in a bull market for a decade. The stock market is still about where it was in 1998. This should make people stop and think about which investment is likely to be low and which is likely to be high. The past decade and perhaps the next couple of years were/are the time to own the metals. But the time will come, perhaps much sooner than most expect, when the stock market will outperform gold by a wide margin for a decade or more. So you may want to consider an index fund or actively managed stock mutual fund as an alternative to owning gold if your goal is profit maximization. If you already own a lot of stocks, then maybe the added diversification of gold makes some sense. Only you can make that determination.[/QUOTE]
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