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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 3976241, member: 73489&quot;]<span style="color: #660033">One thing strikes me from a technical POV as an investment analyst....you have NEVER had a period from the 1970&#039;s where the coin hobby could price on natural supply and demand.&nbsp; You&#039;ve ALWAYS been beseiged by soaring or plummeting PM prices and/or bubbles:</span></p><ul> <li><span style="color: #660033">1970&#039;s:&nbsp; Gold price up 20-fold, inflation quadruples, exchange rates unfixed, coin prices soar.</span></li> <li><span style="color: #660033">1980&#039;s:&nbsp;&nbsp; Coin prices collapse after 1980, gold cut in half, silver more.</span></li> <li><span style="color: #660033">1990&#039;s:&nbsp; Coin prices soar (1989-90) early on then collapse with most coins down 75%.</span></li> <li><span style="color: #660033">2000&#039;s:&nbsp; Coins leverage to bullion shows as their prices &quot;race ahead&quot; twice when gold moves (2000 and then again in 2010).&nbsp; Overshoots lead to corrections.</span></li> </ul><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">Good point on the ancients, I&#039;ve taken to them from an aesthetic and investment POV </span></b>but I have NO IDEA what to buy, when to buy it, price, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Considering Doug/GDJSMP says they&#039;ve been in a 16-year bull market, <i>how do I know I&#039;m not the sucker at the top of the market coming in who&#039;ll be under water a ton in a few months or quarters ?</i>&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Could be my personal recreation of folks who bought in during 1980, 1989, or 2007.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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