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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 782579, member: 4626"]Palladium is the absolute worst kind of investment... an unpredictable one. It goes up and down in value not due to any reasonable predictors but largely due to the psychological mood of investors. Some days they like it and bid it higher... some days they don't. It seems to move up and down reliably with other precious metals... because when people are in a buying or selling mood with gold, platinum, and other precious metals a handful will pick up some palladium too to diversify. But they'll often sell it off before they ever sell off their gold and platinum, which they consider to be safer in the long run, so palladium will always go down before the others do (in fact dropping palladium prices is a good signal that gold and platinum will go down soon too!).</p><p><br /></p><p>It's never going to give you the proportional profit gold and platinum will... but you'll risk losing less too. So if you're looking for a relatively low risk, low yield, investment, you could do worse I suppose. Just don't get too excited about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Canada and China both put out some nice palladium coins. It would be worth picking up a few. At least you'll have some nice coins regardless of what palladium does.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 782579, member: 4626"]Palladium is the absolute worst kind of investment... an unpredictable one. It goes up and down in value not due to any reasonable predictors but largely due to the psychological mood of investors. Some days they like it and bid it higher... some days they don't. It seems to move up and down reliably with other precious metals... because when people are in a buying or selling mood with gold, platinum, and other precious metals a handful will pick up some palladium too to diversify. But they'll often sell it off before they ever sell off their gold and platinum, which they consider to be safer in the long run, so palladium will always go down before the others do (in fact dropping palladium prices is a good signal that gold and platinum will go down soon too!). It's never going to give you the proportional profit gold and platinum will... but you'll risk losing less too. So if you're looking for a relatively low risk, low yield, investment, you could do worse I suppose. Just don't get too excited about it. Canada and China both put out some nice palladium coins. It would be worth picking up a few. At least you'll have some nice coins regardless of what palladium does.[/QUOTE]
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