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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 1443680, member: 36248&quot;]Fatima, good question.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buying and holding Precious Metals is 100% compatible with MPT and a Passive investing approach.&nbsp; &nbsp; Many people allocate 5-10% of their investment funds to PM.&nbsp; &nbsp; I personally dont invest any money directly in PM other than the fact that I own mining companies as part of a total market index fund, and therefore own Gold and Silver and rare earth metals, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp; I read and post in the bullion forum here on Cointalk because I enjoy the coin hobby.&nbsp; I own silver because I collect coins, and some of them contain silver.&nbsp; I do NOT consider any part of my coin hobby as part of my investments, as none of them can *produce* income.&nbsp; But I do have silver in some quantity laying around.&nbsp; &nbsp; I do like learning and reading about other peoples ideas, what they collect, what they buy, etc, which is another reason why I read posts here.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the market timing, the constant churning trying to guess when to buy or when to sell, when to stay out of the market, or get into the market, which makes bullion investing &quot;Active&quot; for alot of people.&nbsp; &nbsp; Certainly someone could be involved with bullion, and do so &quot;passively&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wont go into too many details, but the reason for doing so has to do with correlation, or more specifically negative correlation.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I would suggest that anyone confused on what Passive investing IS, and what it ISNT, read a good book, or spend some time reading a summary of it&#039;s concepts online.&nbsp; A great place to lurk: <a href="http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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