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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3122234, member: 77814&quot;]There&#039;s a lot of questions there.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ll have a variety of answers based upon the methodology each person has. </p><p><br /></p><p>For instance (a) you have ppl buying PMs because the world&#039;s economies will wilt and only PMs will be accepted; (b) ppl who believe PMs will skyrocket to $25k/oz for gold etc; (c) ppl who think PMs are pretty to look at and like collecting it for that reason; and everything in between.</p><p><br /></p><p>then you have ppl who buy (a) junk silver (non coin); (b) junk coin silver; (c) round/bar PMs close to spot; (d) slabbed PMs; (e) high premium./rare bars, rounds etc; (f) gov&#039;t issues PM coins; (g) gov&#039;t issued slabbed PM coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you have your (a) Silver lovers; (b) Gold lovers; (c) ppl who play the premium between silver and gold to increase their overall holdings; (d) platinum ppl; (e) Palladium.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you&#039;ll have ppl who buy gold at close to spot as possible - making irrelevant if it&#039;s South African Kuggerand, Canadian Maples, Austrian, Australian, UK, etc.&nbsp; Then some ppl (like me) who ONLY buy US Eagles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is platinum a steal right now?&nbsp; If you can buy it close to spot.&nbsp; And assuming the price recovers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I follow Platinum actually.&nbsp; a few months ago the premium between US Platinum eagles BU and Proof OGP was only $10-20.&nbsp; Now it&#039;s $70 yikes !!</p><p>But why do I collect Proof Platinum eagles … for the eagle design on the reverse.&nbsp; That&#039;s it. Period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold, I like Pre-33s</p><p>Silver- ASEs</p><p><br /></p><p>But I don&#039;t buy slabbed coins.&nbsp; &quot;my belief&quot; is I like to stay as close to &quot;spot&quot; as possible.&nbsp; As in a down economy the premium you pay in a upward economy is going to be slaughtered in a down economy.&nbsp; If you sell to a LCS they&#039;ll offer only spot for BU, Proof or PF70 Proof.&nbsp; Quite a potential loss of original acquisition costs.&nbsp; Plus who knows where spot is going to be in a down or up economy.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at 2011, we&#039;re at a gigantic LOSS today if you bought at spot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Time is your friend (or enemy).&nbsp; Spot prices *should* rise over a certain amount of time .. let&#039;s say 20 years.&nbsp; On the other hand, I can get a savings account that gets 1.8% and probably BEAT that spot price in 20 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;15-20%&quot;&nbsp; YIKES.&nbsp; I&#039;ve heard 3-5% and other numbers all over the place.&nbsp; Really it comes down to what you feel comfortable with. </p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, my stocks have skyrocketed in the past year.&nbsp; Like 300%.&nbsp; How do I keep up with PMs?&nbsp; stop buying food and buy PMs?&nbsp; I don&#039;t think so. </p><p><br /></p><p>I stopped buying PMs and the overall % of PMs to net worth has been dropping.&nbsp; I have NO PROBLEM with that as I&#039;m comfortable with the <u>TOTAL QUANTITY</u> that I have and not the Percentage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that helps.&nbsp; But with PMs ppl usually *find* the answer that they are comfortable with based upon their methodology of what answer they are looking for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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