physical gold/silver stash ratio

steveh | 2020-07-09 | me

[SteveH]

in one's physical precious metal stash, what is the recommended/optimal amount of gold (contemporary gold coin) to silver (junk silver coin)?

i had been going towards 50%/50%, but gold seems on an upswing at the moment, so now i am thinking of increasing the ratio of gold to silver by about 15%.

[Leep]

Some models show Biden winning by 115%?

[Leep]

Sorry, wrong thread.

[teeman8r]

Buy what’s low, sell what’s high

[Veggie Todd]

Ask Ted Binion.

[LurkingSince'98]

hi

you’ve probably heard of the saying “buy low, sell high”

you have it exactly backwards

do not-as in never-buy when the price is high and you think you’re going to miss out

when the price goes down then buy

I’d buy .999 silver rounds not junk silver in small buys

adjust as the price changes

when it goes up BUY LESS
when it goes down BUY MORE

good luck

[af_vet_1981]

Gold and silver are problematic; thieves break in and steal them; governments confiscate them. Gold is too expensive to waste money on that can be put to better use such as food, housing, clothing, and defensive weapons.

The sales hype that in a national emergency people will trade gold and silver instead of currency does not explain the theft and violence that would accompany said emergency. In a tribulation of lawlessness, whoever has the weapons will just take the gold and silver, and whatever else one possesses, except one's soul.

Planning for lean years, as Joseph did, in a period of law and order, is another matter entirely.

[JonPreston]

I have 50/50 mix of physical au to ag. The gold is easier to store, for sure. Over the past year both have increased by app. 25%, which is a knockout year.

[dp0622]

Commodities are a different story. Very very few succeed but my brother-in-law made 70 million dollars on the exchange.

Atlas God is my witness he wouldnt buy me a $2 soda if we were in the same deli together :-)

[rusty millet]

Are you talking about dollar allocation ratio or weight accumulation ratio?

[SteveH]

lol. actually that sounded somewhat profound.

[Dusty Road]

Take what money you have to invest in gold and silver and invest in old Colt’s and Winchesters.

[kearnyirish2]

Back when I had money to set aside I liked the silver Canadian Maple Leafs; while the US 1 oz. round had a face value of $1, the Maple Leaf face value was C$5 - and they were selling for $4.99 if you’d buy lots of 10.

When I was in the Bahamas years ago I took along some $25 silver coins they had issued; I bought them for silver price (less than $7/oz. at the time) and since the Bahamian dollar trades at par with the US, I changed them for $25 each. You had to go to a bank to do it; they were removing them from circulation (like the US $1,000 bill).

[RockyTx]

silver is an industrial metal

when solar cells go zero-silver...

how much silver will be needed?

please be specific if possible
thanks
Rocky

[null and void]

Free Silver 16:1

[Kozak]

Because in your ridiculous world view, people who own gold and silver, can’t own weapons or food, or housing.

[freedumb2003]

That’s a LOT of lead in the mix!

lol

[dila813]

Add a Food and Ammo stash

[jdsteel]

The markup on buying physical gold is pretty high. The discount when you try to sell it doesn’t help either. There’s a big spread.

Then add the fact that gold was $1,600 per oz in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s. Those dollars were worth a whole lot more then, so inflation adjusted gold had been a horrible investment long term.

If you are worried about SHTF stuff, stockpile ammo. The lead will be more valuable to you than silver or gold.

[Laslo Fripp]

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