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Precious Metals Market In A Boom!

Do you love to wear precious metals like gold, platinum or palladium? Women for sure love wearing precious metals like gold and platinum. The best gift of love is to give a gold ring or necklace. Since, the dawn of human history, metals like gold, silver and platinum have been considered to be highly precious and used for trading and storing wealth.

Gold and silver have withstood the test of time and are still considered to be a store of value and as a medium of exchange. For a long time, the world had used the gold standard to back the global financial system. As an investor, you might ask what is in it for you by investing in precious metals like gold, silver, platinum or palladium.

Then, you must know that the precious metals bull market started in 2000 and still continues after one whole decade. The period 2000-2010 has been inflationary with every country inflating its? currency. Inflation is a big danger as the global economy comes out of the present recession especially for the US as FED has been printing a lot of greenbacks lately.

Now, at the start of the last decade, in 2000, the price of an ounce of gold was hovering aroung $288. But now, an ounce of gold is selling around $1,200, an unprecedented high price for gold even in it?s long long history. No one could imagine a few years back that gold price would go this high. A rise from $288 to $1,200 is almost like a capital gain of 315%. Now, you can compare the performance of investing in gold over the last decade with the performance of passive investment in an index fund like Dow or the S&P 500. The return would be negligible.

As more and more money gets printed in the coming decade to ward off the effects of the crippling inflation, the boom in the precious metals market is going to continue for many more years to come. As an investor, before investing in precious metals, you should know that the longer the term of your investment in precious metal, the more chances their are of building your wealth.

Now, instead of investing long term, you can invest in precious metals as a means of giving you a steady income by investing in a divident paying mining stocks of a mature mining company. You can also generate income for yourself by writing covered calles on stocks of large mining companies if you own them. This way, you don?t have to buy them. You can even invest in Certificates of Deposit (CDs) that are tied to gold and silver. These CDs invrease in value when gold prices increase giving you a capital gain.

You can even buy these precious metals for your loved ones and they will become more valuable with time. You can invest in precious metals mutual funds, precious metals ETFs or even learn how to trade gold, silver, platinum or palladium futures contracts. You can even invest in long term options on stock mining companies (LEAPs), invest in options on some gold index or precious metal ETF. Just keep this in mind, the bull market in precious metals is to stay for many more years. So, don?t miss this bull market.

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