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Based on the March 2nd, 2012 Premium Update. Visit our archives for more gold & silver analysis.

When a roller coaster plunges it’s gut-churning, heart-racing, blood curdling, in a word–petrifying. That’s how precious metals investors must have felt Wednesday when gold plunged more than 5 per cent to hit a low of $1,688.44 ounce, after earlier trading as high a $1,791.49 an ounce.

Based on the February 17th, 2012 Premium Update. Visit our archives for more gold & silver analysis. We like Warren Buffett. We respect Warren Buffett. We’d love to sit and have lunch with him one day. As an investor, Warren Buffett is in a class all of his own. But the Oracle of Omaha just … Continue reading

There is a study published by the Credit Suisse and the London Business School that says that gold prices have been too volatile to play a reliable role as a hedge against inflation over the past 112 years.

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This December gold prices swooned by more than 10 per cent in their biggest monthly fall since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

According to Goldman Sachs, gold provided the best returns of all commodities in the past five years when adjusted for volatility and says the rally will continue as options traders signal no change in the metal’s relatively low risk.

This week marked the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar, and according to Chinese mythology, Dragon years bring powerful changes and optimism representing imperial power, prosperity and good luck.

In our previous essays, we emphasized that the long- and short-term trends for gold are up.

There are certain dogmas held sacrosanct by precious metals investors and one of them is that platinum is supposed to be more expensive than gold.

Our last week’s comments on the possible rally in gold (January 13th, 2012) are still up to day, so we will begin this essay with a quote from the aforementioned essay and then we will move to the silver market.

Gold rallied this week hitting its highest in a month and breaking above its 200-day moving average