Gold Q&A: Answers to our Subscribers' Most Pressing Questions

• How do I translate the spot prices of metals into the prices of ETFs?

  June 6, 2013, 12:00 PM

  How to calculate the price of the GLD ETF based on the spot price of physical gold? Your indicators and stop-loss levels make use of the prices of the physical metal. I'd like to know how to apply them to ETFs.

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• How do you define a breakout?

  March 25, 2011, 12:00 PM

  When you analyze the charts, you use the term “breakout” pretty often. I would appreciate if you could elaborate on what it precisely means. Thank you.

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• How do you develop and use your precious metals cycle analysis?

  February 10, 2012, 12:00 PM

  Very good analysis in your recent article. Please tell me how you develop and use your time cycle analysis. Are the time cycle’s duration, beginning and end based on the previous short term cycles and durations? Have you studied this analysis somewhere else or is it from simply observing the previous cycles and then extrapolating?

  This is key, and would really help a short term trader like myself protect the profits he makes in the upswings and also profit from the coming downswings which as you know can be very deep in miners and silver.

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• How has the purchasing power of gold increased since 1900?

  June 15, 2012, 12:00 PM

  Since the year 1900 the real purchasing power of the USD has eroded massively. It appears today to have lost 99% in its purchasing power. This is staggering if correct. Assuming it is true, has the corresponding real purchasing power of gold over this time increased by more than, less than, or equal to 99%?

  To what extent has gold kept track with the fall in the real purchasing power of the USD? Of course gold also acts as a safe haven, making a perfect calculation is difficult. But the answer to this question is perhaps useful to better understand why gold has been behaving more like a risk asset of late.

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• How high do you expect the gold:silver ratio to move?

  March 4, 2011, 12:00 PM

  The gold:silver ratio is far from its historical highs. Do you expect it to go up? What would be the upper limit of such a movement?

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• How long do you think the bull market in precious metals will last?

  March 23, 2012, 12:00 PM

  How long do you think the bull market in precious metals will last? Also, what would be a good exit strategy? I've suffered a lot of losses and am in the red overall. I am wondering if I have time to make it back going forward.

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• How to deal with huge volatility in gold and silver prices?

  October 14, 2011, 12:00 PM

  I don't think I have much more stomach for volatility in gold and silver prices. I haven't made much money in a while.

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