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

• I'm new to investing in Precious Metals - do you have a set portfolio or do you provide trading tips?

  May 31, 2010, 12:00 PM

  I am an Australian and new to investing in overseas markets and follow your commentary, do you have a set portfolio to follow or just trade tips in your premium service if i sign up can you provide some guidance.

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• If the bond market collapses, will precious metals decline?

  November 19, 2010, 12:00 PM

  Could an implosion of the bond market take gold, silver and mining stocks substantially lower? If not, what would actually happen to precious metals? I still remember gold going down in 2008 despite being a safe haven.

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• If the dollar collapses, will I be able to sell my precious metals?

  February 25, 2011, 12:00 PM

  Imagine the U.S. dollar hitting rock bottom. Riots in the streets. No jobs. How do we all survive? If the dollar is worthless how do profits from precious metals help me? I am really confused. It is great to see my money growing. But if all hell breaks loose, how do a turn my million dollars into something that I can use?

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• Is a long-term correction in gold possible?

  September 30, 2011, 12:00 PM

  What are the chances that gold will go down another 200, 300, or whatever and stays there for years or keeps going down? In the end, if metals stay in a bull phase, then you have the right idea of trying not to time the bottom, and simply getting in at a significant pullback.

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• Is AAPL:GLD a good ratio to use to buy gold?

  March 16, 2012, 12:00 PM

  I wonder if you would comment on whether AAPL:GLD yields a good ratio to use to buy either of the two. You use GDX:SPY in your analysis. Thanks.

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• Is gold correlated with the US debt ceiling?

  August 1, 2012, 12:00 PM

  You often discuss the correlation between the price of gold and a number of other factors. Here's an interesting thing to use for correlation: the US debt. Some charts imply we can project gold's price if we can estimate the future US debt and debt ceiling.

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• Is gold overvalued? If not, how high can it go?

  December 14, 2012, 12:00 PM

  I am basically coming to the conclusion that the price of gold has been outstripping the fall in the purchasing power of the USD for a while now. The main explanation for this is simply that gold traders are building in a premium into gold prices based on future erosion of the USD as a possible outcome of QE and global major central bank monetary easing i.e. expected inflation. Currently inflation is expected to rise. This has not happened, and interest rates will remain low for at least two years if not longer. Consequently there is no real reason for gold to trade relatively high – until inflation is confirmed which may take several years. In the meantime, gold will either stay range-bound at best, or could drop much further. My question is how far could you see gold falling in this "overvalued" context, and how long could it then take before gold prices break out decisively?

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• Is it correct to treat junior gold and silver stocks as long-term capital?

  February 23, 2012, 12:00 PM

  This is not the first time you've differentiated between long term and speculative capital, and I wonder if you could clarify this (...) What is your opinion - is it correct, using your terminology to treat junior gold and silver stocks as "long-term capital?"

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