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www.es22.com/f :Outlook on Gold, Gold Funds Forgive the sudden spurt of posts on my G+ stream. But this is actually a response to a customer query on gold. I am sure you know the basics - you can invest in gold in the following methods : 1. Buy Gold as coins/bars 2. Buy gold jewellery c. Buy Gold ETFs 4. Buy Gold Fund-of-Funds 5. Buy Gold-related companies 6. Dont touch gold ! Do see the post below, but our view is : a.1 - 2 years horizon : Dont touch gold b. 5-9 years : ok, you may buy c. 10 years + : Go for it I have purposely kept the 3-4 yr horizon unanswered ! nb . Outlook on Gold - a writeup on Sept 2011, https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6QN3pDemqnYYWU4YmY5OTctNzQ2My00MTgzLWEwMDEtYmNhNjJlODFkMDYy&hl=en_GB. View or comment on sathish narayanan's post »

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To avoid being lynched on being slightly anti-gold ( esp by my wife), am attaching the gold price rates over last 50-60  years or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_price_in_USD.png

As you can see from this, 

1960-70 & 75-77 and 1980 - 2000 : u've lost out if you had invested in gold

70-75 : good

77 - 80 : fantastic bonanza

2000 - 2008 : good

2008-2011 : fantastic bonanza

And that's my point - should we learn from history ?