To invest in gold

To invest in gold is an investment alternative that consists of acquiring gold directly or (for example, when buying gold ingots or currencies) or indirectly (for example, when buying certificates of deposit of gold, or investing in specialized investment funds in gold). The idea to invest in gold is to acquire it when its value is to the loss and selling it when it is to the rise.

Usually the gold investment usually is an investment refuge that the investors usually realize in the days of crisis, that is to say, is an investment that she tries to maintain the value of the money of the investor without the risk to that this one I devaluated myself, something that usually happens at the times of crisis.

If embargo, the gold investment not only is an investment refuge, but it can get to be a quite profitable investment if the investor knows when to buy it and when to sell it.

At times of relative economic calm, the specialists do not recommend to invest in short gold to or medium term due to their instability, but they affirm that to invest in long term gold, whatever time, she can be a good alternative of investment, due to the tendencies of the supply and the demand that indicate that every time a greater demand of gold exists and, therefore, an increase in their value.

Another one of the advantages to invest gold, is that the gold is not devaluated so easily as if it happens with the money; which had it mainly to that its value is not regulated by the governments, but is determined by the law of the supply and the demand; reason for which usually it is considered to the gold investment like a safe investment.

Also, the gold can become in cash at any time, since the investor can sell it quickly, at any time, and without having to pay commissions.

Nevertheless, he is not recommendable to invest all the money in gold, but to complement this investment along with others, and to create a portfolio of investments diversified.

The forms most common to invest in gold are:

• to buy physical gold: or gold ingots or currencies; disadvantages to buy gold directly are security (the risk of which it is robbed), the care that is due to have to him (a minimum damage can make him lose its value), and the cost of transport and maintenance or guards in case it is going it to one to leave in safekeeping in the strong box of some bank (which has a high cost).
• certificates of deposit: it is the form simplest to invest in gold; when acquiring a certificate of deposit one acquires the property of gold although it physically does not have in his house or the strong box of some bank or financial organization, eliminating therefore the disadvantages physically of having gold.
• futures of gold: they consist of derivatives where arrived the date from victory, the buyer has the obligation to buy the assets (in this case the gold), and the salesman has the obligation to give it; it is a form to invest in somewhat complicated gold, apart from which he requires the necessity that one must be very pending of the dates of victory.
• action of mining companies: it consists of acquiring titles of action of companies related to the gold extraction.
• investment funds: it consists of investing in investment funds that invest basically in action of companies related to the gold extraction.
• quoted bottoms: the quoted bottoms (ETF by its abbreviations in English) are investment funds that have the particularitity of which they quote in stock market like an action.

Alternative to gold is to invest in silver, which besides to be also metal precious (it is a type of money), is metal for consumption industrial, which means that it is finishing (unlike gold that instead of being consumed, is accumulated) and, therefore, its value increases more express than the value of gold.

Due to this one and to other reasons, the specialists affirm that in the future the value of the silver she will increase considerably and, considering that nowadays its price is low, could represent a good opportunity of investment that any person could be useful.

The forms to invest in silver are similar to those to invest in gold, one can, for example, buy bars or currencies of silver, buy certificates of deposit of silver, or invest in action of companies related to the extraction of silver.