QUOTE(spikyz @ Sep 24 2011, 12:31 PM)
depending on situation ma
i'm quite concerned actually if this is just a major correction or something worse, a total crash. A look at the bubble mania chart:

gold chart for past 1 year:

now it gets scarily familiar with silver

If gold drop to around 1650 next week, that should be a good bargain. But, if it drops below 1200 then the bull is likely broken, I'd wait some time before going in again.
Silver might drop to around 25. If it drops below 20, then another bad news...
Now these are based on technical indicators, and to me, at the very least precious metals will not go PN4 @ total loss to your investment. It's price may get suppressed now but sooner or later it will come up again. If you are patient long enough, you will always get to sell higher
And another, the fundamentals have not changed either i.e. world economy, fiat money, debt crisis, etc. and in the long run precious metals should be way more expensive than now. I'm not that good at fundamentals, perhaps our gold expert prophetjul could share his views here
CAVEAT: DO NOT BUY/SELL BASED ON MY COMMENTS HERE AS THESE ARE JUST MY OWN OPINIONS BASED ON WHAT I READ. DO YOUR OWN DILLIGENCE BEFORE INVESTING.