[quote=donnie.brasco,Sep 28 2011, 03:05 PM]
[quote=kevyeoh,Sep 28 2011, 02:11 PM]
Hmm...this 1 to 2 years is very misleading...
when i take a look at the gold trend for the past 30 years...
what i see is from 1982 until probably 2005, if you bought it at 1982 and you sell at sometime before 2005, you might not even earn anything...the price was pretty flat below USD500/ounce....
in fact...you might lose money.... and that's how many years we're talking about? if you have saved the money in FD in that period with compounded interest, i'm not sure if the FD might even yield more return than the gold capital gain...
so to those who even think that you will earn if keep 'long' term 1-2 years... u better consider properly...
good luck ...
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I dont know where you got that info, but from the history shown here
Gold Price History , the 30 years trend is increasing.

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From this graph some comodities have cooling period where the price will be stagnant some time. Not sure for current gold.