QUOTE(Unkerpanjang @ Feb 19 2021, 05:55 PM)
So, talking to myself. Paper gold, silver (etf, etp) is most manipulated pricing controlled by the JP Morgan, Goldman Sach n other Hedge Funds. Hence, when buying physical gold, you pay a premium% over the spot price. The retail guys don't move the needle.
The MY gold dealer market is Silverbullion, Numex, My Gold, Bulliongold, etc that u can Google. The 100grams is 2-3% over spot price while buy/sell spread is 7-10%. MY pricing is sometimes better than SG dealer due to fluctuating exchange rate.
Similarly, buy/sell spread for Poh Kong, Wah Chan 99.99% gold is 10%, for the 916 gold is 30%.
Example today, Silverbullion sell price 100gm pamp swiss is $23.5k while goldsmith $24.4k. So, my approach to paper gold is purely for my teenage children to appreciate investment. I continue to buy physical >2.5kg gold while paper gold is maybe, 30gram.
For gold beginners, watch YouTube Mike Maloney Hidden Secrets of Money 1-7, follow videos by Rick Rule, Andy Schectman, Kitco David.
QUOTE(Unkerpanjang @ Feb 19 2021, 08:12 PM)
Sharing some info, in the past gold was considered a tier3 asset in the banks. Meaning, banks can only consider 50% of gold worth as part of their balance sheet. I think last 4 years, world wide been changed to tier 1 asset. Meaning 100% worth in balance sheet.
You have cash in the bank in Savings Account, Fd, Asnb, etc. Quite liquid.. But not immediately avail if atm down or bank run/ closure. So, keeping physical gold is like your emergency cash, at home. Bottomline, is hide from the Govt tracking system.
Only exception, as in usa, gold jewellery is not subjected to Govt confiscation.
Gold is so dense, 2kg = $500k gold easily hidden in a relative small secret compartment at home. Also, places like G7 safety lockers are very expensive, $3k/year rental (when there's no dividend yield in gold)
Keep physical gold, there's speculation on monetary reset. Meaning price will go up. Our RM will devalue more as compared to Asean currency basket.
There's major risk for those keeping etf, etp, the Funds T&C allows the Fund to NOT honor the agreement and just pay you back your invested cash amount, and not the potential full realized peak price. Cannot sue them, the law n contract is to their favor.
This is latest news, lessons learnt from the silver squeeze incident, same applies to gold.
Not sure if your journal.

I seconded your thoughts and knowledge.
Whoever wanna get started or still on the fence about investing should read and reread this thorough analysis. But to me it does require sufficient knowledge first to understand the most.
I personally took few years fr reading just precious metals articles in magazines, commodity section in papers and few versions oh gold n silver threads in lyn before actually investing in it more substantially.
Once we grasp the fundamentals, the stock price movement doesn't mean much already. U know ur stash is there.
Paper gold tricky. More ways to manipulate n be manipulated. I'd rather spend the energy to some other thing lol