Whether u save a few piss poor declining $ by halting a buy is irrevelant really as has been shown time and time again, the people who waited in years before saying "seems high" or def not now its at ATH have been had hopes dashed to time and get in on lower floor. Yes it declines but other then afew points in time where its stagnated Gold has always gone up in time and always up over time. Whats happening now as a whole has just sped things up as you've said since 2020 especially...almost simultaneous destruction of economies. While not as intelligent or have gone in depth as much in research there is simply no need time tells the tale and beyond space mining which would instantly devalue and is yet fairy tale there is to much momentum-theyve pushed it down and tried divert attention instead wheels gained traction again and again amongst the shitshow safe haven always
That's not true eh, golds price had been driven up beyond other stuff, AND, inversely other stuff has been driven up beyond gold.
From "just sped things up" to "just sped things down".
The relative is what matters, if golds price is driven up faster than other prices, then it's real (purchasing power) profit, and profit gets grabbed.
As just proved, Trump announced a series of foreign trade taxes, first thing what happened: profit grabbing on the stock markets, also on the precious metal markets including gold. Something doesn't rime eh? If gold really was a "safe haven", then people that got out stocks should have bought gold and its price should have risen.
Instead, gold was sold as easily as stocks were sold.
And then, after Trump inserted a delay period to the introduction of those taxes, "sucker" rallies.
Also a story typical in history.
And repeat: this is not about gold, but about who trades it.
Governments are a quite big trader of it, using their proxies, bullion banks, as intermediary, and they buy it only when you buy, to drive the price up so that you get less ounces. And vice versa, they sell when you sell, so that you get less dollars.
That is what those figures prove.