southerncross said:
At the moment silver has gained 19.27% over the last 12 months, 151 + % over five years . Whats the p.a return on cash deposits ?
But it isn't quite that simple is it ... if you had paper silver then yes, you could get 19.27% more bread, fuel and services then when you started (simply sell it back on the market) BUT if you bought the physical chances are whether silver was 31 or 34 what you paid for your coin would be no different. which means your gain is net of zero. Go to the coin shop tomorrow after this massive tank and see if there is much difference in what they charge for the coin or the bar.
If your talking paper silver then yeh, those gains and looses are solid and realised cause you buy and sell at spot. In a term deposit or a savings deposit like ING every $100, will return you $6 that you can use to buy a loaf of bread or fuel which is instantly accessible, imagine all you had was silver and you wanted bread, what would you do ? sell it to the bullion dealer for a loss, or sell it on silverstackers and starve till you sold it ?!?
Hell even paper silver of SLV you could have sold for that 19.27% gain between the high and the low. In my honest opinion investing in physical (GOLD & SILVER) will preserve your wealth in times of complete collapse(disaster) which sad to say could be around the corner but unless that happens its quite an illiquid investment cause you can't make the small gains cause of the killer spreads the bullion store charges you. Only Caveat is if you know a good place to get the bullion CHEAP & close to spot ...