Gold

Ahhh gold, let me count the ways…..no, better still let me show me you (in this five year gold chart our friends at Share Price prepared earlier):

As an inflation hedge, as a key ingredient in a divirsified portfolio, heck as a a dang, pretty-damn-good standalone investment, few can argue gold doesn’t put forward a fairly decent case.

At Investor Trader we jump on and off the gold wagon with a gold spread bet quite a bit.

As it stands we’ve got the following gold spreads in play this very minute.

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Gold Trading Posts on Investor Trader

• Berkeley Mineral Resources and Gold With our share portfolio in free-fall there's not much good news coming out of Investor Trader for the moment. That is unless you consider Investor Trader's new colour scheme news-worthy? I had hope for Berkeley Mineral Resources (BMR.L) when I fleetin...
• A Great Week For Gold Fuelled by the possibility that the US may soon default on its debt - to avoid default, US politicians have to agree to raise the country's debt limit by 2nd August 2011 - coupled with the imminent announcement of the European Banking Authority's stress t...
• Buys and Sells and Gold Lots going on, but I'm heading off - on holidays that is. A midsummer week of island-hopping in Scandinavia. Now if that sun would just re-appear. I'm usually not one to scare too easily but today - with a week away from the keyboard coming up and the ...
• A Golden Update It's been a bit of a rocky road for our gold play over the past few weeks since we got on board in late April at just a notch above $1,500 an ounce. The one month chart (below - courtesy of SharePrice.co.uk) shows the spot price for gold rocketed to over ...
• Buying Gold So I'm up and running with my first financial spread bet for a while. The ghosts of financial spread betting failures past have been laid to rest with a renewed bout of reading and I'm ready to make my fortune (sic) trading commodities. I popped 100 qu...