Silver

Whilst gold hogs the limelight, silver goes about quietly getting things done as the five year chart below (courtesy of Share Price) will attest.

Like it’s big sister, silver’s a pretty handy inflation hedge, a great investment to add a little diversity to your portfolio, and a pretty handy standalone investment to boot. There’s also a bunch of industrial demand out there too adding to the catalogue of reasons to add a little silver investment to your portfolio.

Timed well, a £10 a point silver play betwen January and April 2011 could have netted you in the region of £20,000 as silver spurted and put on in the region of 2,000 points (see chart below). Unfortunately I wasn’t part of that one. All that reward comes with plenty of risk too though as late April/early was to prove. Still, we’re back above $40 an ounce as I type and a relatively tight stop can save the sort of heartache such a drop can bring.

At Investor Trader we jump on and off the silver wagon with a silver spread bet from time to time.

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

For any wannabe silver investors out there wanting to learn more about the world of financial spread betting, check out these great, in-depth online financial spread-betting seminars from IG Index which will have you placing your first silver trade in no time.

Silver Trading Posts on Investor Trader

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