Buying Gold & Gold Investing
Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009 Aug 03, 2009 - 02:44 AM GMTBuying Gold is picking up. The question is will Gold take out the $1,000 price range this time? Gold investing has been quiet recently. There seems no interest in the news since Gold fell off earlier in the summer. Buying Gold has fallen off. Now since buying Gold has fallen off…will Gold take out $1,000 this time since no one expects it to?
Not to play on words there is a big difference between those who were buying gold this year…and those so called gold investing. With Gold investing, they bought gold because they thought or were scared( without any method) that gold would take out $1,000. Those that were buying gold relied on a method or system ( trend following). They purchased gold prior to the big run up in June…and exited…some with a profit and some with a small loss.
As we are trend following commodity trading advisors we know we do not know the future. We received a signal to purchase gold on 7.20.09 at a price of 945. Our initial risk was to 927. As you can see this …as in all of our trades was a low risk. The key in trend following is put on every trade. We can not choose and pick which trades we will take. We must be consistent. It will interesting if the gold market takes off.
The effect on all commodities could be fascinating. We see the weakness currently in the US dollar as a back drop. Maybe inflation (which no one expects) might become present due to debt deflation. Time will tell if the Gold Market takes off. As a trend follower, we realize that any trade means nothing. We take lots of small risk trades, the majority do not work. This does not phase us. We know that eventually we will stumble into a nice profitable trade because we are making ourselves available.
The key here is not to predict but trade a diverse basket in the commodity markets & forex markets and make small low risk bets when we receive our signals.
Andrew Abraham
www.myinvestorsplace.com
Andrew Abraham has been in the financial arena since 1990. He is a commodity trading ddvisor and co manager of a Commodity Pool. Since 1993 Andrew has been a proponent of quantitative mechanical trading programs. Andrew's major concern is not only total return on investment but rather the amount of risk that one would have to tolerate in order to achieve returns He focuses on developing quant models that encompass strict risk adherence and correlation. He has been a speaker at conferences as well as an author of numerous articles. Andrew has spent years researching ideas that have the potential to outperform indices as well as maintain fewer draw downs.
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