If all of Europe cuts spending and starts to compete to see which country can impose the deepest austerity programs, the Euro zone will shrivel and die. The leaders are each now pandering to the media by trying to look the toughest and hardest ...

Yes I have. But that adds to the costs of holding your gold.

There was a saying that a mans home is his castle. then the sub-prime crisis hit and the man found out that his castle was, and always had been, owned by the bank.

Yes, the silver is lagging behind gold today

I agree 100%. i have read that some traders at banks etc get thrown in the deep end with what they think are real accounts but they are only dummy accounts. If they handle the stress they stay.

It is easy to roll over the contacts into the next contact period. No need to take delivery or pay out the contract at all.

Finish your papers and then come back to forex. The Forex will still be here when you have finished.

I totally agree with this. Demo trading is not real. And pretending that demo trading is real doesn't work. Unless it is real money, its not real.

There is the possibility of the gold ingots being stolen from your house. I think that futures contracts is a much safer way to hold my gold and silver assets instead of having them sitting in my house.

Hello XTrade. I am new here but have been trading gold and silver for a while. this has been a good thread to read. you have put some good work in here. I will try to be a constructive and helpful poster here

Why would you want to buy physical gold and silver with no leverage? Why not just buy a futures contact and keep it long term. Roll over contract a week before expiry. A lot easier.

Trading without stoplosses means that you need to have a perfectly run system with no surprises. Noobies trading without stoplosses is heading for disaster