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Not to be contrarian, but pleade don’t say gold is almost guaranteed to go up… There have been times in the 1900’s where people losot in gold massively and didn’t recover for decades.

It HAS been a good investment in the last while, but it may have been just luck.

Plus, at the price it’s at now… I kind of fear buying it.

I looked into it as well but in the end went with a Gov Bond ETF instead.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Lately the s&p etfs have been beating gold. So like, it’s not a terrible investment, just there are better ones out there

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

please don’t say gold is almost guaranteed to go up…

I mean, in so far as inflation is almost guaranteed to occur in a productive economy, gold is almost guaranteed to go up over the long term.

A better question might be “Is an investment in gold going to outperform another asset class?”

I looked into it as well but in the end went with a Gov Bond ETF instead.

That’s been the gambit with gold for a while. Point to a short term up-cycle in price and insist that’s a long term ROI you can count on.

But when you look at the actual price history

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there are long periods when the price is either flat or negative. Risk of holding gold relative to, say, the S&P or even basic Treasuries can get pretty high, unless you’re very confident we’re in one of those rare '04-'11 sustained price rises.

Even as a hedge against short term downturns, it kinda sucks. If you look at the big historical recessions - '81, '90, '01, '08, '20 - the price of gold had typically already jumped ('01 being a notable exception) and subsequent years were fairly flat.

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- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  You using XAU or something else?
  
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