aardvark

welcome to 6 months ago.

and we're back over £1100 again - so much for that crash

ermm, are they aware of the current price?

getting very close to £1100!

certainly the rose is not cgt exempt as it isn't legal currency. i actually don't know about half sovs - i assume they are currency as the full sov is, but i don't know. does anybody else???

if you are in the uk then it must be sovereigns - they are free from capital gains tax and are also not much above spot. also, easy to sell as everybody knows what a sovereign is. as for the wider market its interesting that gold is not being hit by the stock collapse like it was in 2008.

probably go up a bit more, go down a bit and go up some more. your welcome.

from what i remember the last few years the summer drop in gold is usually finished by the end of july anyway.

i might try bairds - they say they buy bars that are not their own. i got them from a dealer in the US and he was having difficulty getting hold of any silver at the time (2008) so i said i'll take whatever he had, so he said he had these at the back of his safe. silver is silver after all i'm only selling them because i'm a bit light on cash at the moment - i have no doubt that silver will continue to go up

lets see if this works:

getting very close to £1000 again

i'll try and get a picture tonight. i guess they are ugly because there are a lot of air bubbles on the bottom of a couple of them. i don't think they were poured very well.

i'm looking to sell some of my silver - i have 80oz in 4 very ulgy poured bars - and am wondering if anybody has any thoughts as to where would be the best place to sell them? ebay is a possibility but i don't know how much interest these ugly bars will get (they don't have a makers stamp on, only the weight and purity - although i did get them from a dealer so i am 100% positive they are silver). some of the 'we buy silver' places are giving pretty poor prices. any other options? cheers

that really is a great graph pixel8r, and shows just how far away we are from a top.

gold price on the bbc news front page.

i'm sorry to hear that GF. you were the reason i started looking at gold in the first place, way back in the hpc gold thread heady days.

i agree, it really is a joke. short term the volatility is huge, long term the trend is obvious.

i was just thinking that - if ker acted on anything he has said in the last 5 years how has he got any money left!

lol - this is just getting silly.

300 tonnes is nothing - i can't see how an extra 300 tonnes coming on the market would possibly make gold drop that much, it would be snapped up pretty quickly.

$46 broken there seems no stopping silver at the moment - no idea where its going but i'm holding for the long term so just sitting back and watching with amazement!

the highest they offer is 22carat so you need to take that into account when sticking the number of grams in - clearly designed for chavs and their chavvy jewelery

i've seen these sort of bars before and they are always fake - avoid stuff like this from china.

isn't it more like $5000 using the real inflation figures and not using government ones?

over the long term i am. its rare, it has unique properties that cannot be matched by other elements, its overlooked as the poor mans platinum, its very politically sensitive with main production in russia/china, ironman uses it..... ermm, what else?, if ever hydrogen technology advances (and there is no reason why it cannot) palladium is required. i'm bullish on all the high technology metals simply because a much larger market (the chinese) is only just starting to advance to the stage where they need these metals.