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Money and Markets: Investing Insights

Going for the Gold

Kevin Kerr | Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7:30 am

Kevin Kerr

The rising price of gold is hardly breaking news; after all it’s been on a parabolic climb for the last several years. However, even though it’s had a meteoric rise, I think we have barely seen the start of just how high the yellow metal will go.

Everyone from individual investors to central banks are snapping up gold hand over fist. And $2,000 may just be a rest stop before the real parabolic move higher.

Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt

On December 1, 2009, gold closed at $1,197. The same day, I spoke with  Larry Kudlow of CNBC about why gold is going to $2,000.
On December 1, 2009, gold closed at $1,197. The same day, I spoke with Larry Kudlow of CNBC about why gold is going to $2,000.

Now this bullish claim is not new coming from me. I’ve been saying this for well over 8 years and battling it out with gold bears on TV and radio, at seminars around the world, in print, and elsewhere, since gold was trading around $450.

The same arguments I have heard over the last 10 years against buying gold, I’m still hearing today. The denial is really sad! You can hardly blame some of these analysts and economists though. Even the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, when asked by Senator Ron Paul if he thought gold is money, Mr. Bernanke basically said “No.”

Now with gold close to hitting the $2,000 mark, wouldn’t it be nice to go back in time and be able to buy it at $1,200? Sure, it would! But I think that in a few years when gold is at $4,000, people will be saying the same thing about $2,000. The fact is that adjusted for inflation we need to see gold at about $2,200.

Back to Bullion

Let’s face it, nothing has changed on the fundamental front for the U.S. dollar. And the global economy is actually more in tatters now than it was when gold moved from $450 to $1,900, and I expect things to get worse.

We still have high unemployment, near-zero interest rates, endless printing of fiat currency by the Fed, and a debt-to-GDP ratio that is mind boggling! Now add in what looks to be the disintegration of the euro, and possibly the end of the entire European Union, and you have all of the elements in place to see gold prices really explode to the upside.

But in my opinion, one factor stands head and shoulders above the rest, and that’s central bank buying.

European central banks have once again become net buyers of gold for the first time in more than twenty years, which is a very clear indicator of how uncertain things are in the currency and debt markets right now.

Countries such as Mexico, Russia, South Korea, and Thailand have made sizable purchases this year. The reason is clear why these countries are taking this action: They want to reduce their exposure to the dollar. Worldwide, central banks are set to buy more gold this year than at any time since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system four decades ago, which by the way was the last time the value of the dollar was linked to gold.

So far, on a relative basis, the purchases by central banks are small when compared to the size of the global gold market overall. That in turn, is very bullish to me. This level of buying is a complete U-turn for most of these central banks, especially in Europe, who sold gold heavily.

Even the small increase we have seen in central bank buying has helped lift the price of gold by more than 25 percent so far this year, hitting a high of $1,900 on 9/5/11.

For years I've been encouraging people to have gold in their portfolios.
For years I’ve been encouraging people to have gold in their portfolios.

Will there be corrections in gold, certainly. Volatility in gold, and silver for that matter, remains very, very high. The exchanges have tried repeatedly to raise margins in an effort to slow buying, but it’s been about as effective as butter stopping a hot knife.

So is it too late to get in on the gold rush? Not at all!

Golden Opportunities

There are many good ways to invest in gold, including: Gold coins, bullion, key mining shares, and options on futures. Diversification and risk management are key. One of my favorite vehicles for investing in gold is key gold ETFs.

And one that I really like is Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX).

I also like the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD). And while I like the GDX and GLD ETFs, I like trading options on them even more! Buying options on ETFs provides greater leverage and one big bonus, limited risk.

In fact my Master Trader readers grabbed 54.2 percent profits on the first half of a January GLD option position in just 12 days and then another 196.7 percent in just 17 days, for a combined profit of 125.5 percent in just 17 days.

Now Master Trader readers have a new GDX option position to benefit from the next leg up in gold, which I expect by year’s end. I can’t tell you what the specific trade is, but would love to have you join us so I can!

Bottom line is that gold has had an incredible run higher over the last few years. But that could simply be a dress rehearsal for the real show that’s about to begin. As central banks and individuals shift out of fiat currency, one of the few safe harbors is gold. It’s that simple.

So don’t be intimidated by the gold bear; take action and hedge your portfolio against the falling dollar and euro using limited risk strategies like I have discussed.

Yours for resource profits,

Kevin Kerr

Kevin Kerr is a considered one of the best resources on how to trade commodities, futures, and options for the new and advanced resources trader alike. He is co-editor of Global Resource Hunter, a monthly newsletter designed to help you ride the commodity supercycle — an ongoing surge in price of food, energy, metals and more.

Kevin is also the editor of Master Trader, a service meant to use ETF options for gains in any major asset class in the world — stocks, precious metals, commodities, bonds and even foreign currencies — no matter what event or trend is happening in the world!

{ 4 comments }

jrj Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 11:39 am

Why do people,who should know better,like the author of this article,keep using phony govt inflation statistics to say that gold,adjusted for inflation since 1980, should be at $2200.If you really have any “feel” for what inflation is doing,you would know that $2200 is NOT the correct,inflation adjusted,price that gold would need to be at today.More like $3,000 to $3,500.Check the Shadow Stats website,where he uses the same methods used to measure inflation,as the govt used in 1980.Inflation is much higher than govt will admit.Govt has every incentive to issue phony,low inflation statistics.If govt were to admit the real inflation rate,the Fed couldn’t get away with keeping interest rates so low and devaluing the currency,govt would have to give more to social security beneficiaries and investors wouldn’t keep so much of their savings in losers,like govt fiat and debt.

Jan Viljoen Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 3:05 am

During the 2008 crisis, the price of gold fell some 30% and the US$ appreciated to many other currencies to a similar ratio. Is something similar not likely to happen now that the euro is in crisis?

Tonto Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 11:25 am

After the 1987 crash, Greenspan and his pals did everything they could to short gold. It reached just over US$500/Oz. It worked and people believed that gold was a barbaric relic. In 1993 George Soros and his buddy, Sir James Goldsmith managed to hype the gold price upto over US$400/Oz. They took their profits and the price fell. Gordon Brown sold 1/2 of the UK’s gold reserves at a firesale price about 1o years ago. It was under US$300/Oz, His boss, Tony Blair said that this was merely a portfolio adjustment.

Just look at where gold is now. This drop of about US$150/Oz, in my humble opinion is only temporary.

Where I live, in South Africa, we have seen our local currency, the Rand, drop by more than 10% in the past two weeks. People are running scared and want liquidity above anything else.

I wonder when it will all end and a measure of sanity will return.

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