I had decided to invest in gold but I was unsure how to go about it.
So I bought several US Gold Eagles and delved into the various ways and means of investing in it. Gold bars had never been of much concern to me although I had heard or read that Uncle Sam had greatly reduced his accumulation of them at Fort Knox.

I'm an old guy with sufficient resources to do most anything which interests me. Although I've always been a physically active person, I never really never got into activities such as golf, boating or taking cruises. I was more likely to favor card games with crafty, keenly competitive players or in search of knowledge and information on a subject which aroused my curiosity.

When I found myself curious about gold as an investment, I did some reading about gold bars-- especially those hefty articles known as London Good Delivery bars by gold traders. I went to Encyclopedia Americana which says that the gold bar most commonly used in international transactions weighs about 400 troy ounces, or about 27.4 US pounds.

These bars are traded internationally by dealers on a sight unseen basis with only an exchange of paperwork to complete the exchange of ownership. The gold itself-- the object of the transaction may remain in the same secure vault storage facility unless the buyer is a bank or institution with their own storage facility. Then too, any larger volume manufacturer who processes gold into jewelry, dental work or ingots, and others.

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Around 150,000 of these 99.5% "Good Quality Bars" are made each year by a mere handful of about 55 companies worldwise. Central banks are believed to hold at least 2.5 million of these bulky items in underground, safe vaults around the world.

Smaller Gold bars between 1-oz. and 10 are usually traded as gold ingots. These are much less bulky and easier to possess and keept on hand for sell, trade or simply br part of a collection by their proud owners.

What about the "fixing of world gold prices" by those guys in London? How does that work? Is a conspiracy involved? What happens is that five members of the London Bullion Market Association get together twice daily to reach an agreement regarding the exact price of the metal at an exact time of day at which it was agreed. Traditionally, the agreed price or "fix" was stated in pounds sterling and recently also in Euros, but the exact "London Price Fix" of gold is usually converted to US dollars and circulated widely by the media, even in the UK.

It is not a sinister plot or scheme. It's simply a useful bookkeeping device which was conceived because of the nature of things in the commodity universe. The Five Members use the "fix" to establish a market price at an exact moment in time as an orderly and exact way to calculate their sales and purchase figures at the end of the business day. Many, if not a majority of professional traders find it useful to use the London "fix" as the basis of transactions with other professionals.

I groped through a maze of learning experiences regarding gold, and discovered at least six ways to invest in the precious stuff, each of which has varying degrees of upside potential versus risk. (1) Buy Gold Bullion (2) or Get into one of the gold Exchange Traded Funds or (3) Gold Derivaties, (4) Buy shares in either a top producing mining company or a junior company which is exploring for gold.

I'm doing some modest activity with some of these ideas which I will share with you in future articles. In the meantime, I like the idea of buying bullion with an English based company which reduces the cost, hassles and some of the variables of owning the precious metal instead of equity shares in a mining venture.

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Although you can't fly out to Zurich tonight to view it, this free one-gram is yours when you establish your account. It is entirely yours, to sell or trade at your sole discretion while it resides intact in its underground vault.

You see, unlike gold coins and small bars, the quality of gold must be warranted if it's going to trade on the international gold market. Swiss banks, London bullion traders and global investment funds only deal in these top-quality warranted 400 ounce gold bars. .

But if your gold is in a Good Delivery Bar too, then you can enjoy the same great prices (and the very low fees) that the professional gold trader enjoys.

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