Which Is Better To Invest In? Silver Or Gold?

I had no idea you could still get paper stock certificates. Why would anyone want to do that though?

To basically buy and sell easier with price movement. As far as I'm concerned theyre good for purely investment purposes but nothing more

silverdollar2011,

Well, I'll gladly trade you some pure nickles for any pure silver that you ever happen to run across, ounce for ounce; considering how silver is "way too mainstream" and perhaps you're expecting a major bull run on nickel that will leave silver in the rear view mirror at some point in your lifetime. Citing World War II doesn't help your argument, though, unless you're preparing for the apocalypse, when the hardness of nickel for bullets will certainly be far more highly desirable then silver... the notable exception being if your job is trapping for werewolf pelts.

Thanks for your support, GRR and thank you for your response, traevin. Nickel has so many uses that are not often thought of. The first word that comes up in my mind when I see the word nickel is military. This metal armors our M1 Abrams tanks that protects the values and freedom of our nation. Nickel is also used as a catalyst in hydrogenating vegetable oils too, it even powers our non alkaline nickel cadmium heavy duty batteries. Most importantly, it is used to make steel. Without it, we wouldn't have any steel. :D, now how important is that? I consider the value of our buddy, Ni-ck lol to be between copper and silver? Even our sewage system uses Nickel to help with the processes of desalination. Basically it's the most important non precious and hard core industrial metal that's available out there. It's hard to find too, only small weak nations have this stuff like New Caledonia. Well we have Canada by our side but just saying demand is going to explode if supply is cut short.
The image below shows all of the active nickel mines in the world, notice how there's a lot of Nickel in Russia.

I agree. Let's turn the OP statistics around, and examine what happened between two other time periods...

January 2000 to September 2011

Silver went from about $5.50 to $42
Gold went from about $300 to $1800

Both increased by a lot, but silver by a slightly higher percentage. The silver statistic would look even better if you move the date from September back to May, when silver hit its max of $49.

Silver increase: 760%
Gold increase: 630%

September 2011 to January 2012

Silver went from about $42 to $29
Gold went from about $1900 to $1600

Both decreased by a lot, but silver by a much higher percentage.

Silver decrease: 31%
Gold decrease: 16%

So it's safe to conclude that, in recent history at least, silver has been much more "volatile" - and volatility is not always a good thing. Gold is "better" in the sense of being "safer".

Don't believe the cheerleaders or the naysayers
Take the time to do your own empirical research and
come to take the actions that best fit your particular circumstances

Here are a few short Readers Digest version reasons of
why I voted the way I did and in which priority I put
each of the metals I purchase

Vote: Silver


1st PHYSICAL Silver: One of the most strategically important metals
of the 21st century,almost every electronic device today uses Silver,
Not just consumer uses which are prone to drops in economies
leading to less sales But all Major Military's are VERY dependent
on high tech equipment.

Medical: Silver has Anti-Microbial properties, bacteria dies
when it comes into contact with Silver. The amount of medical
uses for Silver is growing exponentially in recent years.

Mining: Where as in years past mines measured Silver grades in ounces per ton of ore extracted,
they are now down to measuring grams per ton of ore extracted.
along with the ever
increasing prices of diesel and electric to run the mines.

Recycling: Very little of the Silver used today gets recycled,
because the current low price of Silver and the small amounts
used in each of the millions of electronic devices or antibacterial
applications, makes it non cost effective to recover. And we are
just putting it back into the ground in landfills, and very quickly
depleting the above ground stocks.

GSR: (Gold Silver Ratio) these metals coming out of the ground in
mines roughly come out at a ratio of 10-15 oz's Silver for every
1 oz's of Gold, Yet the the paper Gold to Silver Ratio hovers
near 50 oz's of Silver to 1 oz Gold....Unsustainable

Money: Silver has been used as a store of value and for trade
for over 5000 years. It is only since the 60's for us that
there has been now precious metals in our coinage.
A very short time.

2nd PHYSICAL Gold: In the last few years Since 2007-2008 every country and Central Bank on the
Planet has made a major shift in their actions concerning Gold
They have been sellers of Gold for decades and now there is a race
going on to accumulate as much as they can. (Those at the top know
something is coming)
Has been used as a store of value and for trade
for over 5000 years

And thank you for bringing this up silverdollar2011
3rd PHYSICAL Nickel
Another very important strategic metal. for all of the
reasons cited above in previous posts.
And the only (mostly) pure metal
coin that can be had for face value
Not one nickel has left my house in quite some time


Paper Assets: Not a Chance

With the recent events of MF Global and PFG Best. Stealing customers
segregated accounts and not one person has gone to jail.
and the 7th district court of appeals recent
decision that when a person hands their money over to a bank it is no
longer theirs, it is the banks property
We have turned a corner in the world of ANY Paper assets
This the first one I could find for reference, There are many more
articles out there on the the subject below



http://www.beaconequity.com/now-ban...-2012-08-15/

This has been fun

Terry

For some reason I read that as stocks for silver, I agree with Edb and just forget what I said in my last post.

The most important thing really is to just keep an eye on everything. If you have a substantial investment just get out when it looks like its going to be another MF Global. Better to take a small loss than risk it all. Other times you can gamble itll recover if the investment is small and could bring back a great reward. But investing is unique to each individuals situation

silverdollar2011: Nickel is scarce? Sorry, but come to Canada or Australia where it is abundant. It's all about location. We're knee-deep in nickel.