If You Have 10,000.00$ To Spend....

could the copper choice be explained?

$ 5:3 Silver to gold.

Which is

$6250 in Ag : $3750 in Au

At

$27.33/oz Ag : $1585/oz Au

would be

229/ozt Ag : 2.35/ozt Au

totaling $9983.32 which leaves you enough for gas / food for the outing.

In December 2008 copper was ~$1.25/lbs. In December of 2010 it peaked at ~$4.50/lbs.

$10,000 would have turned into over $40,000 in 2 years.

The same money invested in gold at that time period of 2 years would have turned into ~$19,000, for comparison.

Today, I think gold is close to, or is at a plateau of value for a while. In my opinion you have to be careful when holding "expensive" stocks, like gold and Microsoft, because unless something profound and dramatic happens to make them go up, they are more likely to take a big hit, then make you any real profit.

Here's a mixed analogy for you:

A stock like Gold is big, heavy and slow moving, unless it's drops, then it's quick. Dropping it causes big damages. It's hard to put Humpty back up on the wall.
When a stock is light-weight and agile like copper, you will have bigger swings,(ups and down), they can also recover from a drop much better and faster.

Not to sound cliche, but "buy low, sell high"
You want the big swings, and to be on the right side(Left hand side) of those upwardly moving swings.

In my opinion, it's not a good idea to buy Gold when it's "high", unless you just want to park money and are absolutely confident it's not going to drop 20% or 40%, if it does, you will have a long wait ahead of you if you want it to recover, which could take years.

Copper on the other hand swings up and down 20% or 40% in a matter of months or weeks. If you goof, you can recover, and still make profits again much faster then with gold.

So yes, I can almost promise you that 10K in copper will make you more then 10K in gold over the next 1,3,5,10,20years etc.
But alas I am not a Crystal Ball, just a geek on a computer who really can't promise you anything. :)

Another thing that needs to be considered is the effect of a global economy when it comes to "gold are prices high when the dollar is down"
There may be some saturation of gold on the market in tough times, perhaps making Gold a little less valuable in bad times then it was in previous times.

It's the old "whoda thunkit" or "why didn't I think of that".

The stocks that make people the most money over the coarse of history, are the ones that most people overlook.

You don't need to physically by and hold the copper, and as far as selling copper, that's what the stock market is for, just a phone call away, or a few clicks of a mouse.

If you do want physical copper, it does not take up much room. I bet you use more space storing junk and Xmas decorations. You could easily fit it in a closet, or a few square feet in corner of your garage. I bet it would fit in your trunk if you do the math. It's only around 5 cubic feet, you could put it anywhere that would take the weight.

Or, if you have physical copper, you can call an armored truck, would take them 10-15 minutes to load it and their gone.

By the nature of it's weight, it is more secure for home storage. Somebody can run off with your gold and silver very easily, but they can't carry 2500lbs of copper.
An average pickup truck can't carry that much copper. You need at least a 1-ton to carry that weight properly, or take 2 or 3 trips.