Your Stacking Goals - Ideal Stack Size

That's a whole lot of money to hold haha.

Joe....very interesting question and I have often wondered the same thing. I'm curious to see what other says. My short term goal is 500 ounces and long term goal is 1,000 ounces of silver. I have bought around 100 ounces over the last few months when silver was hanging around $15 per ounce. I understand it could go lower, but it could also go higher. I have no interest in fliping anything I bought so if it goes lower tomorrow I don't really care. I'm just glad I didn't buy when silver was in the $20-$40 range.

As far as what I have in my silver holdings....I have a little bit of everything. 90%, poured bars, generic sunshine bars, ASE's, pamp suisse bars, etc. I try to diversify the stack as much as possible. You never know what will be "hot" when it comes time to sell.

As far as gold goes....I'm not doing nearly as well. I have an ounce of gold and 1/4 ounce of platinum. If I buy gold, I am only going to buy pre-1900 gold. I have no desire for any newer gold. You can just buy so much more silver for your money than gold.

I plan on holding on to my metals for around 25 more years. I hope to add to the stack along the way. My 401k/TSP will always come first as far as retirement goes. As far as SHTF scenerio's go...I just don't think it will ever happen during our life time. Let me add one thing....I do believe that if along the way towards my 25 year mark silvers starts pushing $50 per ounce again then I very well may liquidate. We will have to wait and see.

Now...I am curious to see what others have to say.

My goal is 250 Ounces of Silver. I plan to obtain this goal over the next 3-5 years. I am currently sitting at around 80 ounces.. I have no GOLD nor do I own any other Precious Metal.

I now have to pay the bank to keep my money, through fees and almost negative interest rates, so I am slowly withdrawing cash and converting fiat to metal.
I'm probably close to 10% of my total net worth.

Have about ten years to retirement, should have a couple million $ by then.
Yeah, right.

I've never heard that, although "comfortable" is certainly open to interpretation and of course someone who is 20 will have more inflation to worry about that someone who is 50. The average baby boomer is lucky to have $250k saved. 1/3 have almost no savings.

Personally, when talking about investment strategy, I wouldn't touch physical silver until you've got plenty in interest bearing investments. It's kind of a finishing touch on an otherwise complete portfolio. Using it as a main investment vehicle is honestly more risky that the stock market.

I'd probably say that I'm shooting for about $25,000-50,000 in precious metals over a period of 40 years or so. No way I'm holding that all in silver, though.

220 pounds is only 4.1 million, and would be a cuble that is ~ 6.8 x 6.8 x 6.8

Yeah, I don't have a specific goal in mind for stack size, I just buy what I like. Mainly Canadian silver dollars and world bullion right now. Up to 95 oz so I'm within sight of 100 oz. Pretty sure I'll never get my stack to 4 digits!

As for a price point where I'd stop buying, I wasn't buying much with $40 silver. Been buying more lately, but a lot of the decrease in silver price has been eaten up by the fall in the Canadian dollar. What one hand giveth, the other taketh away...

I'd say about $25 for silver and $1500 for gold.




The recommended saving $$$$ amounts are so high because some people are living 30 to 40 years in retirement. Obviously if you didn't have the assets you would probably continue working if you were physically and mentally able.

I agree I've seen stats out there that say that the median baby boomer has something like $60,000 in net worth when they retire. That has to be very scary since social security in many instances is becoming increasingly inadequate to cover an average person's costs even if they made a good middle class income.