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 Posted 05/18/2011  11:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Ive been buying Indium bars on ebay,I believe these will increase in value!


Lay enuf money on the table, and you can buy anything, legal or otherwise.

If you can buy indium at "spot", that sounds like a great investment, but who's making the market? If its price triples, but the only buyer who will deal with you will only pay 25%, you'll still lose money.

In order to make money, you not only need for the price to go up, but you needsomeone making a market (buying and selling any quantity. Further, the bid/ask spread has to be small enough that any price rise isn't eaten by the spread.
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 Posted 05/18/2011  11:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Two hundred years ago, the advice would have been, "Platinum!".


I forget the dates, but aluminum used to bring PM prices, more than gold, IIRC.
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 Posted 05/18/2011  11:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add christian_cyclist to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, that is true! The top of the Washington Monument is topped with pure aluminum. I forget all the history but it was really hard to get pure aluminum because nobody knew of the chemical process required. I think it was made of pure aluminum ore or something like thay. Once the chemical process was discovered aluminum became super easy to get and cheap. Wikipedia has some good info on it.

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 Posted 05/19/2011  01:41 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ed_B to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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I forget the dates, but aluminum used to bring PM prices, more than gold, IIRC.

Yes, that is true. I remember reading about one of the kings of France setting a table for many guests where the highest ranking of them ate off of Al plates while the lesser of them ate off of Au plates. That was probably sometime in the early 1700s. The electrolytic process for Al production now produces many tons of Al metal each day and at relatively low cost, so in spite of its unusual physical properties, it is a cheap metal these days.
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