Gold Investing

Gold Investment is an old age tactic of putting your money to grow and as insurance for future unseen dangers. It is a liquid and tangible investment. There are so many motives behind gold investment. Some invest in the hope of future increment in the value, some because they love the yellow metal, some other for price speculation and so on.

It can be a trading item, store of value, investment, insurance and others. You have the options of investing in gold, gold stock, gold bullion, gold certificates, options, forward contracts, gold linked notes and such other gold related options. Trading gold has also been an old established business. Trading may be like other currencies for future appreciation in the value.

Speculation is the main cause for trading. There may be different types of gold investors like people who store gold, people who include in their portfolio, banks who keep part of their deposit in gold, financial institutions, gold bugs, speculator, petroleum speculator, portfolio hedger etc. There are several ways of investing in gold. Bars, certificates, coins, account, exchange traded funds, mining companies, derivatives etc. are some ways for gold investment.

Gold may be included in your investment portfolio. Gold investment should be a part of your portfolio not the whole portfolio. You can invest in gold but with some research and knowledge. Investing is interesting but may be destructive for your investments. Like stock investing, in gold investing also you should do research and fundamental and technical analysis.