Gold: Everyone’s An Expert

• The Trump presidency and the markets.
• The debt problem.
• Gold: Where are we now?

I try not to use every reason in the book to buy gold like those who call for a dollar crash every year or claiming the inclusion of China into the SDRs will be the death of the dollar.

My 31-year career has been about enlightening myself, and with my own hard work, believe I have a good grasp on the economy and markets, and with this expertise, I am simply helping others, which is why I write books.

Learning how to profit doesn’t come without taking a few punches. An article you read somewhere that tells you an opinion has to be weighed with many other opinions, and then you yourself have to judge that information and pull the trigger on a trade or investment. One could toss a coin and do better than the “professionals,” meaning the mutual fund and hedge fund managers who can’t even beat the markets. This is why many investors would be better off with an index fund. But buying index funds that move with the market have no downside protection either as revealed during the last market crash when they got hit hard too.

I have seen an enormous amount of gold articles come through the last month as now everyone thinks they are an expert in calling gold higher, and will point back and tell you they “were right.” Since I started my Illusions of Wealth trading service… Read more at Seeking Alpha.