The 50% Gold Surprise
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I have been a traditional investor for a very long time. When I say traditional investor, I am kind of an investor who has been investing in different assets through traditional means. For example, I have been investing in gold, and it was physical gold, but I did not invest much in the jewellery because there is always a making charge, so I have been investing in 24 karat gold for a very long time. My investment in Digital Gold started this year, only when some of my friends suggested that I do that, so you can say that I'm not very much into the digital evolution when it comes to investing, and another example is that I started investing in crypto, which is also just less than one year old.
Now I enjoy this journey because I can do a lot of things digitally, and I don't need to go anywhere, which saves time and gives me more flexibility to do research and take action accordingly. And for sure, crypto is one of them, where everything is digitally possible. There was a time when I used to visit a broker's office or call them for all my stock investing because I was not feeling comfortable doing it online. However, I adopted that, but the transition took time.
With digital forms of investing, things have become easy, and because of that, I could start investing in gold, which is digital gold, and I'm happy that I started it, even though it has not a very long time, but still I'm happy with whatever it is. Today I was checking the prices for gold in the market, and I could see that a nice price appreciation has happened in the last year in gold prices. If you look at the chart in one one-year window, you'll be able to see that the price was 80K around one year back, and there has been a continuous uptrend in its price, which is currently 1.2 lakh, so a 50% growth there, and from the traditional investing perspective, this is awesome.
With the asset like gold the kind of appreciation people expect is generally 10 to 15 percent and they are happy with it but if they get appreciation like this it makes them super happy because I have not seen this kind of returns on the gold for a long time but now it seems like this is the time for the gold so people who invested on gold a long back which is probably for five years then they must be happy on their investment.
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Currently, it is hard to say what will be the next move for the gold prices, but it is really good. Since I already invest in digital gold through an automated SIP so I'm happy because I'm not required to do anything, and the app itself does everything for me. And all I do is fund the bank account. I have already discussed that app, which is called Gullak, that allows the purchase for any amount, and the entire process can be automated, so no manual intervention is required with gold or silver investing. Thank you!
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That 80k to 1.2 lakh move is wild for gold, and it shows how steady SIPs shine when trends get noisy. As an accountant, I like how Gullak automates the buy and keeps me from overthinking entries, rupee cost averaging keeps the prcie risk sane. Just dont forget storage and liquidity T&Cs on digital gold, and and maybe rebalance if gold balloons past your target share. Nice to see your discipline paying off, chai tastes better when the app does the legwork :)
Gullak made the entire process easy and good to know that you also find this all useful. Tbh I haven't checked their storage and liquidy policy but will try to go through. As far as I know they provide the flexibility to buy gold/jewellery or physical delivery whenever I want.
nice that they offer jewellery or physical delivery, that optionality is handy when prices swing. Before you go big, I'd skim the T&Cs for storage insurance, who the custodian is, audiit frequency, the buy sell spread, and any delivery or makng charges plus GST, small fees compound. If it stays clean, your automated SIP keeps doing the heavy lift :) mind sharing what delivery fees look like once you check?
Gold has been done very well the past decade. Will continue to rise imo since it reflects monetary inflation.
Digital Gold (BTC) will continue to outperforn it though. As you said. The world is going digital since it has many advantages.
Gold is on fire and the kind of returns it has given in last few years are crazy. Hope it continues the same way and hoping that BTC will also grow and reach to million dollar milestone in next few years
Digital gold investment is a huge relief, just like you said. My wife and I also bought some gold through a banking app, and the returns were fantastic. I don't know what happened to gold, but the ongoing political developments and wars around the world seem to be making it a safe haven and triggering its increase even more. Of course, I want wars to end and the world to become a peaceful place, I just hope gold prices aren't negatively affected.
Brother, you have done well through gold investing and I am sure you must be happy with this. War is never good but I think we will not see any bigger dip on gold prices. I also invested on physical gold but with digital gold I am late to start
I agree, I always thought gold was very traditional, but if the return is good, what does it matter? Physical or digital gold is still gold.
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One thing to watch out for with digital gold and silver is manipulation. You can create an unlimited supply of paper/digital gold and silver, but not so much with the real stuff...
Just look up Rehypothecation: https://kinesis.money/live-from-the-vault/rehypothecated-gold-hell/
Gold value continues to rise and would become more valuable in the coming years