
When the Stock Exchanges settle in the swaying, in the desconfianzas and the proved villains. When the financial crisis flogs to the world economies, one of the values refuges in which we can invest our savings is the gold, one of the most profitable products in epochs of crisis.
Nevertheless, if one day you have thought it also you will have wondered how to gain access to this market, that of the gold.
First of all, you must bear in mind that it is necessary to have a good knowledge of the golden market to extract the best possible yield. It is necessary to be able to choose the moment of entry and that of exit, for the risks that it bears. Bear in mind also that it does not give dividends and that on the other hand it takes a few subsequent costs of maintenance and safety that you have to assume if you want to gain access straight to him.
That's why, if your knowledge is not deep the best thing is that you put yourselves in the hands of some expert, or of some intermediary.
Nevertheless, you must know that there are several ways of investing in gold:
- Golden ingots
It is, undoubtedly, the least advisable and very little advisable for small investors. There are golden bars of different measurements that are acquired to depart, generally, from approximately 5.000 euros, and that are a 100 % pure. Nevertheless, it is a very little conventional form for the risk and little safety that it bears.
- Deposits certificates
The investor acquires the gold across a certificate that reveals it like owner of a certain quantity of gold, but he does not need to have it at home not deposited physically in a safe of a bank. With it there get cheaper the costs of maintenance and of insurances of risk. The possibility of a theft diminishes, but nevertheless, it keeps on demanding from us that to know the moment to buy and to be I commit an outrage against the oscillations of his quotation to know when to go out of the investment.
- Futures on the gold
They are negotiated on the market CBOT and be invested basing on the expectations that we have on the quotation of the gold. We can hire Futures on the Gold or Futures Mini Gold, being his principal difference the level of oscillation or fluctuation of the contracts, which is equivalent to 10 dollars for the first one and of 3,32 dollars for the second one.
Nevertheless, how it happens with the previous one, also it needs of a good knowledge of the market, of his quotations and fluctuations …
- Investment funds
It is the most comfortable and sure way of penetrating into this world of the investment in gold. There are funds that they invest in this metal and which management, therefore, is in the experts' hands that will be who buy and sell. We will have only to acquire a number of shares in these funds indexed to the gold.
At the moment, in this 2009, the investment funds in gold are the most profitable, so while the majority they are suffering losses, this type of funds takes already piled up an average revaluation in the last three months of 52,4 %.
And it is that, as we were saying at first, in epochs of crisis … we will always have left the gold.

