Please can you advise me if MrPaulson has any alert/investment service for primarily his gold fund recommendations or any other services to take advantage of future commodity prices.
Thank you.

It launched in March 2010 (at $10.00) and has gone almost straight up to the $12.50 area. One article says it is selling at a 30% premium to NAV. Another article says it maintains a 1:1 ratio meaning that every dollar invested is backed by a dollar of physical gold.

Yet another article says investors in PHYS can choose to take delivery of PHYSical gold bullion. Long term gain tax treatment is supposed to be better than ETFs, too.

Although I mostly trust the various source articles, and I know the Sprott name to be trustworthy, verifying the details may require a long slog through SEC filings. Yahoo! Finance and other sites don't offer much research detail.

So what's an ETV? I'm guessing it's an Exchange Traded Vehicle as opposed to a "typical" fund if there is such a thing. It used to be open-end and closed-end funds. Other kinds of funds keep popping up.

Hedge funds like Paulson's only want the big money. Forget Paulson and buy a few gold coins.

India's entry is different and signals confirmation that physical gold has true value rather than desparate manipulative opportunity.

Another example of this point is from over a year ago when gold price was tilting down when the fundamental reasons for it increasing were abundant.
Turned out that hedge funds were selling their gold in desperate attempts to raise cash to save themselves and keep head above water, not because the value of gold was actually depressed.

So understanding WHY that price drop happened confirmed that that was an excellent buying opportunity

Avoid taxes by buying/selling gold and silver on eBay, at pawn shops, at antique stores. It's not that hard to avoid the IRS. Your purchases of gold are small potatoes. The IRS doesn't really care. Your sales of gold are unremarkable to the IRS, too. In fact, exchanging money for another form of money does not constitute a taxable event. Selling gold is no different than asking a bank to exchange $20 for two ten$ notes. Exchanging money for money isn't taxable. Exchanging gold for money (paper) will be no different. The IRS is not your problem.

Don't buy gold stocks. Find an ETF or a closed end fund like GGN. Mining stocks are bad for your health, both mental and physical. Owning gold coins will feel much better. I know. I speak from experience.

Lastly, gold isn't really an investment. It's a means of capital preservation.

To everyone: put Jim Sinclair on your radar… jsmineset.com

SILVER IS THE WAY…More bullish fundamentals than all else!!
DO ya DD

I also wish someone would post Paulsons new fund name or link.

Anyone familiar with Constitution Mining CMIN which is going to dredge the alluvial sands at the mouths of two rivers which have been carrying gold out of the Andes Mtns in Peru for millions of years and depositing gold in the plains where the river slows down?

Have you read the environmental studies?

The environment and the people have been taken into account with every step of this project.

Do you think it is more acceptable that individual miners mine old mines using mercury to their own peril and the peril of others and the environment rather a professional company with a plan that has been approved by the government because it with not hurt the environment?

The cyanide is in an enclosed system and will not be released into the river or anywhere else.

To get on the "their destroying our environment" bandwagon without a true understanding of exactly what is going to happen and how it will positively impact the people in the area is irresponsible.

For those of us of modest means, it feels like it's expensive to buy gold near $1100/oz. Even if you can only afford to buy a few 1/10 ounce coins, doing so will protect the purchasing power you have. Don't let TropicalMonkey's gold chart scare you. If the chart accounted for US$ monetary debasement (inflation), today's gold would be priced at least two or three times higher. Maybe more.

I woke up years ago. From 2001-2002 I accumlated gold coins and over 1000 oz. of silver. Since then, gold more than tripled and silver more than doubled. As expensive as both metals seem today, doubling and tripling can happen again. The article above gives solid reasons for precious metal's upside.

Mr. Longbottom: There is a long history of central banks selling gold at bottoms. Great Britain, Germany, and others. Central bank selling has mostly been a signal to buy gold. India's recent 200-ton gold purchase is a countertrend signal that gold is more important than ever. However, don't forget that these sales and buys never tap market gold. They just shift pallets of gold from one vault to another. There has never been a direct affect on the open gold market. It's always indirect.

>> If interest rates go up, what happens to the price of gold?

It still goes up. Higher interest rates are a recognition of inflation, perhaps even a desperate move to boost investor interest in a currency. Ignore currency trades. Gold is the ultimate currency. Silver is pretty good, too. I remember in the early 1980's a huge $3.00 hamburger could be had for a silver dime.

So buy some gold or silver. You can always convert it to paper.

And this 'competitive devaluation' you speak of; how far can interest rates FALL now?

If interest rates go up, what happens to the price of gold?

And the generally held theory of superstar manager and latest fad investment always makes a success, am I right or AM I RIGHT??

As I said, pathetic hack job of some light reading you did online which was probably while watching daytime soaps.

And here is one more.. for Silver
http://silverprice.org/charts/history/silver_all_data_o_usd.png

You know what ? The crash in Gold price will make all Indian gods and their safe keepers poor among others! This monkey is from India by the way!

Still it might touch $1400 before the next historic crash.

Where would the industry be if not for junior exploration? Of course they're speculative because they're exploring for the next big finds which will then be bought up by the senior producers. We all know what happens to stock prices in a takeover/buyout.

How about gpr or edr or gbg or ng or svm or gdxj?