Category Archives: How to Value Gold and Silver

How to Value Gold or Silver

This is the category that will help you determine how much upside there is ahead for gold and silver. Here we write about the Gold to Silver ratio, Housing to gold ratio and housing to silver ratios, and the Dow to Gold ratio.

It’s also the place to come to help determine when the time may come to sell gold and silver.

Must read articles about How to Value Gold and Silver

How do you value gold? What Price could it reach?

How Do You Value Gold | What Price Could it Reach?

Many people run into the problematic thinking that there is no way to value gold. The argument is that gold has no earnings and is of no productive use etc etc. And so therefore how can you place a value on it? You’ll see there is a methodology which simply looks at the percentage backing of the dollar at the current gold price.


Wages from Ancient Greece and NZ Housing Both Say Silver Undervalued by a Factor of 20

Wages from Ancient Greece and NZ Housing Both Say Silver Undervalued by a Factor of 20

Sounds amazing and at first glance seems quite unlikely we’d agree. But what labourers were paid in silver in ancient Greece, and New Zealand house prices when measured in silver, both show how very undervalued silver is currently. We’ll show just how eerily similar the resulting numbers are.


What is the Gold Silver Ratio_ Why is the Gold Silver Ratio at New Highs

What is the Gold Silver Ratio?

See what is the Gold / Silver ratio, and how it is used. Plus why the gold silver ratio is at new highs and and what it is telling us now.

Gold Cycles vs Property Cycles: When Will Gold Reach Peak Valuation?

Gold Cycles vs Property Cycles: When Will Gold Reach Peak Valuation?

The concept of long term cycles and how history at least rhymes, if not repeats, is really interesting topic. This article covers: Has NZ Property Peaked?; The 18 Year Real Estate Cycle; The Gold Bull Market 1970’s vs 2000 to Date; When Will Gold and Silver Reach their Peak Valuations? How Property Cycles and Gold Cycles Might Play Out in the Years to Come.


Gold Ratios Update: Dow/Gold, NZ Housing to Gold, & Gold/Silver Ratio?

Gold Ratios Update: Dow/Gold, NZ Housing to Gold, & Gold/Silver Ratio

Here’s a look at a number of gold and silver charts and gold ratios including: Shares versus Gold Ratio; Gold Silver Ratio and the Housing to Gold Ratio. They can all help determine how undervalued gold and silver may be.


Could Silver Be Worth More Than Gold?

Could Silver Be Worth More Than Gold? 

You may have heard about the increasing uses for silver in industrial applications. This is often used to argue that the price of silver will rise significantly and could equal or even overtake gold. Could this really happen?

Latest Articles

A Gold to Silver Ratio Video Update: Time to Favour Silver

This excellent video from the Youtube channel belangp gives a detailed statistical analysis of the gold to silver ratio. It’s a different take to what we have written recently here: Using the Gold Silver Ratio to Time Buying Silver. The full video (a compact 9 minutes) is shown below. But here is a summary of what is covered: […]

SILVER INVESTMENT: The Lowest Risk, Highest Return Potential vs. Stocks & Real Estate

Earlier this week, we shared a post looking at the very unusual set up in the silver futures market. That is, where the large silver speculators have their first net short position in memory. Meaning they are betting the price of silver will go lower. Now this post shows that the “commercials” (who are the […]

Where To Invest When (Almost) Everything’s in a Bubble

Currently we have most share markets around the world at record highs. The NZX (New Zealand Stock Exchange ) is no exception. As are house prices in many places at or near record highs: New Zealand, Australia and Canada just to name a few. On top of these we have record low interest rates which […]

A House Price Crash Caused By the New NZ Government Policies?

A House Price Crash Caused By The New NZ Government Policies?

The announced policies from the new Labour/NZ First/Greens Coalition have caused a lot of discussion around how the housing market here will be affected. A NZ house price crash has even been discussed overseas. Martin Armstrong has done some really interesting work on large cycles and how we humans often repeat the same mistakes. He […]

Gold to Silver Ratio Update for 2017: Time to Buy Silver Again

Time for an updated look at the Gold to Silver Ratio. Why? Because we think silver may finally be setting up to outperform gold again. We haven’t looked at the Gold to Silver Ratio in real detail since March 2016. In that post we covered:   What is the Gold to Silver Ratio? How is […]

In Gold We Trust Chartbook 2017 – 60 Slides for Gold Bulls 

We’ve just received an email from Ronni Stoerferle announcing the release of his “In Gold We Trust abbreviated chartbook for 2017”. If you didn’t have the time to read the full version of the 2017 In Gold We Trust report, then make sure you check out this shortened version…   In Gold We Trust Chartbook 2017 […]

Is Silver a Better Value than Gold Right Now?

See why the paper silver markets are still the major determinant of the price of silver, but how this might be slowly changing. You’ll learn what factors could be causing this change in the silver market and what could change silver’s value in comparison to gold. Is Silver a Better Value than Gold Right Now? […]

Gold and Silver Chart-fest

GOLD AND SILVER CHARTS

Given the big moves down in global sharemarkets and corresponding moves up in gold in recent days we thought it timely to take a look at a number of gold and silver charts. To see where we are, where we’ve been, and maybe even to have a stab at where we might be going! (Stab […]

Interesting Historical Comparisons in the Valuation of Silver

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We’ve featured Chris Duane and others who have looked at historical valuations and comparisons of silver in the past (Check out the related posts at the end for some of these). This video below covers a number of historical comparisons in the valuation of silver such as what it bought in the past or what […]

Silver and the US Dollar: Will History Rhyme?

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A Review of Relationship Between Silver and the US Dollar What can we learn from the last time silver went sideways for a number of months while the US dollar rose strongly? This is just one of the many points covered in this excellent video from Chris Duane. Here’s just some of what is covered: What […]