Here’s why we (almost) always recommend buying bullion coins like Canadian silver and gold maples or bars. But you’ll also learn when there could be an exception to this rule… Bullion Coins vs Collectible Coins A not uncommon question when thinking about buying silver is should I buy numismatic or collectible coins instead of your […]
Category Archives: New Zealand Articles
This category includes all the articles on gold, silver and related topics written by Gold Survival Guide, often with a New Zealand focus.
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Learn all about the gold and silver commitment of traders (COT) report and how understanding it can help determine when to buy gold and silver. This post covers: What is the Commitment of Traders (COT) Report? The Current Positions in the Commitment of Traders Report for Gold and for Silver What is a “Short Squeeze”? What […]
Where Are We in the Psychology of the Silver Market Cycle? This article looks at the phases of investor psychology in market cycles. Then compares these phases to the silver market cycle over the past 14 years or so, to see where the silver market is currently. Therefore helping to indicate where silver is going […]
Whether you’re an old hand at the matters of gold, silver and what is money, or a real newbie, you’ll probably have something in common with a frustrated reader. He admitted that all the conflicting information about how the world monetary system works was “doing [his] head in!”. Here is his email and below it […]
Covid responses have seen the government encroaching more and more into everyday life, both here and across the planet. As a result we have more people getting concerned about the potential for gold confiscation. In various gold and silver newsletters we read, we’ve seen a few queries on the topic of confiscation of gold in […]
We’ve had the odd query from other New Zealanders asking, “how much gold does the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) actually have?”. Our guess is people are probably asking because since the financial crisis net gold purchases by global central banks have switched from negative (i.e. they were selling), to positive (i.e. they are […]
Could Silver Be Worth More Than Gold? You may have heard about the increasing uses for silver in industrial applications. The rise in industrial use is often used to argue that the price of silver will rise significantly. Thus equaling or even overtaking gold. But could this really happen? A reader posed just such a […]
We’ve previously looked at all the reasons we could think of as to why to buy gold. So it seems only fair that we should give “poor mans gold” the same treatment and so today we look at the question – “Why buy silver?”… Reasons to Buy Silver? Same as the Reasons to Buy Gold […]
“Haven’t gold prices gone up quite a lot in the last year or so? So why buy gold now? Isn’t it too late to buy?” That’s one of the common responses we get when we mention we are involved in selling gold and silver bullion. Unlike a number of years ago the average guy or […]
Gold and silver technical analysis can be a very large and confusing subject. Technical analysis can seem far too difficult to the new gold and silver buyer. So many people just ignore the topic altogether. But it needn’t be this complex. We’ve written this Gold and Silver Technical Analysis Ultimate Beginners Guide to simplify this […]