Category Archives: When to Buy Gold and Silver

When to Buy Gold or Silver

Timing is helpful in ensuring you get the best price when buying gold and silver. This category covers topics such as seasonality and how this affects the gold price. Along with some guides on technical analysis (simple indicators on gold and silver charts to help you choose better times to buy), along with understanding the relationship between the NZ Dollar, US Dollar and gold and silver.

This is also the place where you’ll also find us writing about what we think the prices of both precious metals may do.

If you’d like more guidance on picking lower risk times to buy, then you should definitely get free access to our gold and silver daily price alert email service.

Must read articles about When to Buy Gold and Silver

When to Buy Gold or Silver: The Ultimate Guide

When to Buy Gold or Silver: The Ultimate Guide

Learn about fundamental reasons for buying such as how the economy is doing, the risk of financial panics or currency devaluations. But also technical reasons or rather just purely timing when to buy gold or silver depending on the price. Plus finally whether to choose to buy gold over silver or vice versa.


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

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

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? And how property cycles and gold cycles might play out in the years to come. 


Gold and Silver Technical Analysis: The Ultimate Beginners Guide

Gold and Silver Technical Analysis: The Ultimate Beginners Guide

Once you’ve read this ultimate guide here’s what you’ll know: What is technical analysis? What are the benefits of technical analysis in gold and silver? Is technical analysis any use in manipulated markets? The different types of charts available and where to get them for free. Plus 6 different types of technical indicators for use in gold and silver analysis.

When to Buy Gold or Silver

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 8 years or so, to see where the silver market is currently. Therefore helping to indicate where silver is going from here and aiding with deciding when to buy silver…


The Yield Curve Recession Predictor: Impact on Gold?


The Yield Curve Recession Predictor: Impact on Gold?

The best predictor of a recession we have seen is the yield curve. While the yield curve may sound like something only economists would know about and discuss, it’s actually a surprisingly simple measure. In this post we’ll cover how the yield curve predicts recessions, how far away the next one may be and how the yield curve impacts gold.


Why You Should Ignore the USD Gold Price When Buying in New Zealand

Interest Rates and Gold: If Interest Rates Rise What Happens to Gold?

This post will help you if you’re worried about the impact of rising interests rates on gold. It covers: A common misconception about gold and rising interest rates; Rising interest rates in the 1970’s and the effect on gold; How the last 6 Federal Reserve Interest rate hikes have impacted the gold price; What might the future hold for interest rates and gold?

Latest Articles

Gold & Silver in NZ Dollars: 2017 in Review & Our Punts for 2018

2017 was all about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Although most financial assets also went up. Such as shares both globally and here in New Zealand. Here and in many parts of the world property also rose during 2017. This scenario, where all assets are rising, is generally seen as not being that favourable to financial insurance […]

Are You Ready For The Next Rally?

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been talking about how gold and silver have bottomed in December for the past few years (see: Cryptocurrencies the Opposite Phase to Silver?). Plus how in 6 of the last 7 years buying gold at the end of one year saw higher prices by the end of the following year […]

Will the New Zealand Dollar Continue to Fall?

Back on the 1st November we asked the question: “Is the New Zealand Dollar Now in a Longer Term Downtrend?” Let’s revisit what we said then. Then we’ll consider will the New Zealand dollar continue to fall? Is the NZ Dollar Now in a Longer Term Downtrend? As noted already the NZ Dollar is still oversold. […]

Silver Market Update

Clive Maud outlines how silver may have a bit of downside in the short term ahead yet. But is actually playing out a very bullish head-and-shoulders bottom pattern. Perhaps we may not be too off the point where silver once again out performs gold as we discussed last week. So any pull back from here […]

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 […]

How to Stay Up to Date on Gold & Silver News and Deals

Get Browser Push Notifications and Stay Up to Date on Gold & Silver Research & Deals Odds are you may not have any idea what a “push notification” is! But you may get push notifications currently if you use the likes of Facebook. When you have a web browser open on your computer these pop […]

What Does Short Covering Mean for the Price of Silver?

In last weeks feature article, NZD Silver Bottom is Here – Technical and Sentiment Analysis,  one topic we touched on was how the silver futures Commitment of Traders (COT) report data was turning bullish. “Last month speculative traders had become incredibly bullish on silver especially. But the silver sell off has caused many to reverse […]

NZD Silver Bottom is Here – Technical and Sentiment Analysis

Yep we’re going to say it. Silver in NZ dollars looks to have bottomed. We’ll show you why from a technical and sentiment perspective a NZD silver bottom looks likely to us. Plus why there could be some hefty moves for silver ahead. NZD Silver Technicals To us silver in New Zealand Dollars or even for […]

Chartist: Silver About to Bottom? Doesn’t Matter if You’re Buying in NZ Dollars

Charting “guru” Chris Kimble this week had a long term silver chart that posits the theory that silver is very close to having bottomed out. This chart and his discussion refers to silver in US Dollars. Afterwards we’ll have a longer term NZD silver chart for you with our thoughts too. Here’s Chris: Silver; Bottoming […]

Gold & Silver in NZ Dollars: 2016 in Review & Our Guess For 2017

2016 was an eventful year with the “surprise” results of Brexit and the US presidential elections. So with 2016’s end it’s time for our review of gold and silver performance in NZ Dollars during the calendar year. Plus a look back at our predictions from a year ago as well. After all there is no […]