Should You Use Leverage With Precious Metals And Mining Stocks?

Jon Economy

While I will maintain, until proven wrong by the test of time, that Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies are nothing more than a temporary fad, investing with a long term outlook (20-30 years) gives the investor the best probability of generating life-style changing wealth.
William Powers, of MiningStockEducation.com, invited onto his podcast to discuss using leverage in precious metals and mining stock investing. We discuss greed/fear, using margin with mining stocks, volatility, options, futures and the leveraged ETFs.
The problem for most investors, and the reason many have not made a lot of money – or might have lost money – in the precious metals sector is the inability to invest with a long term perspective. Since 2001, gold has outperformed every asset class. The mining stocks, in general as measured using the HUI index, have outperformed the Dow/Naz since 2001.


This post was published at Investment Research Dynamics on August 21, 2017.