More and more individual and institutional investors are recognizing the investment opportunities and growing profit potential in metals. Written by an investment expert, this book examines metals investment from the history of metals as investment vehicles, to the risks and rewards of investing in metals in today's markets. It covers every method of investing in metals - coins, bullion, futures, options, stocks, bonds and funds - their role in an overall investment plan, how to evaluate which metals are right for you, and the potential problems and limitations of metals investing.
While stocks, bonds, and other investments come and go, interest in metals?precious and otherwise?persists. What is it that makes them so attractive? What are the premier metals investments of today? And what is the long-term potential of metals as investments? This book by Jake Bernstein, one of today?s leading authorities on investing in metals, answers these questions and more as it explores the investment opportunities and profit potential in metals. Whether you?re a new investor or an experienced speculator, Jake Bernstein?s New Guide to Investing in Metals gives you concise and comprehensive information about:
- The basic metals groups and investment fundamentals, including information about their history, applications, sources, and availability
- The near-term, intermediate-term, and long-term price outlook for each of the metal markets
- "Precious" and "strategic" metals?where we find them and how we get them, how they?re used, their supply and demand, their role in military industrial applications, and their potential as investment vehicles
- Specific technical investment factors which have shown a high degree of reliability and/or repetition in the given metals
- Bernstein?s own expert evaluation of optimum investment opportunities in each metals market
- A look at the various investment vehicles, their assets, liabilities, potential for profit, and risk of loss
Jake Bernstein?s New Guide to Investing in Metals gives you all the information you need to make informed and profitable investment decisions regarding today?s metals markets.