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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Gold 31 Moderate Deep liquidity and a moderate swing, but it pays nothing and costs you to keep — the shape of something held as insurance, not for return.
  • Silver 38 Moderate Gold's outline stretched along the volatility axis: the same no-yield carry, roughly twice the swing.
  Gold Silver
Exit difficulty 1 2
Volatility 3 4
Leverage 2 2
Carry cost 3 3
Fraud risk 3 3
Protection gap 3 3
Barrier to entry 1 1
Expertise needed 2 2
Difficulty 31 Moderate 38 Moderate
In a sentence The oldest continuously traded asset on earth, valued almost entirely for the fact that other people value it, and priced in London twice a day.Half precious metal, half industrial input — which is why it moves like gold with the volatility dial turned up.
Unit Troy ounce (31.1035g) Troy ounce
Smallest realistic trade A 1g bar, or one share of a gold ETF A 1oz coin, or one ETC share
Settlement T+2 in London; allocated or unallocated account T+2 London OTC

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