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Precious metal trading a couple questions
I live in China, the national bank here allows you to buy silver on something called RMB/SLV market. Basically i'm displayed a bid and ask price, at the moment both are around 5.7rmb.
I'd like to ...
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What is the correlation between silver prices and stock prices?
I'm interested in the correlation (in the recent years, or even decades) between the silver (and maybe gold) prices and some stock market index. In other words, I'd like to know how strong is the ...
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Does India's National Spot exchange support web based trading for retail investors?
The NSEL website says that eseries is meant for India's retail investors. But I am yet to comes across any of its members (brokerage houses) that offer web based trading for retail clients? They only ...
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How can a resident Indian buy and hold physical gold/silver at BullionVault?
Is it legal for an Indian resident to transact at BullionVault? Are there any tax implications? While BullionVault allows deposits from international banks, it only does so in dollars, pounds or ...
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Why is silver so volatile compared to the S&P 500?
As an example, silver took a 9.4% hit on 9/22/2011, which was a bad market day -- the Dow dropped over 3.5%.
The conventional wisdom is that precious metals like silver are a hedge against a falling ...
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Is the gold and silver in the GLD and SLV ETFs leveraged?
There are various blogs and videos that indicate that the gold that GLD holds (via HSBC) and the silver that SLV holds (via JP Morgan) is leveraged 50 to 1 or 100 to 1. For me there are some ...
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Basis for American collectible coins in lieu of proof of purchase price?
(Wanted to get this in as question number 2,000. ;) )
Say I have some silver half dollars, but no receipt of purchase. Can I claim face value (50 cents) as the basis should I sell, or is the basis ...
