I’ve introduced two simple-but-incredible gold systems to you in the last month…
One delivered amazing returns in gold stocks. And one used gold to dramatically increase your portfolio returns AND reduce your risk.
Today, I’ll share with you another simple-but-incredible system… Only this one isn’t about gold stocks or gold in your portfolio – this system is on gold itself.
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But the results are incredibly powerful.
When in “buy” mode, this simple system has returned 16.1% a year in gold.
When in “sell” mode, gold has fallen by -2.9% a year.
Now those are fantastic results.
Importantly, gold was in buy mode 59% of the time – so you would have had plenty of opportunities to take advantage of this system. (All of these data go back to 1971.)
In short, you want to be in gold when this simple system says “buy.” And you want to step aside when it says “sell.”
This is a monthly system. You only have to pay attention 12 times a year.
This simple system does a fantastic job of keeping you in during a bull market and keeping you out during a bear market.
From late 2001 to 2012, this system was in buy mode nearly all of the time. It was only in sell mode for just two months during that entire 11-year span. It captured the whole great bull market in gold.
Then it said “sell.” This system has been in sell mode since 2012 – for the most part.
That looks like it’s changing, right now.
You see, the end of March was the second month in a row that this system was in buy mode. You have to go back to 2012 to find two months in a row where gold was in buy mode.
To roughly sum up this system:
2001 to 2012: Buy gold
2012 to 2015: Sell gold
2016 to ???: Buy gold
What is this simple system?
Here it is:
If the price of gold is higher today than it was one year ago today, then you buy gold for the next month.
That’s it. After one month passes, you do the same thing. If gold is lower today than it was a one year ago, you sell. One month later, you check the numbers again.
How can it be so simple? And what does such a simple-but-powerful system tell us about gold?
It tells us gold tends to keep going in the direction that it’s currently going in. That’s it.
The beauty of the simplicity is that it’s not “cherry-picked” or “curve-fitted.” You could certainly crunch the numbers and find a system that would have better performance since 1971. But that misses the point.
The important point that this dumb system proves is that the principle is right – gold tends to keep going in the direction that it’s already going in.
Today – for the first time since 2012 – gold has been in buy mode for two months in a row.
This system has a great track record. I urge you to buy gold today, and to track this simple system going forward…
Good investing,
Steve
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Source: Daily Wealth