Thank you very much for taking the time to educate me in your post I stand corrected with my "store of wealth" statement. I am a fan of gold and silver but an even bigger fan of spreading my money into things that are not fiat so I don't just stack silver in hopes it goes to the moon, as it very well may never do so. I also have a fair amount of gold and plan to add significantly to that over time, I am nearly at the top of where I want to be positioned for silver because it currently remains undervalued/manipulated whatever we want to call it I could get more of it for less money so it was easier to stack the stack in Ag first and build Au more gradually. I have seen too many opportunities to invest where I learned about them too late and they were no longer a great buy. I see PM's as undervalued so I wanted to get ahead of the potential growth as the US Dollar commits suicide and the inevitable transition to digital currencies happens. At the end of the day I am fairly new to all of this and my financial education is far behind where it should be for a number of reasons I won't go into at the moment. I am here to learn and grow and hopefully avoid catastrophic mistakes in the process.