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What everyone else said, just don't put all your eggs in one basket, look at the tax breaks you can get from different means and get a feel for how big events effects different investments and adjust as you go. This is how diversified I am - I feel a little underweight on gold and overweight on specific shares, not in any rush to adjust but moving things over time but also keeping in mind that shares are quite cheap at the moment (depending on what comes in the future of course) Also finding with gold and silver they become more of a hobby than other investments. And then further diversified in the Sipp like this:

This is so true, before you know it you start creeping up in weights and volumes

Haha, you know I was thinking that as I did them

Most appreciated mate 👍

Couldn’t resist, basically because I wanted to make a little pyramid … tnx @sellerstacker

Lovely thanks, and yep intend to work through all your guides

Thanks dude, yeah I meant focal length ... not really that knowledgeable when it comes to photography. I used to use the Pentax a lot when I first got it, now looking forward to re-reading the manual to figure it all out again 🙃 Im sure i can find one on ebay in the length you suggest with the right mount.

That's basically what I use and it seems fine, I dont really handle the gold much other than when i first get it to test it, there after it stays in a capsule. And yep, defo needed for the bbq's - still trying to master the art of applying the rub/seasoning without wasting too many gloves

Old post on it here may be useful - I get a box of the latex type mentioned in the post every now and then, come in handy for handling meat too

WTF?

Tnx, that’s so bad for silver lol. Run out of emoticons so a 👍 for you and Op

Hi Wondering if anyone can recommend any reasonably priced macro lenses that are likely to pop up on the second hand market for a Pentax K5. Also what is the best size to be looking for … Thanks 👍 @Charliemouse 👍

@20JMK20 ^^

Trust also a factor … not sure how much value I’d put on results from a Chinese rip off on my stack

Imho, get him to sign up here and either auction one of the bars or sell around the 710-715 mark offering to post first to someone with an established reputation, he will either be able to sell a few at a time over a few weeks or find a few people to do a bigger deal with. Will probably make about 1k more whilst still being competitive on pricing.

Yep, decent quality product with good utility. No doubt China could copy easily in an unethical way. The price point isn’t unreasonable imo, barriers to entry for the average joe will be too high and they can’t shift high volumes given the niche, so payback and sustaining employees can’t be that easy

As an example trusted sellers shifted maybe 10kg today at 715-720ish within a few hours

The spot price and the physical market, especially the second hand market for silver are different, whilst theres correlation/causation in the movement there’s significant premium/margin between spot and where physical trades settled. At 700£ a kilo he will sell lightening fast on here, as a newcomer he would need to be willing to gain trust first and probably post before receiving payments. Alternatively check the sold prices of KGs on eBay.

Dude needs to learn Google … jokes aside can easily get more over the space of a few weeks

Partly manufacturing cost, partly because there’s a market they can charge this price point to and be viable.

What’s normal for silver? That’s still well within a band of premium in terms of resale profitability so is a bit of a headline grabber but exudes less of a hard on when you realise it’s for silver not gold.

Not sure if you have more than the photo but if you do, 1 metalor and 1 perth pls if you can post.

We can but hope

If that ever happened there would be plenty in the sidelines ready to step in. There would have to be legislation change for the gold market to change significantly. There's no need to feel like you're doing anything wrong, keep good records, pay taxes due but be tax efficient within the system. This is really no different to investing in stocks and shares, just another part of a well-balanced portfolio, if anything the govt should be happy we're reducing future dependency on the state.

China are playing a long game by seeing that an oil currency that can hurt them with sanctions isn't the strategic future play, but they do still have many things that go against them. They're a huge dictating bureaucracy and copy more than they innovate and if they do start to see recession one-day thats a big population over a massive territory to try to keep in control. Companies on the US stock market are more responsive, Tesla being a good example make good money in China. I dont think the Silver all-time high is that much of a consideration, it looks like it was a bit of a freak run rather than an area of sustained interest, the price its at now is much more an area of peak when you look through the noise on the long term charts, if it builds a base here which judging by golds action is very possible it could then start trending between 20-25 over the next few years.