What is your strategy for PM allocation?

[stackerp5]

I've recently been seeing online some people recommending silver stackers to hold 1oz of gold for every 500oz of silver. 

What is your ratio?
How did you come to that ratio?

*People who stack mostly gold can also answer if you'd like  

[Shinus73]

Currently 50 oz of silver for every oz of gold. It used to be 100, but has naturally reduced as my overall stack size has increased.

[stackerp5]

7 minutes ago, Shinus73 said:

Currently 50 oz of silver for every oz of gold. It used to be 100, but has naturally reduced as my overall stack size has increased.

Just out of curiosity, do you trade the G:S ratio or you just stack/prep? If you think these questions are too personal there's no need to answer  

[Shinus73]

8 minutes ago, stackerp5 said:

Just out of curiosity, do you trade the G:S ratio or you just stack/prep? If you think these questions are too personal there's no need to answer  

I keep enough of each metal to try and take advantage of large moves, but don’t base my strategy on it.

I now generally just buy things I like or things I can make a profit on - the price has to be right in both cases!

[AppleZippoandMetronome]

My record keeping shows currently 1oz of gold per aprox 40oz of silver.

That being said it isn't by design. My interest is in keeping my ear to the ground and buying what seems right to buy. I have purchased next to no silver since the dip in March because I feel it has been a bad buy since then. I bought silver heavily (for me) in 2018 and 2019. I've bought gold heavily (again, for me) at certain points between January 2020 to July 2020. I've really not bought much of either since.

When I first got more involved with this I had all sorts of grand plans for how many ozs/year I was going to buy but the reality is I don't think it makes sense to keep buying when the prices (read premiums) are absurd. I'm not going to give myself an uphill battle trying to grow wealth by paying absurd premiums it'll take years, decades, etc just to claw back. The shiny stuff is nice (and I'm damn glad I have what I do) but sometimes its not the best thing you can spend money on and I think its important to recognise that.

[stackerp5]

50 minutes ago, AppleZippoandMetronome said:

My record keeping shows currently 1oz of gold per aprox 40oz of silver.

That being said it isn't by design. My interest is in keeping my ear to the ground and buying what seems right to buy. I have purchased next to no silver since the dip in March because I feel it has been a bad buy since then. I bought silver heavily (for me) in 2018 and 2019. I've bought gold heavily (again, for me) at certain points between January 2020 to July 2020. I've really not bought much of either since.

When I first got more involved with this I had all sorts of grand plans for how many ozs/year I was going to buy but the reality is I don't think it makes sense to keep buying when the prices (read premiums) are absurd. I'm not going to give myself an uphill battle trying to grow wealth by paying absurd premiums it'll take years, decades, etc just to claw back. The shiny stuff is nice (and I'm damn glad I have what I do) but sometimes its not the best thing you can spend money on and I think its important to recognise that.

That makes sense! Initially I had a strategy to favor gold but I am veering more into silver. I was personally thinking of a 100:1 silver to gold ratio but again, the gold prices are higher and premiums are off the roof which make me favour silver more and forget the 100:1. I am tempted though to purchase paying 0% VAT on the @BackyardBullion group purchase which is a good opportunity but I am stuck between gold & silver haha - time to revaluate the strategy!!

[HawkHybrid]

what/how you stack should be dependant on the purpose of the metal at hand.

people who eat baked beans can stack that. those who don't eat baked beans

probably shouldn't stack it(no matter how cheap others are claiming it is).

stack metals for it's purpose and let your own uniqueness lead you to your own

personal gsr ratio.

 

HH

[Roy]

Currently, I hold 1oz Gold for every 1.2oz of Silver

I need to rebalance and sell some silver.

[stackerp5]

1 hour ago, Roy said:

Currently, I hold 1oz Gold for every 1.2oz of Silver

I need to rebalance and sell some silver.

or buy some more gold to compensate  

[MrTT]

1 oz gold for every 100 oz silver, or very close to it 🤠

[RacerCool]

My strategy is to convert cash to gold and silver, basically so that have viable money options if/when there's a radical change in the economy. 

So I have a heavy stack of silver, a heavy-ish stack of copper, and a not nearly heavy enough slowly increasing stack of gold. 

My strategy early on was to quickly build a solid stack of silver, then focus mostly on gold. There's no strict GSR involved here. But these days I mostly focus on gold, buying at roughly 1 oz of gold for every 15-20 oz of silver. I accumulate copper pennies as I go.

[stackerp5]

1 hour ago, RacerCool said:

My strategy is to convert cash to gold and silver, basically so that have viable money options if/when there's a radical change in the economy. 

So I have a heavy stack of silver, a heavy-ish stack of copper, and a not nearly heavy enough slowly increasing stack of gold. 

My strategy early on was to quickly build a solid stack of silver, then focus mostly on gold. There's no strict GSR involved here. But these days I mostly focus on gold, buying at roughly 1 oz of gold for every 15-20 oz of silver. I accumulate copper pennies as I go.

That's the approach I am taking for my stack! Heavy on silver and very light on gold. I don't stack copper though as the market here doesn't really have them but it is a good call too  Thanks for your input!