Poll: What percentage of your gold is held in physical form?

Discussion of the Gold portion of the Permanent Portfolio

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What percentage of your gold is held in physical form?

Poll runs till Wed Jun 19, 2058 10:05 am

0-19%
44
58%
20-39%
2
3%
40-59%
11
14%
60-79%
4
5%
80-100%
15
20%
 
Total votes: 76
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Re: Poll: What percentage of your gold is held in physical form?

Post by vnatale » Sun Aug 22, 2021 7:11 pm

k9 wrote:
Mon Mar 31, 2014 4:34 am

100% physical here. To each his own, but I don't really get the "I'm 100% ETF because that's more convenient". You are not supposed to ever sell your whole gold portion (except in armaggedon scenarios). So you can hold a stable foundation (say, 1/3rd of it you will probably never, ever sell) as physical gold and keep the potentially-rebalanced 2/3 in ETFs.


Here is a good opposite argument for only physical and NO paper!
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
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Re: Poll: What percentage of your gold is held in physical form?

Post by seajay » Fri Aug 27, 2021 2:57 pm

Depends upon how much you're drawing, or not.

Accumulators (0% SWR) 22% physical (unlikely to be traded), 3% fund/ETF i.e. yearly granularity lowest low historic since 1930's was 88%.

2% SWR 16% physical
3% SWR 8% physical
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