What percentage of your VP is in gold?

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What percentage of your VP is in gold (either physical, ETFs or mining stocks?)

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68%
0-40%
5
23%
40-60%
1
5%
60-80%
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5%
80-100%
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goodasgold
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What percentage of your VP is in gold?

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Just out of curiosity...
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What percentage of zero is zero?
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Xan wrote: What percentage of zero is zero?
zero
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Like the post, but the bands are large. Gold comprises 5.5% of my VP, 10% of total portfolio (PP+VP combined).
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dragoncar wrote:
Xan wrote: What percentage of zero is zero?
zero
Isn't it just as easily 100% of zero?  I think there needs to be an "undefined" option.
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Xan wrote:
dragoncar wrote:
Xan wrote: What percentage of zero is zero?
zero
Isn't it just as easily 100% of zero?  I think there needs to be an "undefined" option.
Yes
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Desert wrote:
Xan wrote:
dragoncar wrote: zero
Isn't it just as easily 100% of zero?  I think there needs to be an "undefined" option.
Yes, mathematically, that's undefined.  I also have an undefined percentage of gold in my VP.  Now, that could mean that I have an infinitely large stock of gold...
100% of your gold will be lost in a boating accident
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dragoncar wrote: 100% of your gold will be lost in a boating accident
Is the center of a black hole a zero or is it 100%?
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MachineGhost wrote:
dragoncar wrote: 100% of your gold will be lost in a boating accident
Is the center of a black hole a zero or is it 100%?
I'm assuming more gold lost in tragic boating accidents was near 26.312378, -70.397133
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