This post is a follow up to another publication on our blog Circulated Silver Coins – How to Buy Junk Silver Coins
In the previous publication why people are crazy about buying the junk silver these days. For more details read the quoted post.
Today we would like to share with you more tips about the purchase of circulated silver coin rolls, junk silver bags and how to buy junk silver properly.
First of all you can get a lot of help from this any silver calculator (plenty of them in the net) that simply counts the value of the coin, based on the current price on silver. This is a very useful tool for your junk silver purchases.
eBay is much better for the purchases of jun silver. Other places, such as coin and bullion dealers, tack on fairly large premiums ($2.00 or so per oz.), have very big minimum purchase lots and don’t provide online purchases. If your looking at 10s of $ per purchase like me, instead of high 100s or 1000s, EBay is the place to go.
On eBay better deals are found in off hours. With judicious buying it is possible to keep my purchases right around spot price, even after shipping.
For more tips about junk silver track this blog.
Today the economic situation has made the traditional investment opportunities (like real estate, government bonds, etc.) really unsafe.
That is why lots of people started to save their paper money from inflation with the help of silver bullion bars, circulated silver coins and dollars, silver rounds, etc.
Scale of Risks for
Different Types of Silver Bullion Investments
When you are thinking about different options of investing into silver – you should take into account the possible pros and cons, because any precious metal investment that you choose has these pros and cons.
Usually, when evaluating the pros and cons with silver investments, you should take care of 2 factors:
- storage
- amount of money
Storage is an obvious factor. It is quite risky to store big amounts of silver bullion bars anywhere, for really obvious reasons. The same can be said about silver bullion coins, privately minted silver rounds or any other silver that comes in the form of a physical object that you do not store at bank.
So, this is risky, BUT at the same moment this is something valuable IN YOUR HANDS. Not somewhere at bank, or in some virtual investment plan. And in case of big economic crisis the banks will not gonna give real backup to all that virtual “silver backed” accounts, funds, investment schemes.
Amount of money is also an important factor. If you can invest a lot – then you can afford silver mutual funds, or futures or options. This will allow generating nice profits, and many people do that. So, if you have enough in your pocket – you can try this.
But this is already trading, precious metal trading, and this is a very specific type of investment. Where big profits can go together with huge losses.
AND – this is a virtual value. Because, once again, during the times of big crisis no one is going to give you real basket of silver rounds for your option or future contract.
So, if you are short of money and/or want a tangible value (not some virtual account) – go for silver rounds, silver buillion bars or silver coins.
How and Where to Get Silver Bullion At the Best Price:
Guide to Choosing Reputable Dealer.
To buy silver bullion you need to go to the bullion dealers. The biggest problem is that many dealers show a huge list of bullion products, but they have only few from them available. For example, bullion investors almost wiped out the niche of junk silver coins and many dealers will put you on a waiting list if you try to get one.
So, one of the first things that you should sort out with the dealers is – do they have a specific bullion product available, right here – right now. You should expect 24-48 hours delivery from a good bullion dealer.
Another thing to take into the account is the security of the payments. Choose only secure payment methods like PayPal or bankwire (directly to the bank account). Never use fancy electronic payment system where the real identity of the account owner is not checked. For example, in egold.com they do not check the ID of account holders, due to this many scammers open these accounts, get the money, disappear with the money and no one will ever catch them.
So, use only top trusted payment systems like PayPal or direct bank wire to the bank account of the bullion dealer.
Ask for discounts – specific discount. Dealers are ready to give them. And I do not mean a simple discount of “buy more, get average price lowered” – this works with almost all dealers. I mean search for specific discounts. Like discounts when you use eCheck (it is an option with PayPal, and under the control of PayPal). Sometimes you need to ask a question – do that! This is about your money.
Before we go into details of how to find high yield low risk investments I would like to focus your attention on the following – don’t you think that ‘high yield investment‘ and ‘low risk investment’ are the notions that can hardly fit together.
Every experienced investor will tell you that usually you are:
That is why if you are searching the net for high yield low risk investments – you are doing something wrong, you are basically wrong about the matter of investments. Let’s take Forex for example – you can make huge profits during a day, sometimes that can be over 100% or even 200% – when there is a huge trend change on the currency market even bigger profit % is possible. But at the same moment that can be 100%, 200% and bigger losses, if the trend goes against you.
On the other hand, you can invest money into precious metals – like gold – and see how it slowly grows in the society of global inflation. The profit growth will not be tremendous, but quite stable and predictable.
In my personal opinion and in the experience of many people those who are promising "high yield low risk" profits are manipulating naive investors and leave them ripped off.
In case you see the investment company doing that, at least check if they have investment license issued by the special governmental agency in the country of its residense. If they have this license, then – at least – you have a chance to see someone at court.
The best place to invest is the most important question that inches every investor and investor to be.
The aswer to the question where you will invest starts about researching the various types of investments, determining risk tolerance, investment style, financial goals.
Learning the basics of stock market takes time. But this is an important investment of time. And with access to the Internet, you can even play yourself.
As a potential investor - read anything you can about investing, but surely you need to start from the investment basics.
As one of the best advice is to speak with a financial planner. This is a person who – after hearing your financial goals and other details – can shortcut you to the necessary type of investment.
Beyond any doubt investing requires some degree of skill.
Before you jump into investments – find out more about investing and how it all works from inside and determine what your goals are.
It is really important to know what is the purpose of your investments: funding a college education, Buying a home, Retiring, etc.
From this purpose you will build your whole investment behavior!
One of the typical mistakes in investing is to invest for the purpose of becoming rich overnight. Whereas this is possible, but one should understand that this is rare. A much safer and realistic strategy is to invest your money so that it grows slowly.
Also consider talking to a financial planner before starting to invest. This financial planner helps to determine what exactly type of investments you should make to reach the financial goals.
And be always prepared that investing needs a lot more than calling a broker. This is about research and knowledge and will and persistance.
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