Beware the gold bugs but depending on who you ask 5, 10 or up to 15% of your portfolio can be in gold to diversify your portfolio. Key is to pick a percentage and rebalance on a set schedule. I will likely be selling on my next rebalance since equities are low and gold is high. Freaking out is not advised.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
122 points (92.4% liked)
World News
46166 readers
2681 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
For people not familiar with this, hodl and rebalance (neither early nor late) goes for the non-crisis investments too. The beauty of it is that, inevitably, one of your things is going to preform poorly, and you're guaranteed to buy the dip when that happens. Panic selling is death, it makes you do the opposite.
Oh that's what's freaking them out?
Should I invest my entire 401k in gold?
Edit: Maybe just buy gold bars and bury them in my back yard.
Always split the cache up. Some behind a fireplace suspended from a rope anchored in your attic. Some behind baseboard that isn’t nailed down. Some in the toilet tank. Don’t waste it all on the backyard.
Remember, If you hide it in your toilet tank, it’ll help you save water per flush as well!
Yep you should definitely bury it in your garden. I can help digging!
Does that make you a gold digger?
Invest in gold when times are stable, only enough to winter through times of uncertainty.
Now is the time to sell gold.
I bought stocks in times of uncertainty and am now 6% total portfolio in profit after 1 month.
If you are hearing it now you are likely too late. You should have been in gold six months ago.
My read is Trump has exhausted all support he has and has been told to walk his recent economic policies back or he will be out in a few months. Either on his back or by a concerted campaign to oust him by our elites.
Of course it’s Trump so he’ll just find some other part of our government or culture to fuck with in order to direct the next news cycle for the next two weeks. My bet is deportations or Canada of the liberals win.
But he’s likely done breaking the economy and will sign agreements with countries that look just like they did before the market lost Trillions in value. He will likely loose big time with China. Xi can hold out far longer than he can.
Goldman Sachs (GS) has hiked its year-end forecast for gold to $3,700, citing trade turmoil and spiking volatility. Other firms and banks have followed suit.
That's all? I'm not analyst or investor, so a few kilos of salt with what I'm about to say: I'm guessing 4000-4200.