“Fat Dividends from Cancer,” a personal buy, … and some updates
by Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe | April 5, 2013 1:05 pm
Friday file thoughts on a handful of companies, plus a Marc LIchtenfeld cancer teaser
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Thanks Travis!!!! LOVE your posts.
Quick question (I realize I am posting always about Gold, in reality its about 10% of my portfolio today, LOL).
Where do you buy physical gold and do you have a recommendation on where/how to store it? I was going to start purchasing gold every 6 months…
Also, how does one sell it and if so close to market price? If its a pawn shop, I would feel very nervous as they cater to people who are desperate to sell, usually at a significant loss. My parents in India have no such problem, there is a thriving market for gold there and I believe prices are slightly lower than the US as well.
I feel owning and growing a small asset base on physical gold is a no brainier and something I am sorely missing today!!!!
I’ve used both Northwest Territorial Mint and APMEX to buy online, had good experiences with both. When I did sell some gold and silver coins a couple years ago I found the best pricing was by selling them on eBay — though it’s a bit more of a hassle to deal with having to ship them out. Partly that’s because I don’t have a decent coin dealer nearby (as far as I know), I expect.
Thank you! Called BofA and they have a locker service apparently that I can use. SWEET!!!
Thanks for all your diligent and meaningful work, Travis. I’ll be forever indebted to you for telling us about SAND before the reverse split. However, I was one of those these past two weeks watching the influence of gravity on the PPS. My wife thought I was “losing” several hundred dollars each and every day. NOW she understands that since I didn’t sell – I didn’t lose.
Hi Travis, Goldman Sachs came out today with a bearish stance toward gold (today’s WSJ I believe) predicting it will be down the rest of 2013 to $1450 and perhaps into 2014. Back in Nov of last year they were predicting it to go to $1850 so they obviously change their minds fairly quickly. What are your thoughts on this?
I don’t have any expertise in forecasting the prices of precious metals, I’m afraid — I invest in gold as an asset class because I worry about currency depreciation, not because I think gold will drive to $2,000 or above this year. I also diversify away from the dollar as a matter of routine, which has generally been a mistake over the past couple of years.
I think that global efforts to depreciate currencies even more, in a competitive fashion, and to keep real interest rates negative, will probably lead to more upward spikes in gold prices in the decade to come, but whether that means $1250 or $1850 for gold in the next twelve months depends a lot on big waves of investor panic and enthusiasm, and on unpredictable central banks.
Hi Travis,
I am a paid member to your service which I really enjoy. I live in Edmonton, Canada.
How can I tell if a stock is heavily shorted or vice versa?
Do you also know if there is a hold back on dividends recieved from U S based companies for people north of the border?
Thank you
Hi Otam, thanks for joining us!
Short ratios and short interest are reported on US stocks in most major financial portals — you’ll find the under “Key Statistics” in Yahoo Finance, for example. There are also sites that specifically track short interest, like shortsqueeze.com (some data free, some paid). The short interest is the actual number of shares sold short, the percentage of the float that’s sold short is usually listed as the short percentage (float excludes major holders and insiders, who are presumed to be firm holders and not freely trading their shares). The short ratio and days to cover are the same thing, that’s the number of days of average trading volume that it would take for all the short holders to buy back their shares.
Hi Travis,
Can I buy MIL in IRA account?
Thanks
RP
I own MFC Industrial (MIL) in an IRA.
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