Long Position on Silver and Gold?

[MrPrena]

LOL. no problem on your PS. I deal with this kind of questions at least once a month at a social gathering.
I do somewhat agree that it might be slightly easier to make $$$ on real estate side. It all depends on experience, and which side of headache investor/income collectors are more tolerable.
My parents did that when they were rich. (obviously not rich anymore).


Okay. Stock/Stores/Private Eq/Real estate has to work MORE than a purchase ALONE in order to generate any types of income.
This is probably best way to compare it, because securities investors can generate much higher income than their .01% annual dividends.

CAPITAL GAINS (Comparison in order)
-Buying a company (private equity/capital/or a small store) and selling it for a cap gain only (flip).
-Buying a stock only for a cap gain only.
-Buying a residential/commercial real estate only for a flip (cap gain) only.

DIVIDENDS/INCOMES (Gotta do MORE than a purchase of ANY investments)
-AFTER Buying a company (private equity/capital/or a small store), YOU are operating it for an income at xyz entity.
-AFTER buying a stock, you are writing options (option strategies) based on your position + collecting dinky little dividends, and/or decent one time dividends. <-------
-AFTER Buying a residential/commercial real estate, you are renting the property to a tenants.

You made my point.. No luck, no skill, and easier money on the real estate side. The last statement was to answer your direct comparison between capital gainer to dividend earner. My friend doubled his initial investment in just dividend, not counting the value increases.

You are still comparing capital gain vs dividend earner. In that case, my best deal are 2 properties here in Denver metro area that I purchased for $14k and $32k. Both are still producing me dividend of $800 a month for the last 5 years with increasing rate annually and many fold over in value. Show me one stock that give you that kind of yield on monthly or annual basis on top of the value gain

Doubling capital with just rental income in 2 years is norm in rental business. Especially now that fnma allows 10% on certain investment loan and hard money guys are jumping back in. These folks are not top 'investors' as you put it.

Best of all, bull or bear, we the lowly landlords still get our dividends.

Back on the topic, I look at silver as insurance. I am not sure how some people buy it for the gain of its value.

PS..sorry didnt mean this to become pissing contest lol