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Gold Buying Yes, Selling No

Gold Investor Index shows investor selling retreating further as price steadies...
 
The NUMBER of BullionVault users starting or adding to their gold holding increased slightly from September last month, writes Adrian Ash, head of research.
 
But it was a 15% drop in the number of net sellers which pushed the Gold Investor Index higher in October, up to its highest level since April.
 
Overall, net gold buyers outnumbered sellers better than two-to-one on BullionVault in October.
 
That took our index – which measures the balance of private investors adding to their gold holdings over those who reduce them on BullionVault, the world's biggest exchange for gold and silver online – up to a 6-month high of 54.3 from 53.0 in September.
 
The Gold Investor Index peaked at 71.7 in September 2011. A reading of 50.0 would signal a perfect balance of net buyers and sellers.
 
Of course, with world stock markets hitting 5-year highs, it should have been no surprise to gold prices edging lower. Average monthly gold prices have now fallen in 10 of the last 12 months – something not seen since the bull market began in early 2001.
 
But Washington's short-term fix to the debt ceiling confirms there's no will to tackle spending or money printing long term. And with the insurance value of gold ownership being confirmed, October's drop in its price let savers build their insurance at lower cost.

Adrian Ash

Adrian Ash, BullionVault Gold News

Adrian Ash is director of research at BullionVault, the world-leading physical gold, silver and platinum market for private investors online. Formerly head of editorial at London's top publisher of private-investment advice, he was City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning from 2003 to 2008, and he has now been researching and writing daily analysis of precious metals and the wider financial markets for over 20 years. A frequent guest on BBC radio and television, Adrian is regularly quoted by the Financial Times, MarketWatch and many other respected news outlets, and his views from inside the bullion market have been sought by the Economist magazine, CNBC, Bloomberg, Germany's Handelsblatt and FAZ, plus Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore.

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