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If you are thinking about investing in gold, basically there are three ways in how to buy gold. The straightforward and most obvious way is to buy physical gold, for example, buying gold jewellery, gold sovereigns, gold bars etc.
The 2nd way is to buy some kind of paper contract that follows the spot price of gold. There are contracts available in all major cities where you can successfully have ownership of something that is going to track the gold price but without actually physically handling the gold itself.
The drawback with the 1st option with physically buying gold bars is you will have to store them somewhere. In fact you'll probably be leaving them in a bank, in a deposit account, in a cage or safe somewhere which may cost you money in storage fees. Gold coins are relatively easy to store yourself.
So your options are to own and handle the gold yourself, own gold by taking out a paper contract which will in turn track the price of gold for you and a 3rd way is to look at the ownership of shares in a gold mining company.
Of course there are a variety of these companies, some which mine gold only and some which mine assortment of minerals as well as gold. The problems you could face here are similar to the inconvenience that can arise with all shares with things getting more complicated. If the company is badly run or their reserves are not as high as their stocks of other minerals the mining shares might not follow the spot price of gold as closely as you may have liked.
On the other hand it’s relatively easy to buy and sell shares and if you have a physical possession of gold such as sovereigns or gold bars they will be very easy to sell on. So you need to consider physically owning the gold which can be a very rewarding experience when building a collection of sovereign coins or do you want a paper contract that will track the price of gold or do you want to add a mining company to your portfolio.
Consider those three options very carefully before deciding how you would like to get into the gold market. The price of gold can move in unexpected directions due to all the large banks holding a lot of bullion in reserve. From time to time they have to move this bullion around to defend their currency which can course the prices to fluctuate. This will mean that gold can be a very good investment but on the other hand you may need to hang on to your gold for some time to see a really good return.