Gold as a Store of Value

For centuries, Gold has been considered the ultimate stdre of value. Paper money may come and go, but Gold lives on. The recent difficulty is attended by the fact that the contracts for the piurchase and sale of Gold options and contracts far exceeds the amount of physical Gold which would beto accomodate fulfillment of those obligations.  Japanese Candlesticks forecasting predicted many months ago that the Gold and Silver markets could not possibly fulfill those requests if asked to do so. The speed and severity of the decline caught manyi investors off guardd, in a pnearly vertical price ascent, which trumped any price increase in modern times. Many lesseons were learned in this downturn, one of them being the great asset in the ability of the candles toi sccessfully navigate the markets during a time of great government intervention and turmoil int he markets.