The first type: the physical transaction of investing in gold.

Advantages: Gold is a symbol of status and has the characteristics of maintaining and increasing value. The ancient traditional concept makes China people have a soft spot for gold, which is widely favored by individual gold collectors.

Disadvantages: this investment method is mainly adopted by big gold merchants or the national central bank as their own production raw materials or as the country's foreign exchange reserves. Trading is more troublesome and has the characteristics of "easy to buy but difficult to sell".

The second type: paper gold trading.

Advantages: Better than physical gold investment. The investment is small, starting from 0. 1 ounce (about 3.1035g), which makes the transaction more convenient and saves the steps of gold transportation, storage, inspection and identification.

Disadvantages: Paper gold is a real gold transaction, and small funds are meaningless. You can only buy up, which means you can only buy low and sell high. When the price of gold falls, investors can only wait and see. The commission on investment is relatively high.

The third type: gold spot T+D transaction.

The fourth type: gold futures.

The comparison between futures gold and spot gold, the most popular investment at present.

Spot gold trading is basically a real-time transaction, which is delivered after the transaction or within a few days. The main purpose of futures gold trading is hedging, which is a supplement to spot trading. There is no immediate transaction after the transaction, but the two parties sign the contract first, pay the deposit, and then deliver the goods on the scheduled date. Its main advantage is that it can master a large number of futures with a small amount of funds and transfer the contract price in advance, which has leverage.

Advantages and disadvantages of spot gold relative to futures gold.

Fifth: London gold investment

T+0 trading, timely operation, turning losses into profits, at present, you can choose foreign companies such as Hong Kong to invest in gold, with high risks and high returns.

Investing in gold should be considered comprehensively according to the individual's economic situation, economic goals to be achieved, economic pressure to be borne and other factors.

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