It is stable in nature, brilliant in luster and widely used, but its stock is scarce, so it is of high value. At present, the common precious metals in the market are eight rare metals, such as gold, silver and platinum group (ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum). These metal chemicals are gold, silver, platinum and palladium, and the main trading varieties in the domestic investment market are gold and silver.
2. Why choose to invest in precious metals?
In recent years, with the outbreak of the world financial crisis, the global economic situation has been constantly turbulent and evolving, and the threat of inflation has been increasing. The demand of precious metals investment, which has the characteristics of hedging, shows an explosive growth trend. Compared with traditional securities, futures, real estate investment and bank savings, precious metals have very good liquidity and value preservation, and can resist currency changes and price increases caused by inflation. At the same time, precious metals investment is also the best investment choice in the future that Buffett, Soros, Rogers and other international investment masters unanimously value!
Precious metal trading includes various trading methods of precious metals investment products, including precious metal spot, precious metal futures, physical precious metal and paper precious metal. Although different varieties of precious metals investment have different trading rules, from the fundamental and technical analysis, the corresponding reference factors and the method of looking at the market are basically the same. The following small series expounds from four sections: precious metal market quotation, precious metal trading terminology, common sense of precious metal trading and introduction to precious metal technical analysis.
I. Market Situation of Precious Metals
1. The market situation of precious metals refers to the composition of the market of precious metals suppliers and demanders. The supply side usually refers to precious metal mining enterprises, and the demand side refers to central banks, banks, hedge funds, precious metal brokerage companies and individual investors. Some organizations are both suppliers and demanders, such as banks and hedge funds.
2. The interaction between supply and demand in precious metals market is influenced by many international factors, including the economic development of important economic powers, regional geopolitical events that affect international political peace, the increase or decrease of gold output of gold miners, the investment preference of financial markets for precious metals, etc. These factors all affect the equivalence of supply and demand in precious metals market, thus affecting the price trend of precious metals market.
3. Novices in precious metals investment should pay more attention to international economic events and economic growth data of important countries, and also pay close attention to the geopolitical pattern that affects the trend of international important commodities, because precious metals are not only important commodities in the international market, but also influenced by other similar products, such as oil and non-ferrous metals, and they can get the latest information by browsing the daily financial news.
Two. Terminology of precious metal trading
1. Precious metal trading terms refer to special terms that need to be learned during precious metal trading, such as shorting, shorting, closing positions, locking positions, K-line charts, etc. Different technical terms have different meanings. All kinds of special terms * * * isomorphically become the concepts of all watching and trading in precious metals trading.
2. When we look at the precious metal trading strategy written by analysts, we often see the use of terms such as long and short, and the description of the K-line chart in the operation suggestions. Therefore, if you don't understand the terminology of precious metal trading, you can't really learn the initial knowledge of precious metal trading.