The Real Cost of Trying to Time the Gold Market

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Should you wait for a pullback before buying gold — or just buy now?

In this video, Alan Hibbard breaks down the real cost of trying to time the gold market using 56 years of data. The results are striking: missing just gold’s single best day each year drops your annualized return from 9.1% to under 4%. Miss the top two days? You’re basically flat over five decades.

Even more surprising — gold’s biggest up days and biggest down days tend to cluster within the same week, making market timing nearly impossible in practice. If you want gold’s full long-term return, the data points to one clear strategy: buy, hold, and stay invested.
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