You have to understand, what goes up must come down. This is true with gravity. This is true with the physical world and this is definitely true with financial markets. You don’t have to be a genius to figure this out. When you look at the US stock market during its complete lifetime, you would see key patterns where the market increases then it corrects itself. This is a predictable pattern. This is not any different from watching the tides roll in. This is not much different from watching waves at a beach. While the certainty of market corrections is a slam dunk, the timing such corrections is trickier. If people can predictably time when the market is going to correct itself, then the market would be filled with billionaires. The truth is nobody knows, and this is precisely why the stock market is so lucrative. After all, with lots of risk, you get lots of rewards. The good news is that you don’t have to play the market completely unprotected. By investing in precious metals like silver coins, you can ensure that whatever correction the market goes through, you would be in a fairly safe place. Remember in a market correction your financial health is comparative. If you think you’ve lost some of your wealth, consider yourself lucky. If you compare yourself to others who lost it all, it’s really all relative. By positioning your assets in such a way, you can actually benefit from market corrections. There are certain investments you can get into that cannot only help you weather sharp downturns in the market but can also position you in such a way that you can make money of such downturns. Silver coins provide such protection. Keep reading below to find out why.
The Benefits of Investing in Silver
Silver’s Historic Role as a Store of Value
Unlike paper money which only has a value because the US government says it has value, precious metal by themselves has value. You only need to walk down the street and flash a piece of silver or a piece of gold and people would naturally be attracted to it. If you leave a piece of silver or a piece of gold on the street chances are it will be gone when you get back to it. That’s how powerful the historic role of silver is as a store of value. It is a measure of value. The same cannot be said with a blank piece of paper. If you put a colored blank piece of paper on the street chances are nobody would pick it up. It’s just a piece of paper. The reality is that the US dollar and other Fiat currencies are basically blank pieces of paper. The only writing on them that gives them value is that there is a guarantee by a government that that piece of paper has value. Once people lose trust in the government backing up that paper. That piece of paper goes back to being a worthless piece of paper. The same cannot be said of precious metals like silver coins.