Along with the gold price itself, precious metal stocks have risen substantially over the last year. One proxy of gold and silver is the PHLX (Philadelphia) Gold Silver Index known as XAU (INDEXNASDAQ: XAU). This is a capitalization weighted index
Silver And Gold: A Ratio Between Two Precious Metals
Burl Ives sang the song Silver and Gold and asked how do you measure its worth? We don’t know the answer on an absolute basis, but we can assay the relative worth by using, among other things, a ratio between
Cap Weighted vs. Equal Weighted
Can you beat the S&P 500 by using the S&P 500? It may be possible over time with an equal weight S&P 500 strategy, rather than with the more familiar cap weighted strategy you find with, for example, the well-known