thisisallen wrote:@ochotona. I just noticed your post count is "1200." Hope that will be a good omen for you. If it goes to 1200 I would also be a buyer.
Ha!
1200 is also one of those nice numbers that gets me trying to calculate how many gold 1oz coins my house cost, and how many it would cost to buy it
today. I like to do those calculations when I'm out walking.
I guess ochotona can start thinking in terms of bars.
Some more blathering:
Lately, I have the urge to unload all my taxable account's gold ETFs and immediately replace them with coins.
I can't really make use of tax loss harvesting, or I suppose I'd do it now.
I'm sure there's some reason why this swap is weird or stupid, but I think I want coins in taxable and ETFs in my Roth.
Maybe someday, this Australian storage could be more appealing but for now, I just think that if anything happens to me, my wife or parents can just go to the bank and retrieve my coins. When I'm twice the age I am now, I'll probably have dementia, and I doubt my wife will want to chase down foreign-held accounts. It's a pain to just try to get her to invest!
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