As a longer-term investment products, trading and holding physical precious metals in recent years, individual investors are very popular.
For shorter-term investments, derivatives transactions and exchanges related contracts is a more simple, lower trade barriers, which allows you to lower price volatility in capital investment to grasp the opportunity.
· Up to 400: 1 leverage
· Speculation, hedging, portfolio risk diversification
· Can do more, but also short; support for multiple currencies, such as the dollar, Australian dollar, British pound and the euro
· Rapid flow is affected by many factors, it can be considered an alternative to foreign exchange trading products
Gold:
Gold, unlike most commodities, it is not by the level of production and consumption dominate - by far the majority of gold mines can continue mining, and can re-enter the gold market.
Thus, the price of gold tends to be swayed by political events, become turbulent times a hedging tool.
Silver:
Silver as a precious metal, an irreplaceable feature in large-scale industrial applications and making jewelry, silver products on.
Due to being widely used in the electronics industry and used as a photosensitive material, its price is more volatile compared to many other metals.