Sep 26 2009

What is Gold ETF?

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Introduction

If you are lokking into the gold market closely, you will notice that the gold prices always goes up. It may come down for some time but agian will go to the new highest point. According to the statistics, India is the largest consumer for the precious yellow metal Gold. That is the reason gold market is always doing good in India. This article explores few basic idea on how to trade the gold as like in the share market. That is called as Gold Exchange Traded Fund(ETF). It will be useful for the investors who want the highest returns for their investment. Please post the doubts in comments section. You can subscribe to our future articles here.

What is Gold ETF?

It is same like you are trading the shares in the stock market, you will be trading the gold using the demat account in online. Instead of buying the physical gold, you will be buying the gold in papers.

To trade gold ETF, you must have an demat account. How you are buying the shares, in the same way you will buy the gold in units. For example, if you are investing Rs.20000, then the gold will be alloted in units for Rs.20000. Here each unit represents one gram of gold. It will be alloted in the current market value of the gold.

In the current scenario, gold ETFs are considered as one of the most profitable investment because the prices of the gold is increasing drasitally.

Summary

This article explained the basic idea on what is gold ETF. But, it doesn’t explain much about the advantags and why one has to choose the gold ETF. I will be writing more about gold ETFs in the next week. Please keep watching our blogs to read more news. If you have any doubts please post it in the comments section.

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  1. List of Gold ETFs wrote:

    [...] week I have written an article about the gold ETF and explained the basic concepts on the gold ETF. There is growing interest on the gold ETF [...]

    September 27th, 2009 at 12:00 am

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