Investors Strategies Change After a Black Swan Event

    QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, April 19, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A week after the recent Japan earthquake and tsunami, our auction sites which do not target Japan had some interesting sales to this country.

Several new buyers purchase black opals from $1,000 to $3,000 and two buyers bought large parcel lots of Perth mint Platinum coins.

Why such unusual purchases? Is this reaction to unstable times?

Japanese were forced to hand over gold in WW11 but not Platinum so did this affect their investor buying strategy?

My friends in Tokyo had water and whiskey to trade, not to drink, if conditions worsened with Fukushima nuclear plant.

If so it would be best to buy bottled water, whiskey, some silver and gold coins to trade and to keep in your house, just in case you are in one of these events.

Does your portfolio include 12 bottle of whiskey, 100 bottles of water, kilos of silver coins, ounces of gold coins?

Water is the essence of life.
Whiskey to trade for favours.
Silver coins are liquid to purchase or trade for perishable foods.
Gold coins could be used for trade in serious situations.

Why gold?
John Paulson earned $4.9bn in 2010 making him the top earning hedge fund manager in 2010. His largest position is in gold, specifically the SPDR Gold Trust a listed share that owns gold bullion.

Paulson believes that the price of gold could hit $2,400 based on monetary expansion by the Federal Reserve. With a target as high as $4,000 per ounce based on a projected overshoot.

Paulson has about $10bn of his own money invested in funds that are gold or securities linked to gold. The firm owns roughly 96 metric tons of gold.

He believes that gold offers the best currency with which to protect one's wealth.

Given his track record during the crisis and his performance last year, investors should follow this smart money.

Investors have purchased gem quality black opals and Ethiopian opals from OpalAuctions in last 30 days with four opals selling for $124,000 average $31,000 each and many sales $3,000 to $9,000.00.

Investors are adding gemstones to their portfolios but only quality gems.

Website: http://www.coins-auctioned.com/

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