Eric Dutram: Gold made a strong start this year, but it has been sliding for the last four months, due to a combination of various factors. However, if we look at the longer term, for the last eleven years, gold has been gaining popularity and seeing regular price increases. Read more…

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Christian Magoon: Time to Short Gold Prices (NYSEARCA:GLD)? With gold prices on the decline, many investors are beginning to short gold as a way to profit from this trend. Over the last month a variety of short gold products have produced double digit returns. Read more…

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Christian Magoon: Gold is getting hammered – first by the crushed hopes for QE3 in late February and now by the EU debt crisis and weakening economies within India and China. These factors combined this week to push traditional gold ETFs into negative territory for 2012. Read more…

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