“Just give me bars, eff the rest”
You have come around to the frustrating realization I made years back…. the paper game is completely ‘controlled’, as is the commodity price.
The whole damn ‘system’ will have to collapse to free up prices… but the flip side is that with such a collapse, your brokerage will likely close it’s shop and you will not get any money out. What? You still own the stocks that maybe you could sell?? Wrong!
The Depository Trust Corp. owns the stocks… ALL of them. YOU only own a paper IOU… and it just burned.
Stacking physical in your personal possession is the only sane choice. Paper? You are only fooling yourself.