I’m long past “hip” these days. Investing, chasing has never been something I’m any good at. In fact I’ve always been horrible. If I was trying to do what you are doing I’d already have lost all my money, easily. Just don’t have the mental capacity for it. Envy those who do though.
My best investments have always been in businesses and people. I’m actually pretty close to dumping most of my pm’s and buying a piece of the company my wife works for. Then pm’s will be free to go to the moon.
Silverngold – yeah, I suppose when “they” decide to let pm’s rise is when they’ll finally rise. I’m having a hard time seeing why they’d do that though. When you have the power to print unlimited amounts of fiat, what’s the incentive? PM’s do appear to be an outdated investment at this point in time. Hopefully that will change but it has been a brutal six years of wasted time and money.