Should You Invest In Gold?

I am joined by Jeremy Mullin, the Editor of Zacks Counterstrike, which is both a long and short trading portfolio, to discuss the hottest investment of 2016: Gold!

Audio Length: 00:19:28

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Who would have thought the yellow metal would make a resurgence?

The Gold ETF (GLD - ETF report) is up 20% year to date but that is nothing compared to some of the gold mining ETFs.

The Gold Miners Triple ETF (NUGT - ETF report) is up over 300% year-to-date.

The Junior Gold Miners Triple ETF (JNUG - ETF report) is up over 400%.

Even the basic Gold Miner ETF (GDX - ETF report) is up 84% this year. Check out the 6 month chart for all three of these. You can see them just take off in 2016.

Those are incredible returns.



What’s driving this latest gold rush?

We drill down into the reasons including:

1. The fear trade

2. That negative bond yields worldwide are forcing investors to look elsewhere for returns

What if you think this latest rally isn’t going to hold?

Jeremy discusses ways to be short the gold rush including using the Gold Miners Bear 3X (DUST - ETF report) .

Should you be investing now, if you aren’t already in it? Or is it too late?

Disclosure: Tracey Ryniec is the Value Stock Strategist for Zacks.com. She is also the Editor of the  more

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