With a forex platform, it has become very easy to invest in gold electronically using the same mechanism that one employs to invest in currency pairs. Almost all platforms today offer the pair XAU/USD, and the only restriction is that gold can only be traded with respect to the US dollar, because gold trading is priced in US dollars as is trading in oil. For example, some exchanges do limit the amount of time one can remain in a trade and the trading times for the use of this pair according to some limitations imposed by the London Gold Exchange, which is the where the world’s gold gets...
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