Q: Strong Chinese physical demand for gold didn’t stop gold’s fall in 2013. Why did gold fall so hard in 2013?
Jim Rogers : One, we had an anomaly in the gold market. Gold
went up 12 years in a row, which is very strange and unusual for any
market. When the correction came, it too was an anomaly. At the same
time, the Indians – who were the largest buyers of gold in the world –
Indian politicians started blaming their problems on gold. So they took
many measures to cut back their demand for gold, successfully.
Gold is still going down. India was a much bigger buyer than anyone
else – so obviously when you take out demand from the largest buyer of
anything, it causes a correction. That’s what been happening. Nothing
unusual about it.
At the same time, many speculators and investors were cutting back
after the 12-year bull market. That plus the Indians overwhelmed Chinese
demand.
I still am not buying gold in any big way yet, because there are
still too many mystics, too many people who think that gold is holy. I
don’t see how the markets can make a bottom until a lot of those mystics
get shaken out of the market. Once they throw in the towel, then gold
will make a significant bottom, and I hope I’ll be buying a lot more at
that time. -
in IBTimes
Jim Rogers started trading the stock market with $600 in 1968.In 1973 he formed the Quantum Fund with the legendary investor George Soros before retiring, a multi millionaire at the age of 37. Rogers and Soros helped steer the fund to a miraculous 4,200% return over the 10 year span of the fund while the S&P 500 returned just 47%.