Wednesday, July 08, 2009

More On Gold Investing In Malaysia

Got the following comment posted in the posting Investing Or Trading In Gold In Malaysia



  • JCK said...

    1/12/2008 Rm3,119 USD780
    24/2/2009 RM3,713 USD980

    Thats a 19% gain over 3 months....none too shabby et al....
JCK,

19%?

Firstly, I did NOT pick and chose the date. In the posting
Did I Regret Not Buying Kijang Coins Back In December?, I had chosen 2nd December 2008 for a special reason and the reason was that I had actually chatted about the price of the Kijang coins on a chatbox with a random friend.

And 6 months later on 04 June 2009, I visited this very issue.

Hence what I wrote was NOT based on hindsight.

Hindsight is such a nice thing to have.

For example, from the chart below, around end Feb 2009, everyone could have seen that GOLD hit a high.




Using that point of time would have been easy.

Now I am not sure if my source of data is flawed but it would appear to me that the price of gold in MYR is not as you had posted.

Here is the snapshot of what I have.

And as you can see, the price of gold in MYR was only 3496.00. (If this figure is wrong, do show me why and how. :D )

And this is chart only reflects the selling price of gold. And as mentioned in the posting Investing Or Trading In Gold In Malaysia, there is a price differential when one buys and sells Kijang coins. To sell the Kijang coin back to the bank, this would see the seller lose around 3%, which works out to around 3391.00.

Which works out to a gain of 272.00 or just 8%.

Which is not too shabby as I had mentioned - but not as impressive as your 19% in 3 months!

Of course, if my data or calculations is flawed, I apologise and would be more than happy if you could show me how and where you get your data.

---------------------------------------

DISCLAIMER!

It would appear that my data of GOLD in MYR as at 24th Feb 2009 is FLAWED!!

Sorry I made the mistake.

The correct data should be 3713.00.

7 comments:

  1. Okie sir,

    Heres the past data on kijang prices.

    From Manco Negara

    http://www.bnm.gov.my/index.php?ch=12&pg=141

    ReplyDelete
  2. LOL!

    It would appear that my source of data is flawed.

    My source of data:

    My chart is from:

    http://www.forex.pk/bullion.php?send=Y&base=MYR&curr=XAU&interval=180&type=ounce

    And this is where I checked the Kijang prices.

    http://www.maybank2u.com.my/mbb_info/m2u/public/treasuryRates.do?chCatId=/mbb/Personal/INV-Investment&programId=INV03-Gold&cntTypeId=0&cntKey=INV03.03

    Sorry but I would prefer the 6 months review (lucky I took the Kijang prices from Maybank's website) versus your 'chosen' time frame.

    ReplyDelete
  3. i was just showing how one could have traded in this time frame.

    The high of pOG in USD in this time was $1008.

    i sold at those prices i showed on the way down.....but at the high in MYR. Lucky me! :)

    Now we can trade on the NYSE through gold ETF (GLD) less expenses. Only trading fee approx 0.15%

    ReplyDelete
  4. btw thanks for pointing out your source of information and thanks for pointing out the flaw in my data source.

    ReplyDelete
  5. LOL!

    On hindsight.... everyone is super good!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Let's not talk hindsight. :D

    Now would you consider that 2 Dec 2008 to be a good/decent entry for one to buy Kijang coins?

    Just assumed one bought.

    Let's do a review on 2nd Dec 2009.

    See what happens to the value of Kijang coins then.

    ReplyDelete
  7. " Let's do a review on 2nd Dec 2009.

    See what happens to the value of Kijang coins then."

    Yes

    That would be interesting.

    ReplyDelete