How to trade the new gold bull market

While the price of gold has risen by 20% this year alone, gold stocks have gone nowhere. That creates opportunities for investors. Bengt Saelensminde explains why, and picks one ETF to buy now.

There's an anomaly with gold. Whilst the gold price has shot up 20% in 2011, gold stocks the guys that explore and mine the stuff have gone nowhere.

Today I want to take a look at why that is. I'll show you why I think gold stocks could be about to move into a bull market all of their own. And I'll show you a simple way you could trade it.

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Bengt graduated from Reading University in 1994 and followed up with a master's degree in business economics.

 

He started stock market investing at the age of 13, and this eventually led to a job in the City of London in 1995. He started on a bond desk at Cantor Fitzgerald and ended up running a desk at stockbroker's Cazenove.

 

Bengt left the City in 2000 to start up his own import and beauty products business which he still runs today.