I am clear on the GLD and SLV link with price manipulation, in that they are playing the old goldsmiths game and fractionally selling electronic metal that may or may not exist.
I visited the
Pan Asian Gold Exchange web-site, and they claim that they launched the exchange in February of 2011.
So here is my concern:
If PAGE is already open, then what effect is it having on the PM markets?
Certainly, both Au and Ag are up from February of this year, so can we attribute these relative price increases to PAGE, and if so, then the price discovery mechanism has already taken effect, and we should be relatively stabilized.
What am I missing here? The implication from the OP is that PAGE has yet to open, and that we will see physical metal price discovery (significantly higher physical prices) in the near future.
Is the long term plan to shift investment away from GLD and SLV and into PAGE? If so, then why not simply obtain physical PMs? Why should I trust PAGE any more than GLD and SLV?
Please clarify this for me.