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	A two way market place in which investors can sell or buy both gold and silver. Market makers mainly quote prices in US dollars per troy ounce for spot and forward delivery. Forward prices and options quoted by market makers enable producers and industrial consumers to hedge their future commitments and provide access for investors and speculators.

	The metals market is one of the most growing financial markets, investors seeks opportunities to gain some return of investment from the volatility of prices of this market, in addition to the fact that gold and silver is the only safe way out when the currencies are facing economical risks, investors tend to enter the precious metals market when the value of the currencies seems to be declining.

	Investing in precious metals can be done either by purchasing the physical asset, or by trading on the spot market quoted by market makers. And when we say precious metals we refer to the valuable metals such as gold, iridium, palladium, platinum and silver.

	One important term you should know about that metals market and especially on the most traded product in this market…gold, this term is the Gold fix is the process of setting gold prices, twice a day, by the five members of the London gold pool. This rate is used as a benchmark for pricing the majority of global gold products and derivatives.

	The London gold pool sets the price of gold based upon basic economics of supply and demand. The world then uses these prices to determine the price of bullion and gold related products.

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