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Notes on metals, markets, and doing this properly.
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- Buying & Pricing12 min
How to Sell Gold Bars: Pricing, Process and Payment
Learn how to sell gold bars through Dormy, from preparing your holding and understanding pricing to testing, a written quote and trade confirmation.
October 2, 2026
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- Market Notes8 min
Platinum vs Palladium for Investors: Prices, Supply and Risk
Platinum vs palladium compared with USGS price data from 2016 to 2025, supply by country, uses, volatility and IRA purity rules. No forecasts.
September 29, 2026
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- Market Notes8 min
Is Platinum a Good Investment? What the Data Shows
Is platinum a good investment? USGS supply data, WPIC's 2026 surplus forecast, IRA rules from the statute, and the risks, with no price predictions.
September 28, 2026
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- Gold IRA7 min
Gold IRA for the Self-Employed: SEP and SIMPLE IRA Options
How self-employed savers can hold physical gold in a SEP or SIMPLE IRA: 2026 IRS limits, the Publication 560 calculation, the two-year rule and custody.
September 27, 2026
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- Storage & Ownership13 min
Physical Gold vs. Gold ETFs: Who Owns the Metal
Allocated bullion, unallocated programs and physically backed gold ETFs compared: what you own, how each is sold, costs, tax and behavior under market stress.
September 25, 2026
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- Market Notes12 min
How to Verify a Gold Bar Is Real
Serial numbers, assay cards, physical tests, Good Delivery and the chain of integrity: what each proves about a gold bar, and what it does not.
September 23, 2026
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- Gold IRA7 min
Gold IRA pros and cons: an honest accounting.
A genuinely two-sided look at what a Gold IRA adds, what it costs, where it creates friction, and who the account does and does not fit.
September 23, 2026
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- Buying & Pricing6 min
Can Fidelity or Schwab hold physical gold?
Why a securities account cannot custody bullion, what Fidelity and Schwab publish about gold exposure, and how an ETF share differs from metal you own.
September 22, 2026
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- Buying & Pricing9 min
Gold IRA or buying gold outright: the real difference.
Custody, purity rules, contribution limits, tax at sale, required distributions and liquidity compared with IRS sources, plus the truth about home-storage claims.
September 21, 2026
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- Market Notes10 min
Silver industrial demand, read honestly.
What industrial silver demand consists of, how solar thrifting cuts against the demand story, and why a reported supply deficit is not a price forecast.
September 21, 2026
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- Buying & Pricing10 min
The gold-silver ratio, explained without the trading pitch.
What the gold-silver ratio measures, how its history should be read, and how it can inform a gold-versus-silver allocation without becoming a timing signal.
September 21, 2026
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- Gold IRA7 min
Gold IRA custodian fees: what you actually pay each year.
Setup, annual administration, storage, insurance and transaction fees, how the schedules are structured, which costs get left out of the first conversation, and the questions that surface the total.
August 16, 2026
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- Storage & Ownership6 min
How much gold can you own?
There is no legal limit on how much gold a U.S. person can own. What matters in practice is where it is stored, how it is insured, and how easily it sells.
August 16, 2026
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- Gold IRA7 min
Gold IRA scams: nine red flags to check before you buy.
Nine gold IRA scam red flags from CFTC, FINRA and Tax Court sources, with the question that exposes each one before you move retirement money.
August 16, 2026
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- Gold IRA5 min
How much do you need to start a Gold IRA?
The typical minimums, why they exist, and the fixed-fee math that governs whether a small account actually makes sense.
August 16, 2026
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- Buying & Pricing6 min
Bars or coins? How buyers actually decide.
Premiums, divisibility, resale liquidity, IRA eligibility, and storage, the trade-offs behind the two most common questions.
August 16, 2026
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- Storage & Ownership6 min
The 'home storage Gold IRA', what the rules actually say.
Why IRS rules require a qualified custodian and approved depository for IRA metals, and the documented risks of the checkbook-LLC pitch.
August 16, 2026
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