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Exclusive articles about gold, silver, oil and investing in Gulf markets.
Dollar-Cost Averaging Into Gold: How Buying Monthly Works
How buying gold with a fixed sum each month works, why your average cost per gram ends up below the average price, and how premiums eat into small purchases.
Is There a Best Time to Buy Gold? Seasons, Weekends and Offers
No one can promise perfect timing, but knowing the demand seasons, how weekends affect prices and how making-charge offers work helps you buy gold at a fair price.
How to Calculate Your Gold Profit or Loss, with Worked Examples
Work out your real gold profit or loss: the full cost with making charges and VAT, the actual resale value and your break-even price, with two UAE examples.
Gold Bid-Ask Spread Explained: Why You Sell for Less Than You Pay
Why does a dealer buy your gold for less than he sells it? The bid-ask spread explained: what widens it, how to work out your round-trip cost and how to cut it.
Buying Gold Online Safely: Seller Checks, Payment and Delivery
How to verify an online gold seller, check the price against the live rate, pay safely and receive insured delivery, with red flags and a checklist.
Common Gold Scams and How to Protect Yourself
From gold-plated jewellery and tungsten-filled bars to fake websites and bogus investment schemes: how gold scams work and what to do if you are targeted.
How to Store Gold Safely: Home Safe, Bank Box or Vault?
A practical comparison of a home safe, a bank safe deposit box and a specialist vault, with tips on insurance, records and discretion to protect your gold.
Gold Jewellery Care: How to Clean, Store and Protect Your Pieces
How to clean gold jewellery safely at home, what scratches or dulls it, how to look after white gold, rose gold and gem-set pieces, and when to see a jeweller.
White Gold and Rose Gold Explained: Alloys, Karats and Value
What gives white and rose gold their colour, which karats they come in, why the gram price follows the gold content, and what to know about resale and nickel allergy.
Wedding Gold in the Gulf: A Practical Buying Guide
A practical guide to wedding gold in the Gulf: shabka and mahr, budgeting by weight, choosing karats, timing purchases, invoices, insurance and resale value.
Gold Gifts for Newborns, Eid, Graduations and Weddings
How to choose a gold gift for a newborn, Eid, a graduation or a wedding: small bar or jewellery, which karat, budgeting by weight, receipts and engraving.
GCC Currency Pegs Explained: What They Mean for Gold Prices
How the dirham, riyal and other Gulf currencies are pegged to the US dollar, why the Gulf pegs, and what it means for local gold prices and interest rates.
About these articles
Practical guides in plain language to help you understand gold, silver and oil prices in the Gulf: how prices are calculated, karats, making charges and tax, zakat, and buying and selling tips. Content is educational and is not investment advice.