The primary considerations when investing in gold are inflation and time. Time is the simpler to explain. Investing in gold is exactly that investing. One needs time to grow your portfolio to your desired capital goal. Inflation on the other hand is more complex but extremely important. Whilst inflation is the symptom of the cause it invariably has the impact of higher prices and hence reduces the purchasing power of your hard earned income. Another way of stating this is the devaluation of your currency. This is important to appreciate as the subtlety with which inflations erodes your purchasing power is reflected in your declining living standard And whilst this is generally understood as inflation it is more correctly defined as a taxes levied on you by your government to increase their fiscus. When understood in that context you begin to appreciate why governments focus on inflation. They do this through money printing. They print money to fund deficit spending. Deficit spending is caused by governments spending more than the tax income, aka the fiscus. With this being the principles upon which I will grow your wealth let us get to the 4 pillars of the strategy