Analysis
Widely repeated investment rules, applied exactly as stated to decades of real prices and measured against the one strategy that takes even less effort: doing nothing.
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Buy gold on 1 August, sell it on 1 March: thirty-six years put to the test
A simple and often repeated rule: gold is said to rise from summer through winter and to go nowhere the rest of the year. We applied it exactly as stated to thirty-six cycles, from 1990 to 2026, and measured it against the only strategy that takes even less effort — buying once and never touching it again.