There are four important factors, you should think about when trading metals, especially, trading gold and trading silver.
The first fundamental is the relationship between demand and supply current metals. If the demand is excess the supply, the metals price will go up and vice versa. So, you must keep track the moving on futures market to get information.
The second fundamental for the precious metal price would be low or negative interest rates. If the return on bonds, stocks, real estate and others derivatives is lower than the influence of inflation, the trend to buy gold and silver and others commodities futures like cotton commodity, oil futures, corn commodity…
Another fundamental is the status of the whole economic. In case, there are wars or invasion and serious inflation, investors will change channel investment into precious metals because people are fear that it is safer than other assets. It can easily exchange into other currencies.
The fourth fundamental- the last one is the strength of the USD. As we know, US is famous as the home of gold in the world, so if the US currency is weaken than other major currencies, investor will chase to buy gold.
In conclusion, these above fundamentals are very necessary for who attend to invest in metals commodities. This investment can give many profits and take your money out also. therefore, you should consider all factors can affect your business. Trading in futures and options involves in substantial risk of loss and good chances.