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- The speaker explains mark-to-market profits from a given amount of gold, using a simple example: 50 ounces of gold, gold rises by $1,000 per ounce, yielding $50,000 in profit; another $1,000 rise yields another $50,000, and so on. People think in terms of the thousand-dollar increments and the real money those increments represent.
- However, each $1,000 increment becomes easier to achieve as the price base rises, because the percentage gain shrinks. Example progression:
- From $2,000 to $3,000 per ounce: 50% gain.
- From $3,000 to $4,000 per ounce: 33% gain.
- From $4,000 to $5,000 per ounce: 25% gain.
- From $9,000 to $10,000 per ounce: 11% gain.
- From $19,000 to $20,000 per ounce: 4% gain.
- Thus, the same $50,000 profit corresponds to smaller percentage gains as the price rises. The point is that benchmarks at thousand-dollar steps get easier to reach over time, and the market can move to higher levels more quickly than people expect.
- The speaker notes that, while these benchmarks are real money and meaningful, the relative difficulty of achieving each increment decreases as the base price grows, implying faster potential moves to new high levels (e.g., reaching $20,000 an ounce) than audiences might anticipate.