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To: Tommaso who wrote (43123)	11/8/2011 7:55:56 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (2) of 71454

FWIW, the negative yield trap applies to all consumed commodities except gold. It's a major flaw of any commodity futures based fund, making these unattractive as investments. Essentially you are buying an inflation-protected bond with a significant negative yield. Unless things go truly haywire with inflation, gold is better? You can certainly invest in commodity producers, but that's as far as I would go. I would not touch any commodity futures ETF, except for trading. Take a look at a long term chart for this, for example, and fluid is easier to store than gas. google.com And compare it with this: ycharts.com

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