{"id":12456,"date":"2025-01-17T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/david-erfle-cash-position-never-larger-chaos-and-volatility-ahead\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:13:52","slug":"david-erfle-cash-position-never-larger-chaos-and-volatility-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/david-erfle-cash-position-never-larger-chaos-and-volatility-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"David Erfle: Cash Position Never Larger, Chaos and Volatility Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>For Erfle, interest from generalist investors is the key missing ingredient, but it may finally return this year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s what we need \u2014 we need to get that generalist investor interest back into this sector. They left in 2012, 2013 and they haven&#8217;t returned,&#8217; he explained during the conversation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s created this incredible opportunity in gold stocks, and especially in juniors. We&#8217;ve got a lot of them that are bifurcating higher and doing well, but most are still underowned and definitely being ignored by the generalist investor.&#8217; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Even so, Erfle suggested that market participants be cautious in 2025.<\/p>\n<p> &#8216;Be very careful this year in this market. Build up some cash, have some physical gold, have some junk silver just in case,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Personally, as far as my investments are concerned &#8230; I&#8217;ve never had a cash position this large before, because I&#8217;m really concerned about the volatility and the chaos that I think 2025 is going to bring.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview for more of his thoughts on gold and silver.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Securities Disclosure: I, Charlotte McLeod, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on investingnews.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Erfle, interest from generalist investors is the key missing ingredient, but it may finally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}