Product - Gold

Gold has been always providing with the natural function of money equivalent. In 1998, the Korea and Thai Governments paid their debts with the gold donated by their people, thus pulling through the Asian Financial Crisis; furthermore, gold is the fifth international trading currency following USD, EUR, GBP, and JPY.

As time goes by, the monetary attribute of gold has been changing all the time. The legal price of gold was 35 US dollars per ounce according to the Bretton Currency System established during the Second World War, while it has increased to nearly 1,000 US dollars per ounce since the 21st century, from which we can see that gold may effectively resist the risk of politics, economy and finance. At present, more attention will be paid to the investment value of gold since USD continues to depreciate and global economy faces recession. Both spot trading and margin trade of gold on hand are available in global market.

Margin trade of gold refers to that market participants just need to pay the price of certain proportion according to the trade volume as performance bond of delivery of gold in place of full-payment of the gold to be traded. Trade with margin can not only availably increase the funds service efficiency of customers but also avoid incommodity during the assay, delivery and storage related to gold.

In 2006, ARA Markets increased its investment variety with spot gold, and we adopted the means of margin trading.