1. A number of factors affect the gold pries and prominent among them are unstable global economic scenario, low interest rates, Weak equity markets, Central bank buying and depreciating Rupee.

2. It is no doubt that gold is a safe investment strategy but one can exit from gold for the time being now as investors would have had accrued sufficient returns from the gold. A detailed post understanding the art of making money from gold can be read and thus one can be on the path of making risk free money. Gold ETF can be another arena where one can enter to make money but at the correct opportune moment as buying a commodity at a correct price is very important.