If you want to hear my opinion on the best ways of earning money nowadays, it is quite short and simple. Anything you do and every single deal you make with somebody needs to have a confirmation in writing. I do not play with some stupid online trades - I don"t believe that the person sitting kilometers away from me, in his own room behind his own desk and in front of his own computer has any interest in being honest with me. I am sorry but I prefer to do business in real life. Believing somebody who is far away from me doesn"t always pay off. Even when talking about the so called offline business undertakings, problems also occur. Last week my friend wanted to convert his certificate of gold price per gram ownership into money and he faced several obstacles, the outcome of which was no money for the bullion bars he previously bought the certificate for. They said they had a problem with the certificate, possibly also a bug in their system and it is now impossible to pay out the due sum to him. Several ounces of gold bullion is more than you can imagine. Gold bullion is very precious and it is clear that the process of taking it all back will be long and complicated. I would never do anything like that... I would like to have the bullion bars physically by me, not just a stupid piece of paper called a certificate.