Despite the complexity of REITs, the securities are readily available and
easily tradable — attributes not usually associated with real estate investing.
The MSCI EM index imposes filters for scalability and replicability in pursuit of an index that's
easily tradable by major investors.
With
easily tradable paper versions of gold, it is less clear, because you would need to analyze the actual assets.
My hypothesis at this point in time is that
easily tradable products based on gold encouraged speculative pressure, leading the price of gold to overshoot, and now it is correcting.
Neither are going to break the bank this offseason, and unless they fall badly (or have a shit - ton of weddings this offseason) a contract in the 4 - 5 year $ 4.5 - $ 5M contract range will be
easily tradable.
More importantly, they specialize in commodities that are not
easily tradable (like hogs or copper), and therefore their share prices tend to match rare earth prices very closely because investors use them as a tool.
Not exact matches
But should an electronic version of the next, say, Infinite Jest or even Fifty Shades of Grey really just be this singular, quantifiable consumer item that's
tradable, ownable, and
easily stored?
Tokenization means that a value is translated into a
tradable and
easily transferrable digital format, a token.