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Expert knowledge,
made practical.

Financial education from people with real market experience, explained clearly and designed to be useful.

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Better understanding starts with better education.

Financial markets can be complicated, but learning about them should not be.

Inspired Publishing turns specialist financial knowledge into clear, practical education designed to help you understand what matters, recognise the risks and make more informed decisions.

Our current areas of expertise include gold and precious metals, where we help people understand how gold works, how it can be owned and the role it may play in a broader financial strategy.

Gold has a long record.
It also has long bad stretches.

Both of those things are true. Good financial education should help you understand the risks as clearly as the opportunities.

Gold price per troy ounce, 1970 to 2025 Gold, annual average price per troy ounce, 1970 to 2025. Shown on a ratio scale, where equal vertical distances are equal percentage moves. After its 1980 average of $608, gold fell 55 per cent and did not bottom until 2001. $50 $100 $250 $500 $1,000 $2,000 $4,000 $608 in 1980 $271 in 2001 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
Gold, annual average price per troy ounce, 1970 to 2025. Shown on a ratio scale, where equal vertical distances are equal percentage moves. After its 1980 average of $608, gold fell 55 per cent and did not bottom until 2001. Annual average, London bullion market. Source: datahub.io gold-prices.
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What an ounce of gold cost in 1970 against 2025, in dollars of the day.
−55%
How far it then fell from its 1980 average.
21 yrs
How long that fall lasted before 2001 marked the low.
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Institutional experience,
translated.

Tony Barassi brings years of professional experience across futures, options, derivatives and commodity markets.

During six years as a trader at Stifel Financial, Tony worked across institutional markets, using market structure, execution analytics and risk-management techniques in real trading environments.

At Inspired Publishing, he translates that experience into practical education — explaining not just what happens in markets, but why it happens and how risk should be considered.

Expertise you can understand.

You shouldn't need a trading background to follow a serious idea.

  1. Real experience

    Learn from specialists with practical experience in the markets they teach.

  2. Clear explanations

    Understand not just what happens, but the reasoning behind it.

  3. Risk in context

    Opportunity is only useful when you understand the risks that come with it.