Did everyone who bought gold in 2026 regret it?

Just today (June 12), international gold prices are about to reach $4,200 per ounce.
Looking back from June 2026, that crazy January at the beginning of the year feels like a collective hallucination. At that time, London spot gold finally settled at a historic high of $5,608.35 per ounce.
Yes, a record high, because this price was absolutely unprecedented. Back then, discussions in the streets and alleys were no longer about stocks or real estate, but about grams and purity.
At that moment, people buying gold did not feel fear; instead, they had a confidence that they had secured a ticket to the “Noah’s Ark” door.
But oh, the “Noah’s Ark” ticket seemed to be just a fleeting bloom, collapsing so violently that it caught the world off guard.
As of June 10, 2026, gold prices had fallen back to around $4,000, nearly 30% below the peak.

Did everyone who bought gold in 2026 regret it?
It depends on when, where, and for what purpose they bought.
If you started dollar-cost averaging into gold in 2021, even after experiencing the big drop in 2026, you would still remain calm because your average cost was around $2,500.
The current fluctuations are just a profit retracement for you, not a loss of capital.
Because for people like this, gold is just something to “leave untouched,” similar to a savings account.
Who regrets? Those who bought at high prices and still believe gold prices will rise further.
At that time, everyone was shouting “Gold will always go up,” rushing in blindly, only to get “trapped.”
Have you noticed? The regretful ones are all “speculating,” while the unregretful are “holding,” or rather, “saving.”
Now, let’s look across five years to see if the rise in gold was just a coincidence.

The answer upfront: of course not!
Since 2021, every movement in international gold prices has been driven by external factors.
Second, the logic behind gold price changes has shifted four times, and each shift has eliminated a group of people.
2021-2022 marked the first awakening after the pandemic, driven by U.S. inflation expectations.
During the pandemic, the Federal Reserve flooded the market with money, and the simple logic for buying gold was: more money printing means prices will rise.
At that time, gold gradually climbed from 1,680 to 2,070, a 23% increase.
2023-2024 saw the collapse of banks, with geopolitical factors acting as external drivers.
In March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank failed. Then came Credit Suisse, First Republic Bank… one after another.
Meanwhile, geopolitical tensions escalated, and safe-haven demand surged. Gold rose from 1,810 to nearly 2,700, an almost 50% increase.
2025 was marked by global central banks frantically “stockpiling gold.”
The biggest change that year was that major central banks around the world started buying gold—not just a little, but hundreds of tons each month.
This was because the dollar system had cracks, so gold surged from 2,600 to 4,500.
The main buyers weren’t you and me, but the central banks of various countries.
By 2026, things became very strange.
Gold had already reached 4,000, everyone who wanted to buy had bought, ETF outflows were happening, and central banks were still buying but at a slower pace.
According to normal logic, gold prices should have fallen.
But they didn’t fall—instead, they kept rising, from 4,000 to 5,600.
Why?
You can understand it as global energy being “bottlenecked,” which would push U.S. inflation higher, but this would force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates—something they couldn’t do.
In simple terms, gold isn’t worth 5,600; it’s just being pushed there.
This is “valuation reversion”—the price has diverged from its intrinsic value, but the market doesn’t care because there are no alternatives.
The five-year trend clearly shows a path from “safe-haven asset” to “ultimate refuge.”
Every leap in gold price is essentially a vote of no confidence in the current monetary system.
Returning to the question in the headline: whether those who bought gold in 2026 regret it depends on their original intention when buying.
Because the word “regret” is often linked to “expectation.”
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