Silver Editorials & Commentary

President Donald Trump recently took to Twitter to boast, “The U.S. has an increased economic value of more than 7 Trillion Dollars since the Election. May be the best economy in the history of our country. Record Jobs numbers. Nice!”

On Sunday 10 June 2018, Switzerland’s electorate voted on a referendum calling for the country’s commercial banks to be banned from creating money. In a country world-famous for its banking industry, this was quite an interesting turn of events.

The best performing metal this week was silver, up 2.24 percent. A majority of gold traders were either bullish or neutral on bullion this week after being mostly bullish last week due to political uncertainty in Europe, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey....

I have only one chart to show you, called the “History Chart of the End of the World,” which I  built out in 2013. I usually show this chart a couple of times a year just to keep the big picture in perspective. This long-term monthly chart shows all the earth...

Silver is on a major buy signal since early 2016. Major signals can last for months and years and are suitable for long-term investors. SLV is on short-term buy signal. Short term signals can last for days to weeks and are more suitable for traders.

Our equity/bond model - This long-term reliable investing model provides investors with simple decision making in the markets. When the model favors stocks, investors should overweigh in equities for maximum growth. When the model favors bonds, investors should ...

When I was a young lad, there was a classmate (let's call him "Frankie") in the very early years of my education whose behavior was quite often deemed as "peculiar" and while I found him immensely entertaining, the teaching staff and my fellow students did not...

Europe’s many fault lines are spreading once again, bringing the endless euro crisis saga back in 3-D realism. Italy gained a new anti-establishment government last week, even as Spain elected a new Socialista government that could crack Catalonia off from the rest...

Turning points in a financial system usually occur in discrete phases. At first, new information that contradicts existing preconceptions is dismissed as unimportant. But as more such data accumulates, a growing number of people come to expect the new trend to...

The silver market has become so quiet that you can hear a pin drop, a most unusual situation in this normally rather volatile metal. What this means is that there is a big move brewing…and probably sooner rather than later.

Looking back to my silver analysis from early march, silver indeed continued to move sideways for the last three months. The precious metal is still caught in a large consolidation. At least, silver was not much affected by gold´s recent plunge below 1,300 USD. ...

Silver has been money, and currency, longer than gold. The word “silver” actually translates to “money” or vice-versa in many countries around the world. Any true Christian knows that Judas sold out Jesus Christ for silver. Some theologians have reached the...

Now, I am not of that ilk personally. My closely held biases are that a) the market’s cycles can be interpreted and managed (although my bias also has led me astray at times, in my execution) and b) that the economy, and by extension the markets, are not normal; not...

Last week in my article, "A bottom in the crypto market, or more blood-letting?" I suggested that a bottom could be imminent, or that we had bottomed. I often look to our bellwethers, Bitcoin(BTC-USD) and Ethereum (ETH-USD), as signals for the larger crypto market...

It seems silver market manipulation is being noticed by, at least, one member of the House of Lords, Jeremy Lefroy. Mark Anthony Taylor, The Abstraction, who has been working behind the scenes and in public forums, has made some real progress and earlier today...

The total U.S. public debt hit a new record high of $21.145 trillion on the last day in May.  As the U.S. debt increased, so did the interest expense which jumped by more than $26 billion in the first seven months of the fiscal year.  That’s correct; the United...

The cause of the Great Recession circa 2008 was collapsing home prices that led to an insolvent banking system. However, the next economic crisis will result from the bursting of the worldwide bond bubble and its devastating effect on asset prices.

There are some big H&S bottoms on several of the US stock market indexes that I have maybe only shown you once around the time the necklines were broken. When I first discovered them I wasn’t sure they would play out so I just kept them on the back burner to see...

Our benchmark S&P500 is on a major buy signal. Oil sector is on a major sell signal. As long as VIX remains below 20 on a monthly close, it’s a correction within a bull market.

Silver is on a major buy signal since early 2016. SLV is on short term buy signal. COT data is favorable for overall higher prices.

This week, market watchers around the world are justifiably fixated with the high-stakes, high-drama political developments unfolding in Italy. While a political crisis in the world's 9th largest economy (International Monetary Fund figures, 4/17/18) would normally...

The major silver miners’ stocks remain deeply out of favor, languishing near multi-year lows. Of course that reflects investors’ lack of interest in silver itself. It has greatly lagged, not following gold higher like usual over the past year and a half. That’s...

No doubt you’re aware of the massive fraud uncovered at Theranos, the high tech medical startup purported to be able to run any number of diagnostic tests from a single drop of blood. Theranos was a Silicon Valley upstart valued at $10 billion at its peak and headed...

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but public trust in the federal government is eroding. Sixty years ago, 75 percent of Americans expressed faith in the government to do the right thing “most of the time” or “just about always.” Seventy-five percent! You can’t get 75...

After a fairly solid rally took place over the past few weeks in the US majors, fresh concerns originating from Italy roiled the markets early on Tuesday, May 29. The concern is really related to the formation of a coalition government in Italy and the excessive...

In my recent article, "Time for a Crypto Lunar Rocket Launch?" I stated that we have been tracking bullish 5-wave patterns off the April lows, and viewed most cryptocurrencies in wave-2 corrections or about to complete the impulse and enter wave 2s. However, some...

Our equity/bond model - This long-term reliable investing model provides investors with simple decision making in the markets: When the model favors stocks, investors should overweigh in equities for maximum growth. When the model favors bonds, investors should ...

Silver is on a major buy signal since early 2016. Major signals can last for months and years and are suitable for long-term investors.

The question I posed in the title of this article has been debated ad nauseum by market participants for decades.  While we clearly have “cycles” analysts who claim that the market can be timed, there are significantly more doubters than believers. 

Most of us are aware of the inflationary pressures in the major economies, which so far are proving somewhat latent in the non-financial sector. But some central banks are on the alert as well, notably the Federal Reserve Board, which has taken the lead in trying to...

Could the next recession be upon us? This video shows five startling pieces of evidence that add up to bad news for the US economy.

We still believe that Silver Investing In 2018 May Become Very Profitable. That is primarily because of the indicators that look super bullish in the Silver Market In 2018. Is now the time to enter? Well, the silver mining chart says to hold on a bit, and that is...

Here’s a new indicator for you: It seems that the difference between the price of oil here and abroad is a measure of tightness in the market, with a rising spread indicating higher prices in the future, with all the inflationary pressures that that implies. From...

A while ago, I wrote a couple of stories about how gold had come into my life at an early age. The first story was about my Swiss grandfather during WWII. The other one was an account of refugees from Cambodia that became friends of my family when I was in my teens...

The best performing metal this week was silver, down just 1.34 percent. Both gold and silver stabilized by Wednesday, after real yields surged about 9 basis points the first few days of the week, and then largely traded sideways the rest of the week. Despite the ...

In a blog post a week agoI discussed why silver’s Commitments of Traders (COT) situation was nowhere near as bullish as it had been portrayed in numerous articles over the preceding two months. This prompted some criticism that involves a misunderstanding of how I...

Ah, Italy. My people; fun to be around, a nightmare to govern. And now an existential threat to the European Union, the euro currency, and the global bond markets.

Since leaving my job as a corporate design manager to analyze and trade cryptos (among other things), I’ve gained new attention from old colleagues. In circles of my former profession, I’m the guy that retired to trade for a living. While my departure from corporate...

Silver is on a major buy signal since early 2016. Major signals can last for months and years and are suitable for long-term investors.

Our equity/bond model - This long-term reliable investing model provides investors with simple decision making in the markets: When the model favors stocks, investors should overweigh in equities for maximum growth. When the model favors bonds, investors should ...