Silver Editorials & Commentary

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.

Silver has been dead money over the past year or so, relentlessly grinding sideways to lower.  That weak price action has naturally left this classic alternative investment deeply out of favor.  Silver is extremely undervalued relative to gold, while speculators’...

With the open interest in Comex silver blowing out to a new alltime high yesterday, we thought it best to discuss again what this indicates and what it doesn't. As of yesterday's Comex close, the total open interest in Comex silver is at an all-time high of 241,135...

Just two mines supply the United States with half of its silver production, and both are located in Alaska.  It’s quite amazing that Alaska now produces half of the silver for the U.S. when only 30 years ago total mine supply from the state was less than 50,000 oz...

While we still await the crypto bottom, I want to start this week's article off with a personal narrative. I owe my current working life to ethereum. In 2016, I was a practicing design strategist for Samsung while trading as a hobby. In fact, I had already been...

WHAT: 65% Drop In The Stock Market. WHEN: More on that a bit later. WHY: Let me share the 5-part fact pattern...

Our research team at Technical Traders Ltd. has been hard at work trying to identify if this recent downside price move is more concerning or just a rotational move.  The recent global news regarding the US/China trade tariffs as well as the fallout that started...

After rallying on Friday, stocks tanked on Monday, dropping over 450 points. In fact, it was the worst first day of the second quarter since the Great Depression.

As the BLOOD continues to run on Wall Street, gold and silver were the few trading in the green today.  As I have mentioned in past articles and interviews, investors need to get used to this sort of trading activity.  Even though the Dow Jones Index ended off its...

Financial crises tend to start at the periphery and work their way into a system’s core. Think subprime mortgages (a tiny little niche of a few hundred billion dollars) that blew up in 2007 and nearly brought the curtain down on the whole show.

Here in Texas you know spring is here when our state flower, the bluebonnet, pops up everywhere. I was at the Masters in Augusta last year, and the azaleas were beautiful. But they are cultivated and take a lot of work to bring out their beauty.

The silver miners’ stocks have really languished since mid-2016, relentlessly grinding sideways to lower. With gold out of favor, silver and its miners have largely been left for dead and forgotten. This sector is deeply mired in universal apathy and bearishness....

While silver investment demand is totally off the radar, certain indicators, including the Gold-Silver ratio, suggest that interest in the poor man’s gold will likely increase significantly over the next few years.  The rising interest in silver will also occur as...

Oil sector is on a major sell signal. Investors should wait for the next major buy signal. VIX is bouncing off the all time low, suggesting volatility is increasing. 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.

Back in the 1990s, critics of the dot-com bubble used to point out that the global economy depended on the US stock market and the US stock market depended on, like, ten Internet stocks with negative aggregate earnings. The resulting inverted financial pyramid was,...

Here are their exposure rules you should know: Silver demand increases every year and will push prices higher. Our modern world depends upon electronics, computers, missiles, fighter jets, cruise missiles, technology, communication devices and more. Each new...

There has been a lot of talk lately about the bullish internals of COMEX silver, and rightfully so! The size of the Speculator net short position is the largest in two decades, and this is a decidedly bullish indicator.

Let's start by making sure we understand the terminology we will be using in our discussion today. Too many times I hear people use these terms in the wrong and often confusing context.

Has silver's time finally arrived? This week Mike Maloney links to several pieces of news and data that show a massive shift in the silver market, as well as a gigantic nail in the coffin for the US Dollar Standard

The silver futures Commitment of Traders (COT) report released last Friday was extremely positive and has most silver analysts calling for higher silver prices in the near term.

Would it be that a picture is worth a thousand words? In the case of the graphics posted below, in a word, yes! Look at the positioning of the mighty Commercial Traders, who rarely lose money and who operate under the blinded eye of regulatory oversight and...

Movies can have quite predictable plot lines that we know in advance - but we love them anyway. It could be a romance, where the girl is going to end up with the right guy through a series of improbable events, even though that looks impossible to begin with. It...

If the latest COT report for silver gets any more bullish than the one released on March 23rd, commercial traders will have to go ‘net long!’ As it is, they reduced their ‘net short’ position to the lowest number in many years, down to just 4,000 contracts – barely...

Friday’s commitment of traders (COT) report for gold and silver offered more of the same. Which is to say the gold futures action was boring and the silver action was strange and exciting.

I had intended to post part III of my interest rate series, however market conditions dictate that I post views on the current market.  This market is now communicating that it is at high risk.  For two months now, I have been advocating a strategic retreat.  Head...

Oil sector is on a major sell signal. Investors should wait for the next major buy signal.

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.

Since my last "official" analysis on this site, Bitcoin indeed continued its way down and reached the "potential buying zone between 8,000 and 8,500 USD" two times (March 9th and March 11th). The expected but very fast bounce out of this zone made it back to 9,900...

Much has been written lately about the size and scope of JPMorgan's COMEX silver vault. We thought we'd add to that conversation today. First of all, some background.

The prevailing fiction pervading Wall Street right now is that economic growth is picking up in a sustainable fashion and that interest rates will merely rise slowly. Then, soon level off at historically low levels. In other words, they are selling a fairytale; and...

In my last article I stated that we had the potential for a lasting bottom in the crypto market, starting with a low in most coins on February 6th. However, in that article I also gave the conditions for that bottom to fail.

No doubt that the ten-year anniversary of the failure of the prominent investment bank, Bear Stearns, and its takeover by JPMorgan is cause for reflection.  Bear Stearns was a force to be reckoned with and held a storied past on Wall Street and its fall was a...

Diamond formation broke down yesterday. Only positive sign from a technical perspective is that the break down was on relatively low volume. This needs to be seen in context of the longer-term patterns to which i have drawn attention over the past few months. I am...

Compound interest is an extraordinarily powerful financial tool, and reinvesting the cash flows received from investments has historically been the single most reliable way of building wealth over the long- term.

So many patterns that have held for decades seem to have broken down, leading to one of two conclusions: Either this time really is different in ways that appear to violate what used to be seen as iron-clad laws of finance, or those laws have been bent but will...

Gold speculators continued to cut long positions and add to short positions. Based on current speculative data, gold is now holding at average historical positional levels. Silver speculators continue to cut silver positions to record-low levels with a net short...

Punch-drunk from a series of crunching blows, dazed and confused, staggering for the ropes. It’s hard not to get the image of Bitcoin being pummeled by the market, getting the wind knock out of it. But is this picture true? Instead of focusing on what swirls around...

Silver is on a major buy signal since early 2016. SLV is on short-term buy signal. Long-term – on major buy signal. Short-term – on buy signals. We are holding silver ETF for long-term gains.

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