Silver Editorials & Commentary

How dumb can you be? What better way to expose your naked short backside than to trash a market with known world-wide demand? So arrogant, so parochial. The world thanks you. The bullion dealers thank you.

On Friday and Monday, there was gargantuan volume in the gold market.  On the COMEX, more than a million contracts changed hands over those two trading days.  

The last week has been a fright fest for the gold “community”. But these are the financial markets, not a community. There is a world outside of whatever is going on in gold and silver.

What is currently going on in gold and silver is nothing short of a concerted effort to crush PM advocates.  It is a measure of how desperate the central banking cabal has become.  In our last Commentary, we stated that central planners/bankers would stop at no

On Friday and Monday, there was gargantuan volume in the gold market.  On the COMEX, more than a million contracts changed hands over those two trading days.  

Back in 2008, silver fell from over $20 per ounce down to below $10. This was a stomach-turning experience for those who had begun investing heavily in the metal.

After gold bottomed last summer and the Fed came with the QE (sanitized though it was by Op/Twist), the gold “community” thought it knew that gold was headed ‘to da moon!’. They thought this in mid-2011 as well.

If you’ve been reading my work in 2013 at all, you know I’ve been looking for a move lower in both gold and silver. It finally came this past week and was led by silver.

Try as it may, the Federal Reserve can’t seem to patch all the holes in the leaky inner tube that is the U.S.

Two weeks ago we looked at the difference between gold ETF outflows vs. physical gold purchases, and showed that most sales were coming from the former while aggressive buying was coming from the latter.

Some people believe that by imposing losses on investors and reducing the Cyprus banking system liabilities, the European powers have addressed the problems in Cyprus (if harshly). Others think that it was just an unjust tax on depositors.

When we discuss gold stocks we often refer to gold and silver stocks. Today we take a look at the silver stocks specifically. 

With the S&P500 closing the week out at all-time highs,  it’s hard not to be long it.  Now we’re looking for a new all-time high print this coming week.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information

Silver is winning market share from gold buyers.

With an astronomic and ever growing debt and derivatives overhang, there are essentially only two choices for the world economy.

Did you hear the U.S. Mint just ran out of silver? In mid-January, the Mint suspended sale of the 2013 run of its popular U.S. “Eagles.”

First let’s consider the outstanding performance of GOLD & SILVER since 2001. The chart below clearly demonstrates  the outrageously formidable appreciation of gold and silver vis-à-vis other asset classes during the past 12 years (to March 13, 2013).

So many  headlines are saying “$5,000 Gold, or $10,000 Gold; Silver, The Investment of the Decade,” etc, etc, etc.  Will that happen?  A history of failed fiat currencies says yes.

This market is amazing!

Silver and silver mining stocks are front and center for investors and active traders. Because of silvers high volatility (large price swings) it naturally attracts a lot of attention.


 

 Last week I outlined a very bearish larger picture for the precious metals.  I haven’t seen anything to change that view occur this past week with the exception of palladium.

Even though the newsletter I write for Casey Research is focused primarily on gold, our metals investments cover all the precious metals, and when warranted, some base-metals plays too.

Every baseball player knows the saying, “3 strikes and you’re out!”  Well, the dollar bugs may be about to strike out, against silver bullion.  

Nobody ever said riding a (gold) bull market was easy. Unless you’re prepared to buy, close your eyes, and come back years later, then I’m afraid we have to take the good with the bad.

Last week I mentioned I was heavily short the markets and many leading stocks.  It worked out well but not as well as I’d hoped.  Once the action begins to change profits have to be locked in and that’s what we did.

Investors sentiment for precious metals and gold and silver mining stocks has deteriorated quite substantially recently. And silver is no exception here, which can be seen on the white metal charts.

If there is a credible rumor that the Fed is planning to further extend its “Quantitative Easing”, how would you expect the monetary metals to react? Typically, the gold price would rise and the silver price would rise even more.  The question is why.

There is now such an overwhelming array of technical evidence that the Precious Metals sector is forming a major bottom, that by the end of reading this update you will, or should unless you are stupid, understand why we now have no choice but to turn strongly

Gold and silver along with their related miners have been under a lot of selling pressure the last few months.

A curious thing happened last week.  The prices of both monetary metals have been falling for a week and a half through February 15.   No, that’s not the curious part.  There is no law of nature that says the prices have to go up, but if they go down it must be

We often make a distinction between buyers of physical precious metals, [PMs] and buyers of futures, exhorting the former to buy with impunity, and some may see that as cavalier, given how the price for both gold and silver have been in recent decline.

Precious metals mining stocks may not look too encouraging recently – with mostly declines in 2013 and lack of any spectacular rally.

We at Sunshine Profits suggest holding three precious metals (in a physical form) as long-term investments in a “default” precious metals portfolio – gold, silver and platinum.

Well, it appears that the Dow Jones is going to take out its last all-time high of October 2007, even as market trading volume is collapsing.   That fact alone should make us wary of the stock market, but the Dow Jones doesn’t seem to care; the Dow has

It is a reality of life that those investors who favor gold (and silver) as their preferred asset-class need to have ‘thick skins’.

Last three months were sort of a roller coaster for precious metals investors – gold and silver hit a local bottom at the beginning of November and it looked like nothing could stop a strong rally to follow.

The last four or five years have been a nightmare for many investors, especially those of us investors in the natural resource stocks.