Silver Editorials & Commentary

Many pundits have written about the Silver ETF and of course we also had our say. We thought it best to put into the public record our exact thoughts from the past as presented in our monthly reports before commenting further.

The purpose of this update is to draw readers' attention to the performance of Silvercrest and its future upside potential.

Before we can even begin to discuss Interest rates intelligently, we must first define what it is that we are actually talking about, since it appears that all the talking Media Heads and Wall Street analysts don't seam to understand what interest are or how in

"Because of the long-term structural deficit in silver, stretching back to World War II, we have consumed inventories for more than 60 years."

-Ted Butler, "The Coming Silver Bubble"

How would you like to own silver without paying for it? You say it sounds like a fairy tale? Well, allow me to tell you about it by beginning my story in the classic fairy-tale fashion.

With silver breaking to new highs, a lot of excitement is generated. Precious metals and related stocks are once again in the spot light, with many bullish analysis supporting a continued move higher.

So far, 2006 has been a very volatile year for gold stocks. After soaring 20% in January, the XAU declined by 15% in February, despite the fact that gold only declined 1% during the month.

I read an article last month in the Chicago Tribune

What a difference a few hours can make!

The immediate outlook for gold very much depends on the outcome of the silver "war of attrition", being fought in the $8.80 - $9.30 zone.

With gold and silver making new highs every other day, a lot of attention is shifting to the precious metals.

Fellow Goldbugs, Precious Metals aficionados, and Silver savers, is the title of this article too good to be true? Well perhaps, but in a very real sense it is probably the most truthful statement you will read about the recent 24 year high in the gold market.

This purpose of this article is to examine the veracity of the claim made in the first line of my debut article "Silver: A Rare Opportunity"

As little as one hundred years ago, a silver dime paid a worker for a full days worth of work. At today's fire-sale prices, you can buy those same 90% silver dimes for about 60 cents each.

Last time I was excited about politics, I was a fool. I voted for Ross Perot, twice! And we idiots were in favor of protectionism. Today, I'm a firm believer in the benefits of free trade. After all, I'm now an investor and trader!

The weekly chart below (courtesy stockcharts.com) shows a market that has been indecisive of the relative merits of silver vs gold as an investment target.

Grass Valley, CA (silverstockreport.com)  -- The Silver Users Association (SUA), a group devoted to the conflicting goals of keeping silver prices low and keeping silver

No matter how you look at it, by now most everyone with any sense of the market is likely established in the belief that commodities are in a secular bull market and we are now entering the second phase of it known as "the wall of worry" phase.

Recently, an article was posted on ResourceInvestor.com By Craig Stanley Titled: "Silver's Near-Term Outlook" see www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=11923

Recently, there were some interesting articles that discussed silver related issues in Mexico, like the unfolding of the "Peak Oil" scenario in Mexico and its impact on the Peso (

The following is a clip from the July Morgan Report.

Quote: "Silver prices in 2004 averaged $6.65, a sizeable rise of 36% year-on-year and a 17 year high." World Silver Survey 2005 page 11.

The $64,000 question is whether the 200 day MA of silver (and the long term uptrend line) will hold or whether the price of silver will break down from here

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Near term silver and zinc production

Silver is correcting again after a run to last year's high at $8.30. There seems to be a general consensus among silver gurus and commentators alike (David Morgan, Doug Casey, Jim Dines and others) that silver price has broken out of its 20 year downturn.

Acknowledgment: Mr Ted Butler's most recent article drew my attention once again to the relationship between outstanding Commitment of Traders contracts and subsequent price movement is the silver price.

I just happened to stumble across the chart below, which is a 5% X 3 box reversal of the RATIO of silver to gold.

A question often asked is about silver manipulation; and it seems to take a stance on this issue is certain to put you into a category or a box.

We have received many inquires as to our thoughts on some recently published information on the Internet.

With the rise in silver prices these past two years, silver is becoming an ever-more attractive and exciting metal to investors. This is not fluke.

The Silver Trap is composed of 1) Too little silver in the world, 2) Too much demand for silver from China and other countries, 3) Dollar inflation.

As most Internet readers are well aware, I have not published at any consistent frequency these past several months.

In this report we analyze the impact of newly industrialized China on the world's silver markets.

I am extremely pleased to announce that I will be joining several mining industry professionals for an extensive 7 day trip from the 21st through the 28th of November to China'

The Fed has inflated the dollar to oblivion since its inception.