Silver Editorials & Commentary

Recession winds are blowing, and the next major gust could push silver over the edge. While silver has benefited from the Midde East conflict, history shows the white metal can’t escape the ominous fundamentals of higher real yields, a stronger USD Index, and panic...

It's been another volatile week in the silver market, although fortunately this time the volatility has been to the upside. As following a multi-week selloff, both gold and silver have climbed, particularly on the back of last Friday's move which saw silver move...

At this point, given what is going on in the world, silver is regarded as probably the best value investment around with very little downside and huge upside. It is still significantly undervalued relative to gold, which reflects the recent negative sentiment...

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is down. VIX is now down.

Cycle is up. Trend is up. We are invested in the gold sector

There continues to be several similarities between today and the 1968-1971 period for Silver.

With the Federal Reserve's interest rate hiking campaign dominating the financial markets over the past year and a half, traders have examined each Fed statement for clues of when it will be over.

In recent weeks Vince Lanci has commented on how one of the primary factors driving the silver market lower has been that we were in the midst of the metals sell season. When funds are winding up yearly positions, ahead of the preparation for next year's positions...

Last week, Rafi Farber suggested the end game is dead ahead. This week, he goes into more detail, focusing in on the reserve dollar tank that is draining fast, and should be empty between February and April 2024. This is the only thing keeping high interest rates...

Silver has been a major underperformer in recent months, as the white metal proved no match for higher real yields and a stronger USD Index.

Cycle is down. Trend is down. We are in cash and wait for the next cycle bottom.

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is down. VIX is up and markets are down.

For those who like seeing volatility in the financial markets, this has been your week!

The bond market continues to collapse as long term interest rates rise relentlessly, day after day. Oil is mysteriously trading together with the dollar index instead of inversely, signaling that the forex market is spinning off into its own compartmentalized...

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is down. VIX is up and markets are down.

You’d almost think they [financial news media] never said any of the things they, in fact, did say as they now start lining up to report the same things I’ve been saying all year; and they do this without batting an eye over how that means all their recent forecasts...

Gold and silver are under pressure again today, as rates in the US continue to rise, while the dollar index trends higher once again.

The silver futures on the COMEX have been selling off again this week, with a spike lower on Monday, and a slow continuation of the selloff on Tuesday.

One of the most frustrating dynamics for silver investors is seeing the draw-downs in inventory and hearing about the deficit in the silver market, yet seeing the silver price hover in the $23 and fail to move higher. So why is the price still so low despite these...

Joining us today is Thomas Parilla, president of Parilla Investment Group, and we discuss the pressing economic issues of today: inflation, the Fed's next moves, and the implications for gold, silver, and the wider market.

Signals are blaring across the world that bond markets are not exactly OK. Resistance levels in yields going all the way back to 1968 are being breached, and the carnage in US Treasuries is spreading to Japan, AKA the Keynesian Frankenstein's monster of monetary...

Reality keeps hitting points home for the poor Dow and its beleaguered company of other indices. It dented the Dow pretty badly today. A trio of central banks have all underlined this week the fact that the battle will be long, and their will to stick it out with...

Hours before my father’s collapse we were trading text messages across the 7- time zones between us about my son’s first sentence, only to receive a call moments before going to bed that he was gone.

Cycle is down. Trend is down. We are in cash and wait for the next cycle bottom.

With the fundamental roadblocks adding up, silver confronts a bearish outlook at nearly every turn.

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is down. VIX is up and markets are down.

According to many commentators, the Fed’s monetary policy, which aims at price stability, is the key factor in attaining stable economic growth. They claim that what prevents the attainment of price stability are fluctuations in the federal funds rate relative to...

After 40 years of silver price manipulation and suppression on the COMEX, the physical market has experienced a lack of production growth and enhanced demand brought about by too-low silver prices.

The Federal Reserve has seen the government inflation metrics come down over the past year throughout its interest rate hiking campaign. But one of the driving factors behind the decreases in the rate of increase has been lower energy prices.

In this episode, we are joined by David Hunter, chief macro strategist with Contrarian Macro Advisors, and we talk about the looming financial crisis, global economic conditions, and the potential future of gold and silver.

We hear a lot about the virtues of owning real estate for wealth preservation during a hyperinflationary crisis, but in this week's Silver Report, Rafi Farber explains why it does not work that way, and proves the point from what's happening in hyperinflationary...

Our cycle indicator is DOWN. Cycle is down. Trend is down. We are in cash and wait for the next cycle bottom.

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is down. VIX is down. We closed out our short positions with a small profit.

For the past year and a half the markets have watched the Federal Reserve raise interest rates, while waiting to see how far they would go before pausing. And also when they would begin cutting rates following the last hike.

The latest Consumer Price Inflation reading came out this morning, and showed that prices rose at a higher rate than in July, and slightly above expectations. Which has left gold and silver slightly lower in Wednesday morning trading.

As with gold the increasing danger going into this Fall is that silver gets caught up in a “pan selloff” involving a market crash triggered by a cascade of bank failures, a crisis in the debt market and another long period of lockdown using a Covid variant / climate...

One of the significant changes in the silver market over the past week has been a drop in the EFP (exchange for physical), with the spread between spot silver and the futures narrowing.

In this week's silver report, Rafi Farber goes into why you need not worry about gold or silver confiscation. Thanks to the hundreds of millions of ounces held in ETFs that can be stolen in a fraction of a second, the decentralized physical metal held in vaults or...

Our cycle indicator is DOWN. SLV is on short term sell signal. SILJ is on short term sell signal. Current data is unclear.