Silver Editorials & Commentary

Read the latest silver market commentary, editorials, essays and reports about investments and trends in the silver market and the economy in general.

 

December 3, 2022

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. SLV is on short term buy signal. SILJ is on short term buy signal.

Our benchmark SP500 is on long term SELL signal. Oil sector remains on long term BUY signal at the end of November. Gold sector remains on a long term sell signal.

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December 2, 2022

Silver has been rallying again over the past few days, with the COMEX spot price now back over the $22 level. Jerome Powell's comments yesterday where he talked about a reduction in the size of the rate hikes, possibly as soon as the Fed's December meeting had a lot...

December 1, 2022

Silver outperformed gold in quite an impressive way. However, can this really be considered bullish, or was it in fact just a correction? Yesterday’s session was nothing particularly new except for silver’s performance, which is what I will focus on in my analysis...

A few weeks ago we hosted SilverFest III, where in the final 'ask the experts' panel, one of the topics that came up is how long the current pricing environment can be maintained, and whether 2023 is the year where we finally see a higher silver price.

November 30, 2022

In the past few months we've seen the silver market go into 'backwardation' several times, which means that the spot price has traded over the futures price. Which isn't supposed to happen, and is usually an indication that physical metal that can be delivered now...

November 29, 2022

Over the past two years, there have been some wild and crazy things happen with regard to premiums charged and paid for various physical silver investment products. For the privilege of owning silver in certain specific forms, investors are paying through the nose;...

November 27, 2022

Over the past 2 years there's been a lot of silver leaving the COMEX and LBMA vaults. Which Ronan Manly of BullionStar.com has been reporting on thoroughly.

After the crypto collapse we have been seeing in the last couple of months, we ask Peter Grandich if we will see crypto investors turn to Silver & Gold. We also discuss what's been holding the precious metals market from turning to the upside.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. SLV is on short term buy signal. SILJ is on short term buy signal. Current COT data supports overall higher silver prices.

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of bonds over equities. VIX is down, expect overall higher prices in the near term.

November 25, 2022

Silver and its miners’ stocks have had a tough year.  They plunged with gold in spring and summer as extreme Fed tightening catapulted the US dollar parabolic.  The resulting deep lows left this tiny fringe contrarian sector deeply out of favor, but it has started...

James Anderson from SDBullion joins us today to talk about the annual report from The Silver Institute, stating that the silver demand is up an additional 16% from already historically high levels reached in 2021.

Last week when we held the SilverFest III celebration, one of the topics we wanted to cover was what exactly is going on the retail silver market. Where premiums have been high, and many products have been delayed or unavailable.

November 23, 2022

On Friday the Silver Institute released a report noting that the silver market is headed for the biggest deficit in decades, forecasting a deficit of 194 million ounces in 2020.

November 22, 2022

Bitcoin has an intractable problem, and it is intrinsic to bitcoin itself. The history of every industry is the story of producing more, with less. Fewer resources and less labor go into everything. From raw materials, to factory machines, to consumer goods, to...

November 20, 2022

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of bonds over equities. VIX is down, expect overall higher prices in the near term.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on buy signals. Cycle is up.

November 18, 2022

After a tough summer in the gold and silver markets, the precious metals have rallied in recent weeks. With gold up $150 since early November, and silver up almost $4 since the middle of October.

November 17, 2022

With 2022 coming to an end in just over 6 weeks, we had a roundtable at SilverFest III that offered a preview of what to expect in the silver market in 2023.

November 15, 2022

Hugh Hendry, Founder of Eclectica Macro, joins the show to discuss what the vast amount of tech layoffs tells us about the economy and what we can expect to see in the next couple of months. Furthermore, we talk about the Fed and how they are paving a path of...

Last Saturday at SilverFest III, David Morgan joined us to give his year in review of everything that happened in the silver market in 2022.

Silver outperformed gold, but its strength may mean something other than a promise of further rallies. Is corrective upswing coming to an end? Very little changed on the markets yesterday, which means that my yesterday’s analysis remains up-to-date. There are a few...

November 14, 2022

Mike McGlone, senior Macro Strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, joins the show to discuss what the vast amount of tech layoffs tells us about the economy. We also discuss what asset classes are the best to invest in heading toward 2023, Fed tightening, and more....

November 12, 2022

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. Current COT data supports overall higher silver prices. Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on buy signals.

November 11, 2022

Cryptocurrency markets were rattled this week by the abrupt collapse of FTX, a major exchange. Facing a wave of customer requests for withdrawals, FTX announced it was experiencing “liquidity” issues. Rival firm Binance initially offered to help facilitate an...

Tom Power, CEO of Sunshine Minting, joins the show to explain the American Silver Eagle shortage situation and what we can expect in the near future.

November 10, 2022

In 1970, an R&B vocal group called Chairmen of The Board debuted their first single – Give Me Just A Little More Time… When I see Chairman Powell responding to questions about the Fed’s efforts to raise interest rates, including how effective their efforts are...

November 9, 2022

Silver is finally back over $20, after a big rally to finish out last week. And as silver trader Vince Lanci talks about in today's show, it's due to a lot of short covering by the silver shorts, as they're being discouraged from being short by their trading...

November 8, 2022

It's been a volatile few days in the gold and silver markets following the Fed's latest meeting and also the recent labor report.

November 7, 2022

Economics, the "dismal science," has taken quite a beating in the current election cycle. Last week, Joy Reid, MSNBC’s rising-star bimbo, tried to convince viewers that the word "inflation" has no meaning outside the academy and the newsroom.

Chris Marcus from the YouTube channel Arcadia Economics returns to the show to discuss the Fed's fourth consecutive rate hike of its size to 75 basis points and what this could mean for the Precious Metals Markets. Furthermore, we talk about the Dollar index chart,...

November 6, 2022

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire investigates the ‘officially sanctioned’ PsyOps paper-sell operation disrupting the COMEX’s gold and silver price-setting mechanism.

November 5, 2022

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of bonds over equities. VIX is down, expect overall higher prices in the near term.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. SLV is on short term buy signal. SILJ is on short term buy signal.

November 4, 2022

Our present moment is precarious. Like it or not—we don’t—we live in the age of Central Banks. And as we witness, and alas participate in, the global drama to create or destroy wealth, there is a great and tragic irony at work.

This latest bear-market bounce was predicated on good seasonality, the hopes for a typical mid-term election boost, and the rumors of a Fed pivot. Wall Street always finds a narrative for rallies in a bear market.

Dave Collum joins the show to talk about how inflation is much worse than we expected and the consequence of this long-term.

November 3, 2022

With the silver premiums continuing to rise, and many products now facing delays, Andy Schectman of Miles Franklin joins me on the show to provide an update of the conditions in the retail physical silver market.

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