Silver Editorials & Commentary

In keeping with last week’s theme, the market has mainly traded sideways this week. However, that correction I’ve been calling for weeks? We have potentially started.

Wednesday’s session was more of the same as it was another expected consolidation. If you recall, it was only day #2 of the pattern so patience Is needed given the past 2 weeks’ V-shape performance totaling +8% from  the 3650s low to the 3950s high on the Emini S...

It has been a long ten years, but it seems that the investing world is finally beginning to realize that the globally-recognized prices of gold and silver are managed and manipulated by the Bullion Banks, which operate as market makers within the fraudulent...

The market largely continued last week’s mixed moves, with the S&P and Nasdaq mildly retreating from record highs and the Dow eking out another record close.

Platinum was manipulated for years. It had the largest short position relative to its size, while physical demand rose inversely to decreasing supply. In 2018, demand became so large that it overwhelmed the shorts.

The effort to squeeze silver shorts may appear to have fizzled, but naked short sellers are as vulnerable as ever. Silver futures prices are entering backwardation. That is a bad omen for anyone betting on lower silver prices.

It was one year and three weeks ago that I decided to buck the Pollyanna Trend that was then dominating the U.S. equity markets and with the S&P 500 within an earshot of record highs, I penned the January 24th missive entitled “Malevolent Microbes” in reference...

CNBC interviewed Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie – the head of global commodity research at GS – regarding the potential for the silver market to be squeezed. In the segment Currie made the argument at “the shorts are the ETFs. The ETFs buy the physical they turn around...

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of January. Long-term – on BUY signal as of end of January. Short-term – on buy signal. We are holding long-term positions.

Our long -erm stocks/bond model is in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth. The energy /oil sector has a new long-term buy signal and should produce above-average return over the next few...

Attention in the metals markets shifted this week from silver to copper and platinum. While big moves in silver and gold prices may be coming down the road, the monetary metals are currently taking a back seat to electrical and automotive metals.

The words bubbly and delicious might be more descriptively accurate when talking about champagne. However, it is not too difficult to imagine giddy salivation among the owners of Bitcoin, or Tesla stock.

For once, we have a week in 2021 where the market really didn't move all that much. Except for weed stocks that whipsawed GameStock-like and Bitcoin and Dogecoin making waves thanks to Lord Elon, it's really been kind of a boring week for the major indices.

Many stocks are in a bubble. The bubble can inflate even larger, but be careful. Silver is not a bubble, even though well above its lows from last year. People want something real in a dangerous and unreal world.

Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighting back.

Against an improving macroeconomic backdrop, the main segments of silver demand are expected to rise this year. Led by industrial and physical silver investment, global silver demand is expected to achieve an eight-year high of 1.025 billion ounces in 2021.

Technically, the Dow and S&P500 snapped their 7-day winning streak. Technically, I hardly consider a decline of 0.03% and 0.11% for the Dow and S&P, respectively, a down day. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq and Russell saw a record close for who knows how many...

The red flags around JP Morgan and the SLV silver trust continue to emerge. Several analysts have already presented information that has left most SLV shareholders feeling incredibly uncomfortable. And in today's call, Nick Barisheff of BMG Group discusses what he’s...

In a StreetSmart Live! Broadcast on Feb. 4, 2021, Greg McCoach, publisher of The Mining Speculator; Jorge Ramiro Monroy, CEO of Reyna Silver Corp. (RSLV:TSX.V; RSNVF:OTCMKTS); and Peter Megaw, precious metals expert and chief technical adviser to Reyna discuss...

If someone were to ask me my opinion precious metals tape action during the period between Jan. 28 and Feb. 1, 2021, two words would come to mind, with the first being "enlightening," and the second being "engaging."

Many of you are familiar with the shell game street-scam, most commonly encountered in NYC, crafted to fleece money from unsuspecting tourists.  As it turns out, it’s quite probable that the silver and gold bar custodial business is likely one big shell game.

If you’re over 40 you’ve lived through at least three epic financial bubbles: junk bonds in the 1980s, tech stocks in the 1990s, and housing in the 2000s. Each was spectacular in its own way, and each threatened to take down the whole financial system when it burst...

After a frenzy of Reddit induced activity that captivated everyone, silver painfully gave back what it gained. What’s next for the white metal? As the precious metals’ version of moral hazard, silver tipped over the flowerpot, and left gold to clean up the mess....

While in the last century, one could fair pretty well with “set it and forget it,” meaning you bought a high-quality stock or an index and wake up 30 years later with compounded profits, today you need to be on your toes not to lose all your money. Current affairs...

The faint heartbeat of this week’s jobs report did not keep the stock market from trying to scramble back up to its record heights. The surging and plunging and scrambling for cash and closing of gates at Robinhood did not stop the rise either.

Long-term – on BUY signal as of end of January. Short-term – on buy signal. We are holding long-term positions.

A wild week of trading across asset markets has left investors wondering what represents real value – and whether it even matters anymore.

Our long -erm stocks/bond model is in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth. The energy /oil sector has a new long term buy signal and should produce above average return over the next few...

“I really did not want the Reddit crowd to get involved in the precious metals like this because I knew there was a risk that it would be short-lived. Silver now [as of Tuesday morning] is down more than it was up yesterday…unfortunately my cynical side is saying...

This past week’s silver-market action has been extraordinary, wildly unprecedented. Incredible torrents of capital deluged into the world’s dominant silver exchange-traded fund. That came right after attempts to organize small traders to engineer a silver short...

Is this week, dare I say, the first "normal" week of 2021? Let’s take a look at what has happened in January so far in what is supposed to be a more prosperous year than 2020. Six days into 2021, the Capitol saw its first insurrection since 1814.

I’d like to explain why these already-stretched markets could crash by the start of the 3rd quarter. I’ve been warning over the past month, or about, that my Inflation/Deflation and Economic Cycle Model SM is forecasting a potential crash in equities around the...

TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK. That's the message most hopeful physical silver buyers have been getting since the last days of January. Odds are bullion dealers going to have a tough time keeping any silver in stock.

As extreme market conditions drive tremendous volatility in silver spot prices, buyers are exerting unprecedented pressures on retail physical bullion products. Record-setting buying volumes pushed the silver price toward a multi-year breakout on Monday. Silver hit...

Since the precious metals like to ride along with the EUR/USD, and the latest Eurozone data looks grim, what are the implications for the PMs? Just when everyone and their brother thought that silver was going straight to the moon… it plunged. And that’s not the end...

The price of silver is going up and down like a yoyo. On Sunday and into the first part of Monday, the price skyrocketed on news that Reddit was touting the metal. But as the data clearly showed, the price was not driven up by retail buying of physical metal.

So how about GameStop (GME) and AMC (AMC)? That Silver short-squeeze? Fighting the man? That was fun while it lasted. I don't want to lecture anyone or say that I told you so. During one of my newsletters last week, I even said that I tip my hat to anyone who...

“All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not poison”. These words were expressed by the famous Swiss physician and scientist Paracelsus in the 16th century. This week I will discuss two poisonous areas; a toxic derivatives...

It appears silver is in a new uptrend with support from the longer term up trend channel. Silver should test recent highs, so is doing much better than gold. A close at $29 or higher would signal a breakout. There is a lot of scuttle but and rumors out there about...

Sometimes you can count on the manipulation conspiracy theorists to get it exactly wrong. Not just a little bit wrong, nor halfway wrong. Not even mostly wrong. Totally wrong, backwards.