Silver Editorials & Commentary

America’s key institutions are broken. More people wake up daily to that reality. They are preparing for the moment this realization dawns on Americans at large, which explains why the markets for physical bullion are so active.

SPX Long-term trend: For now, the best guesstimate is that we are still in the bull market which started in 2009. Where we go from here and how far will be gauged after the September-October correction.

Despite recent headwinds, it looks to be clear sailing going forward for silver, according to recent forecasts from three financial services firms. “A higher gold price, along with the ongoing recovery in industrial demand, particularly from China, means that the...

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of September. Long-term – on BUY signal as of end of September. Short-term – on buy signal. Cycle is now up and the multi week correction is complete.

Elvis Presley’s rendition of Suspicious Minds topped the record charts in 1969. The lyrics portray a romance that couldn’t work, but was also impossible to escape. That’s also a good way to describe our relationship with government debt. We know it can’t last, but...

Our benchmark S&P500 is on a long-term BUY signal. However, the current investing model remains in favor of bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety over growth.

Gold and silver markets slumped this week as stimulus talks faltered again in Washington. Even though the White House upped its offer to $1.8 trillion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused it – not wanting to give President Trump any kind of political victory ahead of...

This phrase describes something that has proved effective or reliable before. A principle of classical technical analysis in trading. Still, it eludes us. Why not take the good-looking trades? Why not just grab the grapes from the vines? The need to push ourselves...

The Founding Father and President Thomas Jefferson understood the extreme danger in handing over the issuance of the money to the bankers:

I mentioned in a recent article that the weird thing about this recession is that it is the only one in which personal income has gone up during a recession. That, of course, is because of government assistance, which is making it so we don’t have to feel the pain...

We're still in the early innings of a precious metals bull market. And if you're wondering whether you need to own some silver, my answer is categorically yes. It's only a matter of degree. With silver that's important because it acts like gold, but on steroids. 

Jobs didn’t get much worse in September, but they stopped getting better. This is a tale of where the recovery road for the US economy ended. Unemployment is the crux of the Covidcrisis economic story. While jobs showed a little improvement in September, a little...

Money Metals Exchange has seen a large surge in demand for silver American Eagle coins in recent days. The word on the street was that a hefty $13 price increase was coming, and many wanted to get their coins before prices rose.

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 5.97 percent, perhaps related to Goldman Sachs suggesting investors go long with the boost seen from a greater expansion of solar energy. Gold rose for a second straight day on Thursday on hopes that...

We may not want to remember any of 2020 because it has been one of the strangest years any of us have ever known. September, however, gave us a little reprieve — now fading — a calm beneath clouds of black swans that could alight anywhere at any time. These circled...

Gold and silver appear to be bouncing back from the drubbing they took in September, with both precious metals striking higher on Monday, Oct. 5. As of this writing, spot gold finished about $15 better than Friday’s close, @ $1,910.30 in New York, while silver also...

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of September. SLV is on short-term buy signal. Resistance at 33.

Our benchmark S&P500 is on a long-term BUY signal. However, the current investing model remains in favor of bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety over growth.

This article explains the effect of monetary inflation on GDP. Nominal GDP is directly inflated by additional money and credit, so GDP growth is simply a reflection of additional money in the economy. It gives no clue as to the underlying economic situation.

Many technicians are rigid with their insistence that charts can tell every story. They can’t. The percentage of cycle reoccurrence and charts reflecting human behavior is very high. As such, charts are highly accurate. We are also going through changes over the...

Patrick Vierra from Silver Bullion TV discusses expectations given the recent short-term silver price movement of Silver. Many analysts expect an increase in the price of Silver, investors should be prepared for a pullback with any pullback in the stock market. 

There was a big drop in the price of silver last Wednesday. Then the price moved up, and down, but mostly up. Let’s look at a graph of the silver price and basis showing Sep 30 through Oct 5, with intraday resolution.

Before I wade into my Q4 strategy analysis, I have to tell you that prior to last Tuesday’s “debate”, I was leaning toward a “neutral” investment strategy largely based upon the 2016 outcome where heavily-favoured Hillary Clinton was upset by the Trump Train at the...

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of September. SLV is on short-term sell signal. COT data favors overall lower silver prices. Support just below $20 must hold.

Our benchmark S&P500 is on a long-term BUY signal. However, the current investing model remains in favor of bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety over growth.

Silver’s dazzling parabolic surge this summer was overwhelmingly driven by enormous silver-ETF-share buying.  Led by momentum-chasing millennial traders, unprecedentedly-huge amounts of stock-market capital deluged into the dominant SLV iShares Silver Trust silver...

As widely telegraphed over the past week, the US Justice Department and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (along with the SEC) have settled the precious metals spoofing/manipulation case which first came into view in November 2018 with the announcement of a...

More than a few traders are confused about what is going on with silver here after its recent reaction, but when we look at its long-term chart the situation quickly becomes clear. So we will start this update by looking at silver’s 13-year chart in order to get big...

With US elections coming closer the density of negative news has as well. Who to believe? How to weather the storm?

While the silver price was dropping recently, we published analyses here and here. At that time, we saw a basis that fell with price, but which recovered during “off” days. In short, there was not much of a decrease in abundance of the metal to the markets...

This article is the sequel to the widely read  Welcome To THE GLOBAL GULAG...  and aims to address many of the points not covered in Part 1, but whereas Part 1 was written in just one (long) day off the top of my head, Part 2 has been carefully brought together over...

Gold and silver investors may have little in common with Jeffrey Epstein’s teenage victims or violent “Black Lives Matter” rioters, but there is one issue upon which they might all agree. Our system of justice often fails.

Since I’ve spent a fair amount of time on the US stock market of late, I won’t say much. Just taking a moment to note September just finished its fourth consecutive week down (final full week), maintaining a downtrend that began as we rolled over from August into...

It wasn’t just COVID that got us down the road to ruin. Because many think we are in what looks like a post-apocalyptic world of rubble only because of COVID or because of Trump, I decided now would be a good time to summarize how predictably the Fed’s Great...

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of August. SLV is on short-term sell signal. COT data favors overall lower silver prices. Support just below $20 must hold.

Our benchmark S&P500 is back on a long-term BUY signal. However, the current investing model remains in favor of bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety over growth.

With US elections looming many ask:”How deep will the retracement be? At what price do I purchase my physical silver?” If you think of it, this question is universal. In principle, it has no answer. No one can tell you if and by how much prices might retrace from...

A few days ago, we wrote about a big silver crash. The price dropped around 7.5%. And the basis dropped from around 2% to 0.6%. At the end, we said: “The key question is: what is the follow-through? If the price stays down and the basis goes back up, that will be a...

The top three official mints sold a great deal of retail silver bullion products in the first half of 2020.  However, the sales figure could have been a great deal higher if the various government mints weren’t forced to shut down production.  The top three official...

On Monday, the dollar rose from 1.16 grams silver, to 1.26g. Conventional monetary thinkers believe that the dollar can be measured either in terms of the euro, pound, yuan, etc. Or in terms of consumer prices.