Silver Editorials & Commentary

Last week’s economic data releases have continued revealing coronavirus damage to the economy. Thursday’s weekly Unemployment Claims number has surpassed 5 million, but it was a little lower than expected. However, the markets remained relatively calm last week, as...

The news media and the pundits flailed around over the weekend trying to come up with reasons why the broad averages have rallied to within 10%-20% of record highs even though the global economy could be headed into a depression.

Ron Insana, whom I’ve always thought was well named due to the funny way his brain works and the way he smiles even when nothing is happening, has just melded minds with Kudlow & Cramer to support a coronavirus war bond:

Silver is on a major SELL signal. SLV is on short-term buy signal. Speculation actually dropped despite higher silver prices.

Our benchmark S&P500 is on a long-term sell signal, a major correction is in progress. 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 is blasting higher after mid-March’s stock-panic-spawned near-crash.  This normal oversold mean reversion looks like the start of something much bigger though.  Speculators’ positioning in silver futures utterly collapsed, leaving massive room for them to buy...

Egged on by the horrendous retail sales data, S&P 500 intraday decline has gathered steam yesterday. An 8.7% drop in consumer spending can’t be just waved off. Neither can the Empire State Manufacturing Index at -78.2. We have the impression that the world is...

Crude oil bulls don’t seem to be making much progress these days. The situation is tense, and black gold keeps hovering ever so close to its recent lows. Can the bulls get their act together and avert the fall of a cliff ahead?

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse bring pain and reset expectations. They are, according to some sources, pestilence, war, famine, and death.

Over the past few weeks and months, there have been seismic changes in the way people are thinking of markets – and the concept of markets – generally. As evidenced by movements in the Federal Reserve’s sale and repurchase facility from last September, which has...

Most people don’t understand the cause of hyperinflation. Many argue that we can’t get hyperinflation since asset prices are now under pressure and there is no demand led inflation as most people currently have very little money. 

Sunday’s special Stock Trading Alert laid out the coronavirus crisis, response and consequences ahead in great detail and a 360-degrees view. Reading it will help you get the most out of today’s article as we will look at the internals and prospects of the stock...

Investors who think the worst is over had better prepare for the other shoe to drop. Stocks rallied sharply last week, reflecting the egregious miscalculation not only of bulls who have yet to meet a dip they could not buy, but also of bears who evidently fear that...

We are all praying for the Wuhan virus to die. But there is something the virus can actually “cure” itself: deflation. I put the word cure in quotes because it's not an actual issue in reality. Low inflation and disinflation are actually great conditions to enjoy...

Let’s join yesterday’s Gold & Silver Weekend Special, and bring you an advance one in stocks as well. As the coronavirus crisis, response and anticipations are what is moving the markets, today’s Alert will draw on yesterday’s Gold & Silver Trading Alert and...

The title of Leo Tolstoy’s massive tome, War and Peace, which many have heard of but few have read, implies a cyclical alternation between these conditions, which never ends, no matter how great the level of technological advance, because of the nature of men, which...

Today the bulls did it it again. This market remains deeply entrenched in denial, soaring even as unemployment soars higher toward the grand summits of the Great Depression and with certain knowledge that many jobs will not return.

Silver is on a major SELL signal. Long-term – on SELL signal as of end of March. Short-term – on buy signal. Cycle is up. 

Our benchmark S&P500 is on a long term sell signal, a major correction is in progress. 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.

Never has it been more important to understand the psychology and motivation behind changes in the level of bank credit at a time when governments and central banks are relying on commercial banks to transmit Keynesian stimuli to distressed borrowers. And never has...

The coronavirus is blamed for weak global demand and damaged supply chains. The Fed is worried. But central banking is part of the problem. Central banks created bubbles, and those bubbles crashed in 2000, 2008, and 2020.

By its close yesterday, the market provided exactly the example of the head slamming I said bulls were going to get in the article I was writing all day yesterday because the “Stock Market Bulls are Delusional in Face of Great Depression.”

Monday was nothing but a dead-bull bounce on top of a dead-cat bounce, which means there is plenty of punishment to come. Pure testosterone drove the market’s rise fed by nothing but the weak premise that New York’s drop in the coronavirus death rate for a single...

While Friday’s session turned out kind of undecided, it was still a down session with the bears bringing home the bacon. Can the same conclusion be reached when examining the weekly chart? And what about other valuable clues as to the upcoming S&P500 move?

Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door has been cracked open for that possibility. Mainstream politicians have long insisted that Medicare for all, a universal basic income, student debt relief and a slew of other much-needed public programs are off...

Silver is on a major SELL signal. Long-term – on SELL signal as of end of March. Short-term – on buy signal. Cycle is up. 

Our benchmark S&P500 is on a new long term sell signal, a major correction is in progress. 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.

After Wednesday’s slide, the S&P 500 moved higher yesterday. While the move itself hadn’t surprised us as we’ve earlier called for a pause in the downswing, the question is whether we can expect some more upside shortly.

As many of our readers know, silver supply from mining operations has been in decline. That decline has just sped up. In a big way. As you might know, a plethora of mining companies around the world have announced they suspended part or all of their operations. It’s...

The banks that are begging for bailouts still cling to their bonuses. To terrorize us into letting them keep their bonuses, the banksters are threatening to release the button on their suicide vests and blow themselves up by not taking the bailouts if they can’t...

When it comes to the recession that is being created by the pandemic lockdowns - then the U.S. government and Federal Reserve have no intention of just letting the market forces play out. Instead, the intention is to contain a potential deeper round of crisis with...

Silver is real money, not a debt-based fiat currency that will eventually fail. Silver bullion production requires capital and effort to mine and refine. We use it for solar panels, iPhones, cruise missiles and thousands of other items. Silver is monetary sanity.

The U.S. monetary and fiscal authorities are shoveling trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy to prevent a collapse of the economy and the financial system. Will this money be repaid or otherwise withdrawn from the system? If not, what consequences can we...

Technical analyst John Newell looks back at the gold to silver ratio through history. When we don't understand the present, we can turn to the past. It is believed the natural ratio in the earth's crust is ~10 ounces of silver for one ounce of gold.

Join us as we discuss higher time frame technical analysis with 20-year veteran technician Chris Vermeulen, Founder and Chief Market Strategist of thetechnicaltraders.com. 

My clients have known for a long time that the nucleus of the next crisis will be in the overleveraged corporate bond market.

Whichever way you cut it, silver’s chart looks bearish for the short to medium-term, but against this we must set its rapidly improving COT structure and the mega-bullish silver to gold ratio (by all past standards).

Silver is on a major BUY signal. Major signals can last for months and years and are suitable for long-term investors. SLV is on short-term sell signal. Short term signals can last for days to weeks and are more suitable for traders.

Oil sector remains on long-term sell signal as of end of February.  The long-term signal remains on buy at month end. However, the current investing model favors bonds, therefore, investors should continue to overweigh with long bonds or bond ETFs for safety over...

The carnage in the silver miners’ stocks has been apocalyptic, fueled by the astounding COVID-19 stock panic.  As terrified traders frantically dumped everything and ran for the hills, silver and its miners’ stocks crashed.  That catastrophic anomaly has potentially...