Federal Reserve officials hinted at a rate hike as soon as next month, but that prospect did little to support the U.S. dollar or hinder precious metals. Gold and silver prices have surged to new highs for the year while the dollar made a new low. Perhaps markets have already priced in another modest rate […]
Silver broke out of its 5-month downtrend last week as expected. On its 6-month chart we can see the breakout move last Tuesday, and how there has been no follow through, increasing the risk of it turning lower again. However, the high volume bull hammer at the start of the month continues to have bullish […]
If you had asked us in the spring of 2011 how severe of a decline in spot prices we expected to find in silver, we would have based an educated guesstimate on the previous cycle breakdown for the Nasdaq bubble that measured to roughly an 80% fall from high to low. This is basically what […]
The key to investing in silver is getting in before the big gains are made. The sector that will have the largest impact on future silver investment demand will be institutional buying. According to Rick Rule of Sprott Asset Management, we may be witnessing the beginning stages of what could be a big move of […]
Peter Krauth writes: Let’s face it, 2013 was rough on silver. The precious metal started out the year at $31, and ended at $19.50, continuing an overall slump dating back roughly to mid-2011. That, however, obscures a massive run, like gold, that silver embarked on in 2001 when it was near $4, eventually topping out […]
Adam Hamilton, CPA: Silver has suffered a rough year, but its fortunes are changing. In recent months its price has firmed at the convergence of multiple major support zones, a powerful technical launchpad. Silver has soared in parabolic uplegs from the handful of similar past convergences, a very bullish omen. And with silver languishing so […]
Even though silver investment demand has picked up recently due to the lowest prices in over two years, this may be just the tip of the iceberg for what is to come in the future. Currently, only a small fraction of investors understand silver’s future potential but that will change in the next few years. […]
Recently, silver has been in a more extreme bull market than gold. That means the gains we could see going forward could be astronomical. You see, the price of silver per ounce has usually been equal to around 1/16th of an ounce of gold — meaning it took 16 ounces of silver to equal a single […]
So many headlines are saying “$5,000 Gold, or $10,000 Gold; Silver, The Investment of the Decade,” etc, etc, etc. Will that happen? A history of failed fiat currencies says yes. When will it happen? That is the question few articles address because they simply have no clue, beyond their sensationalized headlines. Who can best answer […]
HSBC has quietly moved into acquiring large amounts of silver bullion. Silver has now rallied for 7 days due to the flood of inflows into silver backed ETF’s and investment demand for coins, bars and sterling silver flatware and tableware products internationally. Analysts polled by Reuters expect silver to rise in 2013. Holdings of iShares […]