The Bomb Squad
By: Theodore Butler | 5 November, 2009
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| Silver is a unique situation, both from an investment and regulatory perspective. The short concentration in silver, in terms of the futures market, world production and above ground inventories has no equal. It must be dealt with in a unique regulatory manner. Anything less will prove futile. Full Story |
Current Gold:Silver Ratio Screams: Buy All Things Silver!
By: Lorimer Wilson | 4 November, 2009
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| The Gold:Silver ratio has ranged from 14.9-to-1 in January 15, 1980 at the time of the record high gold and silver prices to 99.8-to-1 on February 22, 1991 when the price of silver was particularly depressed. During the past 5 years it has ranged from 43.6-to-1 (April 19, 2006) to 84.4-to-1 (October, 2008). It is currently at 64-to-1 having breached the 28 year support line of 58-to-1 (and 200dma) in August 2008. Full Story |
PEAK SILVER & PEAK MINING by a Falling EROI
By: Steve St. Angelo | 4 November, 2009
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| The Peak of World Silver Production may be just around the corner due to a falling EROI (energy returned on energy invested). This will also be true for most industrial metals. I may go as far as to say, if the Global Economy does not make a full recovery shortly (which I doubt), 2008 could be the all time peak for world silver production. At least, the world production of silver will be in a plateau as unconventional oil supplies start to peak and decline. Full Story |
Trade Imbalances Are Silver's Bullish Signal
By: Dr. Jeffrey Lewis | 3 November, 2009
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| At the foundation of any macroeconomic theory, the trade balance is one of the most important economic indicators. The trade balance is the calculation of the difference between how much a country exports and how much it imports. In the United States, the trade balance has been in the negative for decades due to the importation of oil and the reliance on the manufacturing abilities of other nations to produce our goods. Full Story |
Silver set to Soar as it did in the 1970’s
By: Mark O’Byrne | 3 November, 2009
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| Silver remains very undervalued on an historical basis (charts below) and is undervalued even against gold (chart below). While gold has begun to receive some interest from a small minority of retail investors, silver remains the preserve of relatively few contrarian investors and the media and financial press rarely if ever covers silver. And yet silver is quite likely in the intermediate stage of a bull market that will rival or surpass that of the 1970’s. Full Story |
Bank Reserves Lend Many Reasons to Bank on Silver
By: Dr. Jeffrey Lewis | 29 October, 2009
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| One of the largest drivers of silver prices, inflation is already showing itself. After the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the US central bank took dramatic steps to curb any future price decline in housing, commodities, and stocks – but the effort was purely inflationary. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 18 October, 2009
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| Silver is pushing $18, gold has made new all time nominal highs and it all appears to be looking good for The Great Leap Forward. Buyers are piling in fearful of having to buy at higher prices and gold and silver look moon bound. Meanwhile I am now all cash in my trading account and have sold silver bullion as well (for my trading account of course). Yet I believe silver will make new highs and approach the highs not seen since January 1980. Am I insane? No, just bearish medium term and bullish long term. Full Story |
The Box Canyon
By: Theodore Butler | 12 October, 2009
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| I was careful to say that the coming announcement of the actual number of contracts for hard position limits in most commodities would be anti-climatic. That’s because the current accountability limits do not appear to be excessive. There is one market, however, in which the announcement will be of high drama, no matter what the proposed number. I speak of COMEX silver futures. Full Story |
Road to Roota XX - The Big Silver Slingshot
By: Bix Weir | 6 October, 2009
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| The amount of information on silver as an investment being analyzed and discussed lately has been astonishing. I remember only a few years ago that it was only the likes of Ted Butler, David Morgan and Jason Hommel that ever promoted the amazing investment opportunity that silver represented. Now there are literally hundreds of “pro-silver analysts” out there talking about the supply/demand deficit, COMEX Commitment of Traders Report, fraudulent Silver ETFs and the dual role of silver as both an industrial metal and monetary metal. I LOVE IT! Full Story |
Help Silver by Letting Silver Help You
By: Warren Bevan | 6 October, 2009
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| It’s a well known but often misunderstood fact that silver is being, once again, increasingly used in medicinal or purification applications. The recent reports of the H1N1 virus, more commonly , but falsely, known as swine flu (stock up on cheap pork while you can!) spreading at rates far faster than anticipated got me to thinking about how to help fight the flu if contracted, without relying on medical professionals. Full Story |
A Bull in a Silver Shop
By: Richard Daughty, The Mogambo Guru | 5 October, 2009
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| One of the most interesting news items I’ve found was on the cover of The Financial Times, where I learned that a guy named Lahde “made tens of millions of dollars from betting against the financial and property sectors during [the] past two years”, and he now wanted to thank “the low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA” who made it all possible for him to find enough suckers. Full Story |
We Gave Another Silver Summit, And They Came!
By: David Bond | 5 October, 2009
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| The official endings of Summer and The Silver Summit came early last week, with the departures of blue sky, warm temperatures, and of our dear friend Georg Stangel, of Stein-am-Rhein, Switzerland, who comes to the Summit every year and then repairs to Wallace for a few days of merriment with his friends. Full Story |
The Silver Shortage Will Come
By: Israel Friedman | 28 September, 2009
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| Based on the supply and demand situation of silver, it's only a question of time when a silver shortage will come. Nobody can predict exactly when this is going to happen, but we have more and more signs that those who control the price of silver are sweating to balance the supply. Full Story |
One Unique Silver Fundamental
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 26 September, 2009
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| World production of silver isn’t going to drop yet but we await the day when the USGS will begin to drop that reserves number. When that happens, the world will perhaps begin to believe in silver’s Unique Selling Proposition. Full Story |
Gold And Silver Into the Next Decade
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 22 September, 2009
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| The critical juncture we suggested for silver last week has not changed. All the factors we have looked at point to silver dropping in the medium term though the shorter term (days to weeks) has scope for volatility. The RMA parameter mentioned before has sounded an alarm but for now a low decibel one. Other factors though are more shrill (refer to my blog for more details). Full Story |
Silver Investigation Update
By: Theodore Butler | 22 September, 2009
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| Yesterday, I received a number of emails from readers who had been communicating with Commissioner Bart Chilton of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Obviously, Commissioner Chilton intended this to be made public and I do so here. My comments will follow. Full Story |
A Self-Serving White Paper
By: Theodore Butler | 21 September, 2009
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| I know the shorts are corrupt and powerful. I know the technical fund longs have been easy to deceive. I know the COT structure is negative. I know what usually happens in previous set ups. And I know that it may happen again. But I also know that if a physical silver shortage is at hand, the shorts don’t have a prayer. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 17 September, 2009
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| I don’t know but rest assured this is not a time to buy in bulk unless you are disciplined with your stops and do not allow them to be unactionable at any time. Am I saying the silver bull is now dead and buried? Not at all! Was the bull over after the previous examples? Prepare for greater heights but don’t get carried away at these critical junctures. Full Story |
The Dumbest Trade Ever?
By: Theodore Butler | 14 September, 2009
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| In this day and age of massive financial miscalculation and blunder, it’s not easy coming up with the single trade that holds the title of the dumbest of all. After all, we have seen trading positions that have, quite literally, destroyed large firms, like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. We’ve seen large individual trades gone sour to the tune of billions of dollars, as in the case of Amaranth and Soc Gen. Full Story |
Silver Trending Towards Backwardation Again
By: Trace Mayer, J.D. | 13 September, 2009
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| The silver backwardation has been on-again off-again throughout 2009 and this portends gigantic problems for the worldwide monetary system. Backwardation is a situation where the fiat currency price of a commodity is pregnant with a premium the buyer is willing to pay for immediate delivery. Full Story |
Opening the Mint to Gold and Silver - Then and Now
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 12 September, 2009
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| Some people think that one of the fundamental institutions of the 19th century should be restored; I will single out Great Britain as the great leader embracing this institution. This institution was the free minting of gold practiced by Great Britain in its heyday of growth, world economic and financial power. Full Story |
Buy Silver - The China Factor [Video]
By: YouTube | 9 September, 2009
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| Buy Silver - The China Factor [Video] Full Story |
What If We Gave A Silver Summit And Somebody Came?
By: David Bond | 4 September, 2009
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| This question rolled around our post-midnight table at the Smoke House in Wallace in July of 2003. What if we held a Silver Summit and somebody actually showed up? It was a crazy idea. One mining CEO who was there for the conversation wanted to boost his personal fortunes by boosting the fortunes of the Silver Valley. Nothing un-altruistic about that. We found our way to the can, figuring that by the time we returned the conversation would have taken a less idiotic bent. It had not. Full Story |
Is the General Stock Market Overbought and What Does It Mean for Silver and Gold?
By: Przemyslaw Radomski | 30 August, 2009
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| This week the precious metals sector moved higher; silver rallied on strong volume, which may mark a beginning of a new substantial upleg. Gold is currently in a cloudy technical situation, and much depends on what happens in other markets. Full Story |
Gene Arensberg Letter to the CFTC
By: Gene Arensberg | 11 August, 2009
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| If the CFTC actually does want to insure fair and free markets, then it will not install unreasonably small limits on one side of the market and not the other. We expect that if the Commission does set limits which unduly restrict liquidity, it will result in market flight to less regulated, more opaque markets and considerably less transparency, permanently. Full Story |
Is Silver Overvalued, Undervalued Or Priced Just Right?
By: Bill Downey | 11 August, 2009
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| Long term silver continues its decade long uptrend and is well in the confines of its growth channel. A new channel with a greater slope is trying to establish itself. Should we get a big rally in silver, we expect this channel to provide the major support and resistance areas. Odds continue to favor the upside for silver longer term, but one cannot overlook the potential to touch the lower channel lines every now and then. Full Story |
China Encourages Silver Bullion for Investment [Video]
By: YouTube | 10 August, 2009
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| China has introduced its first-ever investment opportunity for silver bullion. The bars are available in 500 grams, 1 kilogram, 2 kilograms and 5 kilograms with a purity of 99.9 percent. Full Story |
Market Timing Report - Silver
By: Alistair Gilbert | 10 August, 2009
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| Silver was decimated in last year’s market rout falling by over 80% in just seven months. Part of the reason is that it is not just bought for investment or jewellery purposes but is an industrial metal as well. Most people think of its industrial use in photography, but in fact it has myriad uses in the medical field because of its antibacterial qualities and more recently in creating superfibres for the clothing industry. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 7 August, 2009
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| The fundamentals are in place for silver and gold to move higher. The ongoing issuance of US treasuries and further quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve inevitably point to continued dollar weakness. The interesting fact that the Fed stepped in recently to indirectly buy some of the auctioned bonds points to a decreasing lack of investor appetite for US debt. Full Story |
Recent News and Silver
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 23 July, 2009
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| Or more aptly some items of news and rumors which may have an impact on silver (and gold). The first is clear enough and is not rumor. Next Tuesday (28th July) the CFTC will begin its hearings into discussing position limits in energy commodities as well as the exemptions some so called hedgers enjoy when they multiply their futures contracts even more. Full Story |
The Silver Supply/Demand Imbalance
By: Richard Daughty, The Mogambo Guru | 16 July, 2009
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| I try not to think about silver, because when I do, my head ends up whirling around at the sheer compelling nature of the fundamentals, and I always come to the conclusions that whirling makes me dizzy and that I need to buy more silver right away because silver is going to start exploding in price over the next few years... Full Story |
A Master Stroke of Silver Manipulation
By: Richard Daughty, The Mogambo Guru | 9 July, 2009
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| The point of all of this is that the Happy Days for the slimy insiders in the silver futures and options market, and those glorious days when you and I could buy ounce after ounce silver at these low, low, unheard-of low prices, are almost certainly all gone, now that the Senate has found willful corruption, and so the day will soon come when silver, free from the slimy manipulations of insiders that one could even argue violate the 14th Amendment, will rise, perhaps a dozen-fold, in price, re-establishing the 16:1 ratio of silver to gold, which will also be, almost certainly, up. Full Story |
Silver Takes on Gold Supremecy
By: Richard Daughty, The Mogambo Guru | 2 July, 2009
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| Mark at Northwest Territorial Mint suggests that instead of me always yammering about buying “gold, silver and oil”, maybe I should switch to “silver, gold and oil”, which he deems “might even merit an exclamation point” since silver should precede gold in the lineup since silver is probably the most astoundingly under-priced element on the face of the planet! Full Story |
The Silver Indexed Bond
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 30 June, 2009
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| What is a silver indexed bond and how does it work? Quite simply, a silver indexed bond is like a normal bond that is bought for an initial sum (the principal or capital) and interest is paid on it until a maturity date. Where it differs from a normal bond is the option which allows the bearer to convert the bond into an agreed amount of silver or the cash equivalent if certain conditions prevail. Full Story |
Silver and the US Dollar
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 22 June, 2009
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| Things look like they are moving to some kind of resolution on where silver is headed. The main bellwether for where silver goes is not gold but the US Dollar. The two charts below of the US Dollar Index and silver for the same time periods show how these two asset classes are moving in opposite directions. First silver which has dropped about 15% in 19 days. Full Story |
Silver Stocks: Cheaper is Better
By: Andrew Mickey, Q1 Publishing | 15 June, 2009
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| Right now, silver is in great position to do well over the short-term and long-term. It has all the attributes to perform in any type of economic environment. Whether we face deflation (and the inflationary money printing to offset it), inflation, or hyperinflation, silver (and therefore silver stocks) is set to go much higher. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 15 June, 2009
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| A week or so ago we gave the short term view of silver that a decent sized top was in. Our first choice Elliott wave pattern (see below) looked complete as you can see from the chart we reproduce below. We had an alternate wave count which would be invalidated if it went below $14.80. That has now happened so the first choice count is vindicated. Full Story |
Mike Kachanovsky: Silver's Scarcity Premium
By: The Gold Report and Mike Kachanovsky | 9 June, 2009
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| 'Silver and gold, silver and gold'. . .what to invest in—silver or gold? Investors on either side of this long-running debate are passionate about their precious metal of choice. But are they looking—or listening—to the right indicators? In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Mike Kachanovsky, aka 'Mexico Mike' from his Investor's Digest of Canada column, discusses historical changes in the gold-to-silver price ratio, shrinking supply. . .and what to buy. Full Story |
Silver Slips Out Of Backwardation
By: Trace Mayer, J.D. | 7 June, 2009
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| Gold and silver are made for each other like peanut butter and jelly or milk and cookies. The ’sweat of the sun’ and ‘tears of the moon’ have served as money and currency for millennia. At all times and in all circumstances they remain money. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 4 June, 2009
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| Having looked out to months if not years and decades in our last article, we shift to the other end of the scale and how the eight hour chart of silver is going. I mentioned a near top to subscribers recently and one target price was the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement of the entire March to November 2008 drop. On the NYSE that drop was $20.90 to $8.79 and if we do our sums that retracement comes out at $16.27. Yesterday silver got as high as $16.23 and has reacted to the downside with a dollar drop so far. Full Story |
Precious Metals: Too Far Too Fast? What’s Likely to Happen Now?
By: Przemyslaw Radomski | 3 June, 2009
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| The precious metals market has been rallying very strongly in the past several weeks, which has happily contributed to increasing our net worth through our long-term holdings. Still, at the moment, it seems that the prices of precious metals and corresponding stocks have gone too high, too fast, and a healthy correction is likely. Full Story |
Gold Investments Market Update - as Cool as Silver
By: Bullion Services Team | 2 June, 2009
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| Commodities across the board rallied significantly yesterday on signs of economic recovery that heralded the return of risk appetite. The upshot of this meant that the beleaguered dollar had another punishing day and this weakness pushed gold to $988.50. The next level of resistance is $999, with the $1000 mark likely to be breached soon thereafter. Gold's monthly close of $978.90 is bullish and shows that its current rally is sustainable. Silver touched $15.63 and has had its largest monthly increase since 1987 - up 27% for the month of May. Full Story |
World Silver Survey – 2009 Commentary
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold/Silver Forecaster - Global Watch | 1 June, 2009
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| There is no reason why long-term investment demand for silver should not continue in the rest of 2009. Investor activity that was the main driver of high silver prices last year will continue to demonstrate strength this year. At the Silver Forecaster, we agree with this conclusion but suggest that the general tone of the market will become more volatile as uncertainty grows, punctuated by bouts of optimism encouraged by global financial powers and governments. Full Story |
Where Is Silver Heading?
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 31 May, 2009
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| Excitement has returned to the silver market as the sister metal of gold advances to highs not seen for ten months. Where is silver headed? Will it take out $21 with ease and head onto highs that evoke memories of 1979? Full Story |
Silver shines and will continue to out perform gold
By: Peter Cooper, Arabian Money | 30 May, 2009
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| Should a bold investor therefore switch entirely into silver and out of gold? It depends how much volatility you can handle, and diversification is preferable if you want to be able to sleep at night. Silver was a little over $8 an ounce at the end of last year, though admittedly many investments hit low points then, but gold held up much better. Full Story |
Silver Is Starting to Look Dull at Current Prices
By: Chris Vermeulen | 28 May, 2009
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| The technical outlook on the silver market does not look all that strong when looking from a distance. I like to keep eye on the longer term trend lines for possible support and resistance levels which are easily missed if you only follow the daily charts. Full Story |
What Moves Up 3 Times Faster Than Gold?
By: Andrew Mickey, Q1 Publishing | 27 May, 2009
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| The excitement surrounding gold’s surge has only pushed silver further onto the back burner. (You don’t hear about any major hedge funds loading up on silver do you?) And that’s the point. Gold is hot and silver is – in a relative sense - not. Full Story |
Silvermex Makes Strategic Acquisition of Neighbouring Rosario Silver Mine
By: Silvermex Resources Ltd. | 22 May, 2009
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| Silvermex Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SMR - News; the "Company" or "Silvermex") is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement with Aurcana Corporation (TSX VENTURE:AUN - News; "Aurcana") to acquire a 100% interest in the silver -- gold -- lead -- zinc Rosario Property ("Rosario Property") located in south eastern Sinaloa State, Mexico. The Rosario Property consists of 18 concessions totaling approximately 8,515 hectares and is located approximately 94 kilometres southeast of Mazatlan. The property is strategically located within 2 kilometres of Silvermex's 1,250 hectare San Marcial Silver property. Full Story |
Some Things Never Change
By: Warren Bevan | 20 May, 2009
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| Last week GFMS and the Silver Institute released their annual press release which sums up the basic supply demand equation. GFMS is renowned for their bearish stance on gold and silver and have been very conservative and wrong for the duration of this precious metals bull market. They are still singing the same old song this year and are calling for more downward pressure than upward. Some things never change. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 20 May, 2009
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| I recommend this GSR RSI approach as a useful addition to the gold and silver investor’s toolbox but only in the context of other metrics (some of which I make available to subscribers). Let me wrap this up by saying that silver is still in an overall bear market since March 2008. Previous corrections after silver price spikes in 2004 and 2006 suggest silver will not decisively take out its $21 high for a while yet but nevertheless, the ongoing rally since November 2008 is not over yet and in that sense we remain bullish into the new few months. Full Story |
Silver Summit Relocates to World's Grandest Mining Venue
By: David Bond | 17 May, 2009
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| Silver Summit 2009 is moving to a new venue, the historic Davenport Hotel in downtown Spokane, Washington, with fresh new stars. Conference dates are Sept. 24 and 25. Full Story |
The Silver Phoenix Rises From the Ashes of the American Revolution
By: Michael R Stoddard | 13 May, 2009
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| It's a chilly early December afternoon in Boston in the Year of our Lord 1773. You have been visited by an old friend who is a member of the Sons of Liberty. Asa gave you the appropriate secret SOL password, sign and handshake. Not that he needed to. You have been close friends since your youth when you both served on John Hancock's smuggling ship named Tyrannicide. Full Story |
Silver Mom sends eBay packing: ThomWatch
By: Thom Calandra | 8 May, 2009
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| The mom who wants to put a silver spoon in everyone’s mouth just sent eBay packing. Joyce Espinosa, who mothered a brood of silver bullion aficionados, says her Mom’s Silver Shop is on its own. No more middle-Bay, AKA eBay. Full Story |
Silver Leads Gold as Dollar Teeters
By: Jim Willie CB | 7 May, 2009
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| In a bizarre exercise intended to defend legitimacy, the bankers are engaged in a complex game of propaganda. They pressured the USCongress to relieve Wall Street from the chains of FASB Rule #157, and the senators & representatives obeyed their paying masters. The result has been a baseless stock rally led by insolvent banks that have lied desperately about their capital and earnings. The announced audited Citigroup profit of $1.6 billion in the first quarter was actually a deep $2.5 billion loss, provided the $4.1 billion in gimmickry was removed. Full Story |
The Silver Phoenix is Rising Again
By: Michael R Stoddard | 7 May, 2009
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| I wish I had a troy ounce of silver for every time I have encountered those questions on the net! Newsflash, the prestigious ISO (International Organization for Standardization) has set the standards for international currencies. Silver and gold are listed by the ISO as currencies. A fascinating quick resource for information regarding currency ISO 4217 is Wikipedia of course. Full Story |
How to Leverage Up Silver with Stocks
By: Peter J. Cooper | 7 May, 2009
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| The stupid way to leverage silver is to go out and borrow money to invest in this highly volatile commodity. A much more sensible approach is to buy silver producers and explorers whose share prices are leveraged against the price of the precious metal. Full Story |
Is Silver The New Magic Bullet for Investors?
By: Peter J. Cooper | 4 May, 2009
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| When the gold price lifts off then the silver price should take off by at least a factor of two, and the gold:silver ratio drop. This is also the historic pattern, with silver the better performing metal in a boom, albeit with higher volatility than gold. So if you are looking for a magic bullet to boost your portfolio, silver should be your asset class of choice. Full Story |
A Loverly Day in the Neighbourhood
By: David Bond | 20 April, 2009
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| As sure as our daffodils and tulips will follow our spray of crocus, as sure as Solstice warmth will follow the May and June rains ahead, even as sure as the sun sets on Western hegemony and Empire, even as it rises on an Asia that understands that metals win all wars and that silver and gold keep score, and the companies who mine and look for silver have their sunshine day a-coming. Plant and propagate your bulbs accordingly, and watch them multiply, before the soil hardens and the brown-shirts rip them out. Full Story |
Will Silver Now Start To Outperform Gold?
By: Peter J. Cooper | 9 April, 2009
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| Precious metal fans face a conundrum in choosing to buy silver rather than gold: silver prices are more volatile but have always outperformed gold prices in previous financial crises. So you might sleep better as an investor in gold but ultimately lose out to silver. An equal split asset allocation is one way of hedging sleep and performance. Full Story |
Commissioner Chilton’s Response to Reader Emails
By: Bart Chilton | 31 March, 2009
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| Thank you for your e-mail regarding silver. As many know, I called for an open hearing, and then for the investigation, which was announced last September. This is the first such investigation in many years. It is detailed and deep, looking at many aspects of the markets. The Commission has been briefed periodically on the investigation and I have had many additional meetings on the matter. We are making progress and I am pleased that the investigation is ongoing. Full Story |
Silver Backwardation Bout Ends as SLV Fails to Announce its New Custodian (PART 2/2)
By: Jake Towne | 30 March, 2009
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| This article and charts is an update to an earlier article "18 Days and Counting - Silver Backwardation Persists in the London Market Place". In "Silver and Gold ARE Money (PART 1/2)", I charged that both silver and gold are money and shared information on the very important concept of gold's "stocks-to-flow" ratio and the size of the LBMA markets for both metals. Full Story |
Silver and Gold New Rally Underway
By: Timothy Silvers | 26 March, 2009
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| Longer term outlook for the dollar is pretty poor, as the federal government is creating money out of thin air as if by magic. The projected budget deficits and implied increase in the public debt are astounding, and I think their budget numbers are wildly optimistic. Where on earth is the money going to come from to pay back the debt??? Full Story |
Dow 3800 and SILVER better than GOLD? - Bob Chapman on GoldSeek Radio
By: GoldSeek Radio | 20 March, 2009
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| Bob Chapman on GoldSeek Radio 02/20/2009. Dollar will go down when deflation rolls over into inflation. The moment inflation kicks off, SILVER WILL BE YOUR BEST INVESTMENT. Full Story |
Making Silver Coins [Video]
By: SilverSeek.com | 3 March, 2009
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| From the Discovery Channel's "How It's Made" Program Full Story |
Five Weeks Of Silver Backwardation
By: Trace Mayer, J.D. | 25 February, 2009
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| What is the real silver price? With the specter of counter-party risk driving silver into backwardation if there is a failure to deliver then it will likely cause the silver price to shift from the COMEX just like a failure to deliver would cause the gold price to shift from the COMEX. Full Story |
Silver and Gold Short Term Top
By: Timothy Silvers | 25 February, 2009
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| Right now I am looking for a consolidation that will take us down to neutral RSI levels. This will probably correspond to approximately $930 gold and $12.75 silver. If those levels don’t hold, then we’ll be heading back down to the low end of the trend channel at $880 gold and $11.75 silver. This correction will setup the next upward move where gold will take out its previous high of $1033 (spot price) and silver should trade in the $15-16 range or higher. I expect this will happen by the end of March or early April. As was true this past month, I believe that silver will have a greater percent price rise from the next bottom to top than gold. Full Story |
Yousa! Eight Thousand Tonnes!
By: Tim Iacono | 23 February, 2009
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| The folks over at the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE:SLV) were quite busy last week, adding a total of 420 tonnes of silver to their stash, pushing the inventory at the world's most popular silver ETF above the 8,000 tonne level for the first time ever. Full Story |
New Record in Silver ETF iShares Trust
By: SilverForecaster.com | 20 February, 2009
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| Total Ounces in the iShares Silver Trust ETF: 253,146,836.9 +15.9% Increase YTD | +55.2% Increase Over Past Year Full Story |
18 Days and Counting - Silver Backwardation Persists in the London Market Place
By: Jake Towne | 14 February, 2009
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| "Peering through reverent fingers I watch [the Gods of the Market Place] flourish and fall. And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all." - Rudyard Kipling Full Story |
Will Silver Now Outperform Gold?
By: Peter J. Cooper | 14 February, 2009
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| The closing price for silver this week is $13.70 while gold is at $941 per ounce. Precious metal prices are clearly in a rally, and a fairly gentle and sustainable one, rather than a price spike. And yet silver is out performing gold. By my approximate calculations silver has risen about four times faster than the yellow metal over the past few weeks. Full Story |
Update on the Gold Silver Ratio
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 2 February, 2009
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| At one extreme, when the GSR hits 15 at the climax of a multi decade silver bull market (as in 1964-1980) it is time to seriously think about selling. When the other extreme is hit and silver is suffering in a deflationary bust, it is nigh on time to buy such as 1993 when the GSR hit 100 (only the second time in 200 years that such an event occurred). At a current value of 73 things may seem oversold for silver in GSR terms and one would have a justification for that looking at the 14 year chart below (silver price in red). Full Story |
Silver in Backwardation! Has the Last Contango Been Danced in Washington?
By: Jake Towne | 31 January, 2009
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| The LBMA Silver Mid Rate goes negative AGAIN!!!! Read on to see why I used 4 exclamation points. Full Story |
GATA's Message on Gold and Silver Manipulation to Barack Obama (PART 2/2)
By: Jake Towne | 30 January, 2009
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| "Surreptitious market manipulation by government is leading the world to disaster." - GATA, the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee in a $264K full-page color ad in the Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2008 Full Story |
New Inventory High at the Silver ETF
By: Tim Iacono | 27 January, 2009
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| Like its big golden brother, the iShares Silver Shares ETF (SLV) is now regularly making new all-time highs, the latest move coming yesterday with the addition of 199 tonnes. This brings the net gain to 550 tonnes so far in 2009. Full Story |
Think Gold Premiums Are High? Wait Till You See Silver!
By: Stefan Pernar | 27 January, 2009
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| In order to examine similar effects on the premium of 1 ounce silver american eagle bullion coins I used the same method and analyzed silver eagles sold on eBay from early March 2008 until today and had some interesting results. After painstakingly cleaning up the data to remove items of primarily numismatic value - such as graded and proof coins - a massive 249′317 sold ounces (data available upon request) yielded the following picture and speaks volumes in regards to what kind of premiums buyers are willing to pay for real silver: Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 26 January, 2009
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| Silver continues to lag behind gold as the two metals in general struggle against this deflationary setting. Gold has benefitted from some of the fears regarding the stability of the credit and banking system but not enough to propel it to new highs. Full Story |
Silver and Gold Breakout Soon?
By: Timothy Silvers | 26 January, 2009
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| On Thursday the 15th, both gold and silver tested the lower channel trend line for the third day and then staged a nice rally on Friday. This rally was sharp and convincingly confirmed by the closing values this week. While I believe the bottom is in, there is still time to buy gold and silver before they breakout to the upside. The charts below show the current trend channels for gold and silver and the next levels of resistance. Full Story |
Silver ETF Reaches New Inventory High
By: Tim Iacono | 13 January, 2009
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| If only the futures price would catch on to what has been happening over the last year or so at the world's largest silver ETF, the iShares Silver Trust (NYSEArca:SLV). With a massive addition of 218 tonnes on Friday, inventory reached a new all-time high of 7,063 tonnes. Full Story |
Gold Investments Market Update - Silver Up 17% in Month but Remains Very Oversold
By: Gold Investments | 6 January, 2009
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| Gold has fallen again today and is down some 1% but continues to consolidate between $830/oz and $890/oz. Gold should remain well bid given the degree of international macroeconomic and geopolitical risk challenging us as we enter the New Year. The Middle East tensions continue to escalate and oil is up another 2.5% again today to some $50 per barrel again. Silver has outperformed even gold in the last 30 days and is trading very well – up nearly 17% versus gold’s rise of 12%. Full Story |
Silver - The Cure for AIDS
By: Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution | 29 December, 2008
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| So in plain English, this silver doohickey fries AIDS. This patent was filed in 1996. Dr. Antelman lists therein two examples where several test subjects in Honduras in late stages of AIDS all had the virus destroyed by the Tetrasil/Imusil treatment, although several still died from the damage from the diseases that the AIDS virus allowed to evolve. Full Story |
Feedback on High Silver Premiums
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 18 December, 2008
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| This article is intended as a follow up to the large number of emails I received after my article on high premiums on retail bullion silver. Needless to say, not everyone was in agreement with me and that was the majority! Full Story |
Silver, But No Silver Lining
By: Robert Singer | 10 December, 2008
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| The end of our consumer society is on the horizon, which should be no surprise to anyone who took Economics 101. Do we really expect to spend our way out of this mess by buying and selling each other useless cheap stuff from China? Full Story |
Why Pay High Silver Premiums?
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 2 December, 2008
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| Why is there no high premium on 1000 oz bars? The answer is because there is plenty of them to be had - the more common the item, the lower the premium. The scarcity of small investor silver is not a shortage of silver, it is a shortage of small pieces of silver pressed and stamped into pretty pictures. Full Story |
Blowing Off the Froth
By: David Bond, Editor, The Silver Valley Mining Journal | 26 November, 2008
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| They only refuges in this market are an asset play or an earnings play. There are legitimate mining companies trading close to, or even below, a 1:1 price/earnings ratio. In other words, the cost of a single share is equal to or less than a single year's payback in dividends or earnings. The other way is to evaluate their properties, divide them over their current market cap, and decide accordingly. Full Story |
The Extremes of Silver
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 24 November, 2008
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| I don’t think silver watchers need to be reminded of what has happened to silver in the last 8 months. The only answer they are looking for is when will we see a bottom to this carnage? As I look at my 14 member silver stock index, it has dropped from a high of 8.69 on the 3rd March 2008 to a new low of 1.31 as of last Thursday. That is a drop of 85% - cataclysmic by any standard of investing. Full Story |
Silver ETF for Dubai as they fly in bullion for the Hunts of Arabia
By: Peter J. Cooper | 18 November, 2008
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| The Dubai Multi Commodities Center is understood to be putting the finishing touches to an exchange traded fund for silver with a launch likely next month as demand for silver has surged in the past six months. Full Story |
Munich Musings
By: David Bond, The Wallace Street Journal | 11 November, 2008
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| Munich – OlympiaPark, built for the 1972 Summer Olympics here in Munchen, looks a little tired and dog-eared these days, not a lot different from the state of the gold and silver markets – equities and physicals. But scratch beneath the pallid paint and weather-stained concrete a tad, as we did at Frank and Jan's excellent adventure, the just-concluded 2008 Edelmetall & Rohstoffmesse precious metals and resource show, and all hell is breaking loose. Full Story |
Silver still buys a good dinner in ancient Petra
By: Peter Cooper | 11 November, 2008
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| The other day I was reading some article which claimed that silver could no longer be considered a currency. Yet silver certainly was a currency in ancient and more modern times, and has retained its value. Full Story |
Why Jim Rogers chooses silver over gold to beat inflation
By: Peter J. Cooper | 10 November, 2008
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| Legendary investor Jim Rogers, whose conversion to commodities as an investment class back in 1999 preceded the end of the 20-year bear market by a couple of months, is backing silver over gold as an asset class to beat inflation. Full Story |
Is the silver futures market about to crack wide open?
By: Peter J. Cooper | 3 November, 2008
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| The silver market has been looking interesting for months, despite the price collapse. Beneath the surface of the recent spot price falls the structure of the market is changing in such a way that a powerful bull market is being set up. Full Story |
Premium for Silver Coins Soars
By: Tim Iacono | 31 October, 2008
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| Look what's happened to the premium for 90 percent silver coins at one coin dealer - from about a dollar under spot to three dollars over spot in just the last few months. And these are their buy prices - their sell prices are a dollar or two an ounce higher. Full Story |
Banco Azteca: New policy on purchase and sale of silver ‘Libertad’ coins
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 30 October, 2008
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| We believe the restriction of supply in silver ounces is meant to deprive the Mexican population of the possibility of seeking refuge in silver as a protection against financial and economic carnage, and to force Mexicans into depositing their savings in the Banking System, with its risks. Full Story |
Yes, We Have No Silver
By: Sean Brodrick | 22 October, 2008
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| As the price of silver pulled back under $10 an ounce recently, I started loading up on the white metal. Or, I should say, I tried to load up. While I was easily able to buy silver coins with numismatic value, my first attempts to buy silver bullion coins met with frustration. I think this says a lot about the silver market right now. On paper, it’s cheap. But in the real, physical market, silver is getting very precious indeed. Full Story |
Silver: Gap Between Paper and Physical Prices Widening Daily
By: Tim Iacono | 16 October, 2008
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| We were out for most of the day yesterday, so, I called into California Numismatics' 24-hour toll free recording to find out what happened in precious metals markets. What I heard was quite shocking and the chart below only tells half the story of how the gap between paper prices and physical prices is widening almost daily Full Story |
Viva Silver!
By: Vincent Bressler | 16 October, 2008
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| Watch the premium on 90% and 40% US silver coins, first over and above the fraudulent COMEX price, and then, after COMEX defaults, over and above 100 ounce silver bars. That premium has been zero or negative until very recently. That premium is the "monetary" premium in silver. As this plays out, the premium on 90% and 40% silver coins will greatly exceed the premium on 100 ounce silver bars. These old quarters, dimes and half dollars will be the people's money. I don't see any other way out of this deep dark place. Full Story |
Is it time to play the silver to gold ratio again?
By: Peter Degraaf | 13 October, 2008
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| Historically (1808 – 2008), the ratio between gold and silver has been 33 ounces of silver equals one ounce of gold. More recently, say 1978 – 2008, the ratio has widened to on average, 60 ounces of silver buys one ounce of gold. At the extremes the ratio fell to 17:1 in 1980 as both metals peaked; and rose to 100:1 in 1991 during the depth of the recession. Full Story |
The S&P500 and Silver
By: Roland Watson | 6 October, 2008
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| Note that silver does not do well during the recessionary periods in grey bars. I see no reason for that to change and am actually surprised we haven’t entered recession already. When recession blows over and the main economic health indicators begins to flash green again we will be back into silver and look forward to more upside as inflation again begins to assert itself across the board. Full Story |
Best outlook for silver since the days of the Hunt brothers
By: Peter J. Cooper | 26 September, 2008
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| Not since the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market in the late 1970s has there been more dramatic news for silver prices than last week’s confirmation from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission enforcement division is investigating the silver market. Full Story |
The Rebirth of Gold and Silver
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 10 September, 2008
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| Silver investors out there are chewing their fingers to the bone; they want something solid to put their feet on. The ultimate comfort is the confidence Elliott wave theory gives to see this coming and also point further ahead to events not only beyond this first bull leg but beyond to a glorious finale for silver, gold and any other asset that rallies itself against the loose foundation of fiat money. Full Story |
Silver: How low will it go?
By: Peter Forth | 7 September, 2008
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| There is no question that precious metals have been pummeled lately and anyone who has been long the sector has seen their portfolios bleed red. As of Friday, Sep 5 2008 silver closed down nearly 5% at a new 12 month low. It has decisively broken through lows set earlier in the summer and is in a technically poor pattern. Full Story |
Jon Nadler proves Precious Metals manipulation (no really, he does…)
By: C. Loeb | 5 September, 2008
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| A recent posting by Ted Butler analyzing the sudden sale of an additional 27,606 COMEX silver contracts by 2 banks as of August 5th has created renewed interest in the possibility that COMEX silver is manipulated. Not surprising, given a $6.00 collapse in silver concomitant with the placing of this short side bet. Full Story |
Silver Stats that Will Make You Salivate
By: Richard Daughty, The MOGAMBO GURU | 2 September, 2008
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| I'm a guy who is an investor in silver, and who would be a BIGGER investor in silver if my stubborn wife was more reasonable about how to apportion my pitiful income among the various clamoring creditors and greedy children… Full Story |
The Usual Suspects After All
By: Tom Szabo | 28 August, 2008
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| JPMorgan and HSBC are obviously huge individual players in the gold and silver markets and that includes the COMEX. The Call Reports prove, I believe, without a shadow of a doubt that these two U.S. banks constitute a significant portion, and probably the outright majority, of commercial short positions (both gross and net) in COMEX gold and silver futures. That might get the conspiracy-minded among us to start hootin’ and hollerin’, but I do want to point out that JPMorgan and HSBC have a much larger book of forward gold and silver contracts than they do COMEX gold and silver contracts. As a result, it is impossible to conclude with any degree of certainty that the COMEX gold and silver short positions are not in fact hedges of forward gold and silver long positions. Full Story |
Once-Upon-A-Time, In ‘Never-Never’ Land, There Were Two Competing Silver Prices
By: Peter Degraaf | 26 August, 2008
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| These two silver prices were at loggerheads with each other. Every time the ‘real’ silver price began to rise, a ‘paper’ silver price would show up in large quantities and scare some of the holders of real silver to dump and run. Full Story |
Trading at Cash Value - Or Less
By: SilverSeek.com | 25 August, 2008
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| In another sign that investors are shunning metals and mining stocks, publicly traded companies are now trading at their cash value - or less. Essentially, this means the market is valuing properties - both exploration and producing assets - at zero. Look at Mega Silver (MSR-TSXv). With a stock price of 43 cents, it has a $13 million market cap - and cash of $13 million. Full Story |
Silver Summit 2008 to convene 18th September in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
By: Silver Summit 2008 | 21 August, 2008
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| Keynote speakers include Jeffrey M. Christian, managing director of the CPM Group; “Trader Roger” Wiegand of Trade Tracks Stocks; David Morgan, of the Morgan Report (formerly Silver-Investor); James Turk, founder of GoldMoney; Bill Murphy, chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Committee (GATA); author Norm Franz; Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus; and Alexander Korelin, founder of A.B. Korelin & Associates and host of the popular radio program, the Korelin Economics Report. Full Story |
Oh, Now I Get It!
By: Tom Szabo | 21 August, 2008
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| With SLV baskets more like water now than sand, we may see the premier silver ETF go on an absolute gobbling spree in the months ahead. This on top of SLV being possibly one of the most strongly held investment vehicles out there with virtually no decline in its holdings after a 40%+ price drop. The future of SLV and silver could be quite interesting! Full Story |
The New Silver: Now Made with Real Paper
By: Richard Daughty, The MOGAMBO GURU | 21 August, 2008
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| So, from now on, if you ever want to buy some silver, MSS will sell it to you at the lowest price possible; the spot price! All you have to do is just send the money to me, in cash, in a plain brown envelope addressed to 'Occupant', and I will gladly send you a piece of paper that says I sold you some silver. Full Story |
Let's Be Hunts
By: David Bond, Editor The Silver Valley Mining Journal | 17 August, 2008
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| Ask delivery of $12.80 silver and $790 gold, today. There are 300 million of us. A single ounce of physical silver for every man, woman and child in the United Snakes would squeeze these rat-bastards harder than the Hunts could ever do. There were two Hunt brothers in 1979. There are 300 million of us in 2008. Even in this country, there aren't enough jail cells to hold us all. And we could take their pants off, once and for all. Full Story |
Silver Shortage? What, Me Worry?
By: David Bond, Editor The Silver Valley Mining Journal | 15 August, 2008
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| We find this quite curious. It seems that when the price of silver is low, there is a shortage of silver, because people can't get enough of the white metal. When the price of silver is high, there is a shortage of silver, because folks can't get enough of it. Would it be too much of a reach to surmise that there's just a plain shortage of silver? Full Story |
silberinfo Interview with United States Mint
By: silberinfo | 18 July, 2008
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| The United States Mint's capacity to produce American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins is quite large. United States Mint facilities have sufficient production capacity to meet the unprecedented demand for these coins. However, we have encountered challenges in acquiring enough silver blanks that meet the exacting specifications of the American Eagle Silver Bullion Coin Program to fulfill the current high demand. Full Story |
Local coin shop runs out of silver bullion coins
By: Peter J. Cooper | 18 July, 2008
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| Yesterday I visited the local coin shop in my home town, Salisbury in England and while full of interesting medals and collectables something was missing this year. The coin counter had shrunken to a small selection in the corner. Full Story |
Bingo!
By: Doug French, Liberty Watch Magazine | 8 July, 2008
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| A quarter weighs about a fifth of an ounce. At today’s silver price of around $18 per ounce, the 1963 quarter had the equivalent of today’s $3.24 of silver in it. Thus, silver essentially buys the same amount of gasoline today that it did 45 years ago. Full Story |
Will Arabian investors do a Hunt to silver?
By: Peter J. Cooper | 7 July, 2008
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| If gold has bright prospects due to inflation over the next couple of years, then silver shines even brighter. For in previous periods of financial turmoil and high inflation silver has always out performed gold by a factor of more than two. It is only the volatility of silver prices which puts investors off. But that is increasingly seen as a small price to pay for out performance. Full Story |
Silver Delivery "Delays"
By: Stephen Kovaka, CPA | 24 June, 2008
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| For many years, silver commentators have warned us that someday supplies of silver would dry up, inasmuch as net industrial use plus investor demand have long exceeded new mine production. At this point we could expect to see some combination of shortages and price increases, and probably chaotic market conditions. Full Story |
Dynamics of the Silver Price Revolution
By: Vincent Bressler | 14 June, 2008
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| Recently, when silver was topping out at around $21 per ounce, there was an acute shortage of silver available for investing. This investment demand problem threatened to kick silver into an industrial deficit driven price revolution. The problem was resolved via unofficial rationing. New silver eagles and new 100 ounce bars have become increasingly unavailable since that time. Full Story |
Will the Hunts buy silver again after selling Hunt Petroleum?
By: Peter J. Cooper | 12 June, 2008
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| This week XTO Energy finally agreed to buy Hunt Petroleum for $4.2 billion after a long legal tussle between Hunt family heirs. The firm was founded by the late billionaire HL Hunt whose sons Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt once cornered the world silver market in the 1970s. Full Story |
Putting Loincloth on the Naked Bogeyman
By: Antal E. Fekete | 11 June, 2008
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| I started writing this piece as the sub-prime crisis was unfolding. I wanted to establish the connection between the silver basis and the budding banking crisis caused by phony bond insurance schemes and the lack of hedging irredeemable dollar debt with metal holdings. My original title was Putting Clothes on the Naked Bogeyman. As writing progressed I realized that it would take more than one article to dress up the bogeyman; hence the revised title. Full Story |
silberinfo interview with Royal Canadian Mint
By: silberinfo | 6 June, 2008
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| David, we would like to talk about the Silver Bullion Maple Leaf first. In Germany, it is a huge success. Could you tell us, what the approximate percentage of the sales in Germany from the total sales would be? Full Story |
US Mint Issues False Statement on Silver Bullion Sourcing
By: Bix Weir | 6 June, 2008
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| There is no reference to silver bullion having to be “newly mined” or being sourced domestically in the US coinage law 31USC5112, but there are specific laws passed to ensure that there is NO LIMITATION on the silver bullion available for the US Silver Eagle Program. Full Story |
Open Lawyer's Letter to Bart Chilton, CFTC Commissioner
By: Avery B. Goodman | 6 June, 2008
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| In a report, dated May 13, 2008, CFTC staff allegedly “investigated” the functioning of the silver futures market. Their conclusion was that it is functioning properly. Unfortunately, the investigation was woefully flawed. Staff failed to inquire into the most basic issues. They didn’t ask for warehouse receipts, didn’t inspect alleged warehouses, didn’t count the bars of silver, and, in fact, didn’t do any accounting at all, with respect to the alleged silver that is supposed to cover derivative dealer futures contracts. Full Story |
US Silver Eagles Illegally Rationed
By: Bix Weir | 4 June, 2008
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| The law is clear that the silver coins must be supplied to the US public in "quantities sufficient to meet public demand" EVEN IF it means the US Mint drives up the price of silver bullion on the open market in order to obtain the silver needed to produce the US Silver Eagles. Full Story |
Tracking the Re-Monetization of Silver
By: Vincent Bressler | 2 June, 2008
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| Silver has been thoroughly de-monetized. The best way to observe this phenomenon is by looking at the above ground stock of silver. Many words have been written on this subject over the last ten years by Ted Butler and others. Let me simply state that that there is very little above ground silver left in the world, perhaps less than 1% of what there used to be. Full Story |
Profit From Crisis in the Silver Market and Help Defeat the Cartel
By: Deepcaster | 30 May, 2008
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| That there is a Crisis in the Silver Market is clear. Deepcaster recommends that all those who do not believe there is such a Crisis try to take delivery of Physical Silver. Attempting to take delivery of Physical Silver will likely provide a dose of Reality Therapy. Delivery delays are common, with delays for delivery of 100 oz. Bars running 6 to 8 weeks, for example. Full Story |
Road to Roota VI: CFTC Silver Manipulation Investigation...6 Strikes and yer out!
By: Bix Weir | 30 May, 2008
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| In my opinion the CFTC made no attempt to investigate the potential that the commentators and investors claiming silver manipulation could actually be correct. There was no analysis of the silver market fundamentals, no investigation (or audits) into physical silver available for delivery against the short positions, no investigation of potential collusion between the 8 largest shorts, no analysis of silver leasing, swapping or lending, no interviews with market analysts or commentators, no analysis of silver market slam events and no attempt to explain the COMEX silver crime committed on May 17-20, 2008. Full Story |
Silver Institute Urges U.S. Mint to Stabilize American Eagle Silver Bullion Coinage Program - Consumers Currently Holding Empty Coin Bag
By: Silver Institute | 29 May, 2008
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| Unprecedented investor demand has caused a market shortage for American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins, and the Silver Institute has called on the U.S. Mint to take immediate steps to increase production of this popular physical precious metal investment vehicle. Full Story |
A Trader Tells me there is no Silver Manipulation
By: Jason Hommel, Silver Stock Report | 18 May, 2008
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| Thank you for airing your complaint in a most professional manner. If your arguments are any indication of the level of understanding of the smartest and most well capitalized traders in silver futures, I think you have helped me to make my case that I'm exactly where I want to be, and that I'm doing exactly the right things. Full Story |
Road to Roota V
By: Bix Weir | 16 May, 2008
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| I’m going to say it flat out…SELL ALL YOUR GOLD INVESTMENTS NOW AND BUY PHYSICAL SILVER! This is not a joke and don’t get me wrong, I am the biggest “gold bug” you’ve ever meet, but it is time we ended their evil game. The Cabal has shown their Achilles Heal over the past few months and it is not gold but the depletion of Physical Silver available for delivery that will ultimately lead to their demise. Full Story |
New Study Finds Silver Futures Market is Functioning Properly
By: U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission | 14 May, 2008
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| The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) today released a report that re-examines long-term and recent allegations of misconduct in the silver markets and finds that there is no evidence of manipulation in those markets for the trading period examined. Full Story |
Why Is Canada’s Mint Doubling Its Gold & Silver Debts?
By: Vince Byfield | 6 May, 2008
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| This report is the result of a passing interest in the Royal Canadian Mint’s latest annual report (2007). I wanted to further validate whether silver sales for last year were up substantially and if so, why the Mint’s bullion revenues were not substantially higher. Full Story |
What’s Behind the Slide in Gold and Silver?
By: Gary Dorsch, Editor, Global Money Trends | 1 May, 2008
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| The latest shake-out in silver and gold may have a little further to go, but for investors betting on higher commodity prices in the longer-term, fueled by strong Asian demand, explosive money supply growth, and negative interest rates in the United States, one should recall the advice of the London trading wizard Nathan Rothschild, “The time to buy is when the blood is running in the streets.” Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 25 April, 2008
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| After dropping almost five dollars, silver has reached its 7 month trend line. What will happen now is important to the general silver situation for at least several months. If this line is decisively broken, I see no barrier to stopping silver heading down to its 200 day moving average and then some. If it rallies from here we could see another challenge at the old high of $21 set in March. Full Story |
Dorothy's Silver Slippers
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 23 April, 2008
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| Hugo Salinas Price, president of the Mexican Civic Association for Silver and the world's foremost advocate of restoring silver's role as a circulating currency, addressed GATA's recent conference in Washington by video. His address, "Dorothy's Silver Slippers," detailed his proposal for the issuance of a circulating silver ounce coin for Mexico -- a coin that, not being imprinted with any particular peso value, would never be at risk of withdrawal from circulation because its melt value had come to exceed its face value. Full Story |
silberinfo Interview with Ted Butler
By: Team silberinfo | 18 April, 2008
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| I do know this - silver is still grossly undervalued, because of its supply/demand fundamentals, its relationship to their commodities and in light of the record concentrated shore position. Someday, and I don’t know which day, those things may no longer be true and silver may no longer be undervalued. But that day is not today. Aside from potential short term sell-offs engineered by the big shorts on the COMEX, silver still looks like the best long term investment. Full Story |
Unfounded Allegations Regarding Perth Mint Certificate Program
By: Mark O’Byrne, Gold & Silver Investments Limited | 28 March, 2008
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| Further to recent articles containing unfounded rumours and allegations alleging that the Perth Mint does not have physical precious metals (especially silver) to back its storage programmes or to make deliveries we have received a few phone calls and emails from concerned clientele. Both the Perth Mint and Gold Investments strongly refute these absolutely baseless allegations. Full Story |
Silver and Gold Stocks Revisited
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 28 March, 2008
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| All I can say is that if the credit squeeze fears are finally put aside around the same time gold and silver form their next major bottom then mining stocks may well be the place to be. In other words, if the S&P500 can rally to new highs in the next 12 months while the precious metals gun for their old highs then the HUI and other mining stocks will have the best of both worlds. Full Story |
The Great Silver Sell Out Caper
By: Richard Daughty, The MOGAMBO GURU | 28 March, 2008
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| I know that you think it is such a bargain that you cannot resist, and so I urge you to hurry, hurry, hurry to the Mogambo Silver Storage Service (MSSS), where our motto is, 'Send us the money, then we'll talk.' Full Story |
Buying Silver When There is None Left to Buy
By: The Optimist | 24 March, 2008
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| What could be better last Thursday than to buy some silver at less than $17 per ounce? Just a few days earlier, silver was more than $21, so by Thursday it was trading at almost a 20% discount! What better time could there be to convert depreciating fiat paper into real, beautiful, solid, dependable, and best of all, now cheap physical silver! Full Story |
Are We Out of Cheap Silver?
By: Vincent Bressler | 21 March, 2008
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| While the price of silver in the futures market was falling by 17% this week, coin shops all over the country were running out of silver. We are witnessing a disconnect between the financial markets and reality. Full Story |
The Silver Stocks Situation
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 19 March, 2008
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| Since the August lows when silver hit just over $11 an ounce, we have seen silver surge to $21 for a rough gain of 75%. That is a very good return over 7 months or 92% if annualized. But silver investors had high hopes for another asset class when this bull run began and that was silver mining stocks. Full Story |
Past The Ides of March
By: David Bond, Editor, The Silver Valley Mining Journal | 18 March, 2008
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| So we take the frantic chatter on the financial TV shows perhaps a little less seriously than the folks in the cities and on the coasts. And we take Wall Street's dead cat bounce and the fools who are buying into it this week even less seriously than blowhard Jim Cramer's rant on CNBC just one week ago that “Bear Stearns is just fine.” Full Story |
A Golden Future for Silver
By: Roy Martens | 11 March, 2008
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| Lately, silver has been making huge daily swings, and the big picture is becoming clearer and clearer. If the weekly chart in this month’s update is correct, we are on the verge of completing the presented head and shoulders pattern, triggering a gold-silver ratio of 12 to 14. If the neckline is taken out, we should see the next stage in this cycle occur, i.e. another acceleration in the declining gold-silver ratio. If this transpires, silver producers and explorers could really take off, sending their share prices into orbit. Full Story |
The $5 Silver Blow-Off Is Now
By: David Bond, The Wallace Street Journal | 6 March, 2008
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| What's different between 2008 and 1980 is that the above-described bag of tricks the Nixon-Carter-Reagan crowd were able to hurl at the silver market back then is exhausted now. There is nothing left of it but whole cloth. So when you see silver get to $137/ounce (in 2007-equivalent dollars, whatever those will be) do not fear a 1980-style blow-off. It will, at that point, be just getting warmed up. Full Story |
Predicting the Silver Top
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 3 March, 2008
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| Silver is rocketing, the silver shorts are sweating profusely and silver continues to outperform gold as the next big silver spike begins to take shape. The main question now is at what price will you exit your silver position? Full Story |
Silver Price Trades at Record $20 an ounce
By: SilverSeek.com | 2 March, 2008
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| Denver, Colorado -- The spot price of silver reached new record levels, touching a fresh 28 year peak. The price of silver was quoted bid $20 a troy ounce in overseas trading, surpassing the $20 mark at just after 23:45 Eastern Time, Sunday March 2, 2008. Full Story |
What’s An Investor to Do Now?
By: Michael Kilbach, Investment Score Inc. | 29 February, 2008
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| Currently we are extremely bullish on silver and gold as we have been for many years, but we are not planning on adding to new bullion positions at this time. Why? We think many investors misinterpret a general statement of “being bullish” for meaning that prices will continue higher from the exact moment of receiving the comment until the ultimate expected high. Full Story |
Silver Now Outperforming Gold
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 27 February, 2008
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| As readers may know, silver has put in a sterling performance this week and has outperformed gold into the bargain. The prediction that silver will eventually outperform gold as the precious metal bull market reaches a new zenith point is being fulfilled before our very eyes. Full Story |
GoldMoney Introduces Zurich Silver Vault
By: GoldMoney | 20 February, 2008
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| We are pleased to announce that GoldMoney has recently introduced the ability to store silver in Zurich, Switzerland using the same vault operator, VIA MAT International Ltd., that currently stores your silver in their vault near London, England. As with the silver in London, silver in Zurich is protected against theft by a policy underwritten through Lloyd's of London. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 19 February, 2008
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| As discussed last week we had a gap on the 8th which would be bullish if not filled in quickly. The gap was not filled over the subsequent week even though silver was consolidating sideways. Full Story |
Is Dishoarding Massive Quantities of Silver from India Likely?
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold/Silver Forecaster - Global Watch | 19 February, 2008
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| Silver prices are at their peak and look as though they are going to go higher, once this period of consolidation is out of the way. Silver prices have risen steadily over the years alongside gold despite there being both a surplus and government selling of stockpiles. Full Story |
A Whiskey & Gunpowder Special Report: Silver
By: Whiskey & Gunpowder | 12 February, 2008
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| Above ground inventories are dwindling, and demand continues to outstrip supply at a pace of 200 million ounces a year. Investors like Warren Buffet realize this and are taking advantage right now. But the best profits are not in holding bullion itself. Looking to add stocks of silver miners to your portfolio is the cheapest way to gain the greatest chance for skyrocket profits. Full Story |
The Surrender of the Silver Shorts
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 7 February, 2008
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| One major theme that unites a lot of silver investors is the matter of the major short sellers of silver. To be more precise, the well known fact is that the class of silver traders known as the commercials has been net short silver for literally decades. The chart below demonstrates this fact quite readily. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 1 February, 2008
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| Silver continues to advance this week into the $17 territory and onto a level somewhere we believe in the $20 to $30 range. That difference between $20 and $30 is a lot to investors who are especially leveraged to silver through stocks, options and futures but also to those who hold large quantities of silver be it in ETFs, pool accounts or in other secure deposits. Full Story |
The Double Whammy of Geopolitical Gold Games
By: Antal E. Fekete | 30 January, 2008
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| Even the most rabid silver bugs admit the possibility that the Chinese are the Big Silver Shorts. This suggests that the Big Gold Shorts are also governments. Neither are naked by any stretch of the imagination. The double whammy of gold and silver accumulation by unnamed governments is the big puzzle of the present financial crisis in the world as it holds the key to the resolution. Full Story |
More Questions About the Silver ETF
By: James Turk, Founder & Chairman of GoldMoney.com | 28 January, 2008
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| When you own shares in SLV, you do not own physical silver, you own an equity that gives you exposure to the silver price. That makes SLV a trading vehicle, like a futures contract. A futures contract is not an alternative to owning physical silver, and neither is SLV. Full Story |
Silver in Surplus?
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 28 January, 2008
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| Firstly, there is no such thing as a silver surplus. In the days when the US Government used to hold billions of ounces of silver in stockpile, we could say "Yes". But now with even the US government tapped out of silver and having to purchase on the open markets, silver is no longer drip fed or dumped onto the markets by big holders as of old. Full Story |
Silver and the General Stock Market
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 24 January, 2008
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| Again, let me iterate that the silver bull market is about money - fiat money versus real money. The fiat dollar has been rapidly inflating away in value for the last 6 years. At this rate it could approach half of its 2000 value but we think it will stop short of that. When the fiat money balloon expands full of worthless air, investors shift to hard money as in gold and silver. That’s the situation in a nutshell. Full Story |
Buying Silver in Britain
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 21 January, 2008
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| I was asked recently to give some thoughts on buying silver in Britain as an investment and now put these considerations into the public domain with some additions. But first the obvious question, why would Brits buy silver? The answer is given in the chart below which is the five year progress of silver priced in pounds sterling. Full Story |
Scunnered, or, The Great Disconnect
By: David Bond | 16 January, 2008
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| You're reading this rant because you have figured out the U$ Dollar is bunkum. Our savings and our earnings have been pitched to the wolves by the dirty Fed. A bet on the worst mining issue on the planet is probably a long sight safer than a bet on Bernanke, or Citigroup, or whoever is left standing when the paper falls out of the sky. Full Story |
A Silver Elliot Puzzle
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 15 January, 2008
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| Well, it is not a puzzle really but in the search for a silver exit strategy we occasionally come across rocks in the road which make us wonder “Will this or that happen?” Full Story |
Ranking Silver Stocks
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 8 January, 2008
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| Three months ago at the beginning of October The Silver Analyst had a look at 60 silver or silver related stocks and ranked them according to the most important feature investors want in a silver mining stock. That feature is leverage. If silver is powering ahead as we expect it to do increasingly in the months ahead then we want stocks which power ahead even more than silver. Full Story |
Doubling The Silver Bet
By: David Bond | 5 January, 2008
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| This is a great way to start 2008. There are no wrong moves in the silver market (unless you're selling) and there are no wrong moves in the Silver Valley. The only thing that can attempt to destroy this market is an attack by the full faith and credit of the United Snakes Government. And they have neither faith nor credit. Bring on the snow. It's our time. Get aboard. Full Story |
Why Silver Is About To Take Over For Gold
By: Captain Hook | 26 November, 2007
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| The US Dollar ($) is losing its global reserve currency status, and the rate at which this is occurring is accelerating in direct proportion to easy money policy of the Fed. As with the $’s reaction to the Fed’s policy decision, any further administered rate cuts will be met with an accelerating decline in the $, along with unfavorable and opposite reactions in market rates. Full Story |
The Silver Blow Off
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 18 November, 2007
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| Of course, I can’t say with an oath where exactly silver and gold are going, but I believe it is higher yet and I just want to present two items which help bolster that opinion. You may have your own favorite reasons but first I start with a simple Elliott Wave pattern. Full Story |
CBOT Margin Changes
By: CBOT | 15 November, 2007
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| The following margin requirements will become effective with the close of business on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Full Story |
Early Turkey Edition -- Northwest Mining Stock News
By: Tom Wobker | 14 November, 2007
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| Silver rocketing to $15. Gold surging to 27-year highs. Foreign capital flooding into Northwest mining and more action in the Silver Valley than we’ve seen in a generation. To top it off, a plunging dollar, a credit crisis and wild market volatility. Full Story |
How Not To Lose Money in Silver
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 8 November, 2007
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| Silver has broken out of its correction phase, a new bull leg in silver has resumed and I am addressing the subject of losing money in silver. Have I gone mad or what? No and for two simple reasons which are displayed in graphical form below. The first is the silver spike of 2004 and the other is the silver spike of 2006. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 3 November, 2007
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| Last week I mentioned how silver was underperforming gold at this present time but demonstrated that this was something to be expected. Silver lags gold at the beginning of a bull leg up but as if to compensate this seeming conundrum, silver will assuredly be outperforming gold at the end of the same bull leg! Full Story |
Silver Underperforming Gold?
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 29 October, 2007
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| As of last Friday, gold closed at $783.50 and silver at $14.17. Gold is now more than 9% above its last major high of $717.10 of the 11th May 2006 but silver was still 4% below its closing high of $14.78 of the same day in 2006. Full Story |
silberinfo Interview Zürcher Kantonal Bank
By: silberinfo | 19 October, 2007
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| Besides the fundamentals, which support an investment in precious metals as a longterm strategy, the ZKB ETFs on Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium offer an unique setup, which provides all institutional investors and high net worth individuals with an effective and innovative instrument to implement their commodity strategy. Full Story |
SLV - Silver ETF - Time Cycle & Fibonacci Retracement Analysis
By: Ruben T. Varela | 16 October, 2007
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| Taking a look at Time Cycle Analysis, I want to start my time measurement right at the launch of the Oct-03 "Impulsive Phase" - capturing just the explosive parabolic rally, and none of the preceding consolidation. The second green line is placed at the launch of the last "Impulsive Phase". The third green line is equidistant so it draws itself. Full Story |
Will Mugabe Take 51% of Platinum Mines?
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold/Silver Forecaster - Global Watch | 28 September, 2007
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| Mr. Mugabe has a long history of destroying the country’s assets. It started with him forcing Zimbabwe banks [such as Grindley’s] holding foreign investments on behalf of Zimbabweans [in nominee names], to hand them over to the government in exchange for 4% government bonds [that was in 1983]. That resulted in the termination of direct private foreign investments to Zimbabwe. Next came the white owned farmland, which confiscations led to Zimbabwe changing from the breadbasket of Africa to a country unable to grow its own food and starvation staring many of them in the face. Full Story |
GoldSeek.com Radio: Congressman Dr. Ron Paul & Chris Waltzek
By: GoldSeek.com Radio | 26 September, 2007
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| GoldSeek.com Radio: Congressman Dr. Ron Paul & Chris Waltzek. Full Story |
Exploding The Myth Of Silver Shortage
By: Antal E. Fekete | 25 September, 2007
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| On Thursday, September 20, 2007, the lease rate of silver suddenly dipped into negative territory. It fell to minus 0.1 percent per annum. I wish Ted Butler would explain the behavior of silver lease rates and the silver basis to his readers. In particular, he should explain negative lease rates, and negative basis or backwardation. It may be more helpful in promoting an understanding of the silver market than analogies about raptors and dinosaurs. Full Story |
Short Term Top Near?
By: Timothy Silvers | 25 September, 2007
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| If you haven't bought silver on the dips yet this summer, buy on the next correction in gold. That will likely be the low for the rest of the year. If you have not yet bought any silver for your portfolio and if you are planning to hold for long term investing, consider that it doesn't matter if you buy at 13.50 or 14.50. You may want to dollar cost average purchases over the next several weeks. It is more important that you establish a position while silver is still affordable than that you get in at the lowest price. I think silver will break $15 and gold $800 before year end. Full Story |
Busting More Silver ETF Myths
By: Tom Szabo | 19 September, 2007
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| Today, I'd like to tackle a new wrinkle in the SLV bashing saga, an allegation that is wilder yet easier to cut down than those which came before it. This latest "rumor" abuses people's inherent fears about the collapse of the banking system as recently demonstrated by Northern Rock customers waiting in blocks-long lines to get their money out of the liquidity-strapped, U.K.-based mortgage bank. Full Story |
Silver Outperforming the HUI
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 18 September, 2007
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| The chart above demonstrates this reversal of investment fortunes in silver and the HUI. Back in November 2004, the HUI reigned supreme and returned 412% over and above anything silver had gained by then. But since then that leverage over silver has dropped and dropped until equality (= 1.000 on the chart) was gained in 2006 until silver began to outperform the HUI. Full Story |
Summer of Fear Coming to a Close
By: Clif Droke | 18 September, 2007
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| It was a hot summer in 2007 – one of the hottest on record. But the summer heat was totally eclipsed by the record amount of fear and panic felt by the masses as the mainstream media dropped one big “fear bomb” after another on investors from July through September. Full Story |
Silver is not Money!
By: Ruben T. Varela | 17 September, 2007
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| Very few investments test an investor’s patience and conviction like Silver. It is clear that the current price of Silver includes NO MONETARY consideration. This present situation, given current “stagflationary” forces, illustrates an excellent comparative value for Silver and will not likely last much longer as the investment world ultimately receives a review course in history and economics. Full Story |
Silver Goodies Part of Silver Summit 2007
By: David Bond | 13 September, 2007
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| In addition to a world-class panel of experts and CEOs from all corners of the silver world, Silver Summit 2007 this year will feature a variety of products using silver in traditional and non-traditional applications. Full Story |
Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 7 September, 2007
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| This is a copy of the weekend update I sent to subscribers 5 days ago on Sunday 2nd September. Since then silver is up as high as 5.6% intraday, likewise PAAS is up 6.5%, SSRI is up 19% and gold is up 5.4%. Is the bull market for silver and gold now in full resumption? We think so and will invest accordingly. Full Story |
The New York Times and the 1872 Mining Law
By: David Bond, The Silver Valley Mining Journal | 30 August, 2007
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| The 1872 law was an attempt to codify and consolidate court-case law and mining district rules into a single act whose primary purpose was to protect a prospector's discovery from intruders – “finders keepers” – essentially. To discourage speculation, the law requires prospectors to prove up mineral value before a claim can be staked. Full Story |
Another Chance to Buy
By: Timothy Silvers | 20 August, 2007
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| Now is the time to buy more gold and silver if you have not yet done so. This article will be short and to the point as I am using a slow dial up internet connection in northern Pakistan (which is quite safe for travel, even for Americans, and has amazing mountains in every direction). I recommended on July 2 to buy silver and gold at those levels with a possible short term rally and possible other buying opportunity between the end of Aug and Oct. The other buying opportunity is here right now. Full Story |
The Significance of Quality in Money
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 20 August, 2007
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| The monetized silver coin - the “Libertad” ounce - will be a high-quality money; its merit will not reside in the sphere of quantity and its effects will not be primarily or principally detectable in the sphere of what is quantifiable, but rather in the sphere of quality, where we find such values as love of country, national pride, confidence, reasons to save, satisfaction and personal peace of mind, and therefore, social stability – none of which can be measured. Full Story |
Feel The ‘PAIN’ In Precious Metals Stocks!
By: Michael Kilbach | 17 August, 2007
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| August is generally a weak time of year for commodities and lower prices should be expected. In our opinion the silver and gold markets price action is acting as we would expect in these conditions. We believe the long term bull market in commodities is not over and therefore we are adding to our favorite silver investments on price weakness. Full Story |
Silver and Gold Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 16 August, 2007
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| Silver itself has fared somewhat worse than stock markets with a 16% drop. In other words, you didn’t do much worse holding silver bullion. The surprise however is gold which has performed admirably in losing only 4.4% during this Dow downdraft. It seems that although investors do not regard these events as our financial hurricane, enough are seeing a hurricane to shore up gold prices with their precautionary buying and holding. Full Story |
Silvercast Presentation: Arian Silver Corp. [TSX-V: AGQ]
By: SilverSeek.com | 3 August, 2007
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| Silvercast Presentation: Arian Silver Corp. [TSX-V: AGQ] Full Story |
The Case for Buying Silver: A History of Paper Money
By: Howard Ruff | 19 July, 2007
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| History tells us that the first paper currencies were notes payable (redeemable) in gold or silver, or, mere warehouse receipts for stored gold. Over the years, it became obvious that it was easier to simply exchange the receipts after a transaction than go to the warehouse with the receipts to get the gold and silver. The receipts became currency in common usage, and the people began to think of the receipts (currency) as money all by itself, completely detached from any stored gold. Full Story |
When Is It Time To “Worry” About Our Investments?
By: Michael Kilbach | 12 July, 2007
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| In 2006 silver and gold had a major advance followed by significant correction. In our opinion this healthy correction appears to be following a normal pattern. We are currently in late spring heading into summer, the months where the metals price seems to regularly soften. We are predictably hearing bearish commentary and news about how poorly silver and gold have been performing and why it may drastically fall. In our opinion all of these market observations are normal, healthy and bullish for the price of silver and gold. Full Story |
Buy the Silver Sidestep For Super Profits
By: Jim Otis | 11 July, 2007
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| Hey! Its great to be back among friends. I’ve been doing other things for a few months, but now seems like a great time to talk about silver again. If history rhymes for the rest of this year, the Silver Sidestep looks like a fantastic opportunity! Full Story |
Sell Offs Make You Think
By: Israel Friedman | 3 July, 2007
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| If you study silver like I do every day, the recent price drop affects you in different ways. It makes you afraid of losing money, or angry if you believe in manipulation. For some people, it makes them happy they are in a position to buy more. A sudden sell off like this last one also makes you think and re-evaluate. I wonder if the original reasons I bought silver are still okay. That is good because things can change. In fact, I think things have changed in silver. Believe it or not, I think the silver story has gotten better than before. Full Story |
Silver Summit 2007 – A Magical Mystery Tour
By: David Bond | 2 July, 2007
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| Wallace, Idaho – Silver Summit 2007. It's right on the horizon, and officially opens its doors Sept. 20 and closes on the 21st, but if you're paying attention, there's a one-day pre-function on Wednesday, the 19th and a weekend of Wallace-style revelry on the 22nd and 23rd. Full Story |
Buy Silver Now and How to Buy
By: Timothy Silvers | 2 July, 2007
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| In any event, I think this is a very low risk buying opportunity for cash purchases of silver (and gold, for that matter) for long term holding. I would not be surprised to see a small rally in the next month or two, which I may miss in the next 30 day trek in the Ladakh/Zanskar wilderness. If we rally quickly to an RSI in the high 60’s you might take consider taking partial profits or hold for bigger gains in the fourth quarter of this year. It is possible to see again a great buying opportunity in silver and gold sometime between the end of Aug and the end of October. Full Story |
Silver Coiled and Ready to Spring
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 29 June, 2007
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| A look at a seasonal chart for silver suggests June to September are weaker months for the price of silver. We also note that the previous breakouts for silver (see chart) occurred towards the end of the year. We already mentioned September for the $15 run up, but the $8.50 run up started in early October 2003. So far our analysis suggests an autumn breakout for silver. Full Story |
What’s Going On In PM’s?!
By: Michael Kilbach | 28 June, 2007
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| The past few days of trading in gold and silver are a great example of why we continually stress the importance of keeping the big picture in perspective. It is difficult not to become emotional when dramatic one day drops catch even the most seasoned investors off guard. Full Story |
Perfidy's 40th Anniversary
By: David Bond | 27 June, 2007
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| Wallace, Idaho – Delivered on our front porch yesterday morning was a baleful reminder that it was 40 years ago this week, Great Society's creator, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, signed legislation finally and forever ending this sad Republic's government's 200-year policy of (more or less) keeping its promises. Full Story |
A Look At PAAS And The Silver Stock Sector
By: Clif Droke | 4 June, 2007
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| It has been a rough past few weeks for the silver stocks, with some taking more of a hit than others. A few “name” stocks like Coeur d’Alene (CDE) have born the full brunt of the bears’ fury while other stocks have held up quite well and some have even gone on to make new highs in spite of the recent correction. We’ll take a look at some of these stocks in this report. Full Story |
Yes! It’s The ‘Real Thing!’
By: Peter Degraaf | 2 June, 2007
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| Featured is the daily bar chart for silver. The main trend is clearly defined. The blue arrows point to the upside break-out, in price and in the supporting indicators. The green arrows are the likely targets for this move. The 50DMA (solid blue line), and the 200DMA (solid red line), are in positive alignment, and both are in ‘up-mode’. ‘It’s the REAL THING!’ Full Story |
Silver: The Long Term View
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 1 June, 2007
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| Back in the depression year of 1932 silver was suffering. It had hit a low price of 24 cents per troy ounce as the forces of deflation assaulted commodities across the board. Could things get any worse as no end seemed in sight to the widespread massacre of assets across America and the world? Full Story |
Silver Stocks on the Rise
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 24 May, 2007
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| While we await silver to press onto new highs, what is the current situation with silver mining stocks? If you go to Yahoo! Finance, you will find various indices to represent various mining companies with an emphasis on gold such as the HUI and the XAU. You will of course be able to check up on your favourite silver stock but there is no silver stock index one can consult. For that reason, I formulated my own Silver Analyst Stock Composite index or the SASC index for short. Full Story |
Silver Shines At The Money Show
By: David Bond | 23 May, 2007
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| Lost Wages, Nevada – We took another swing at Nevada this past week and came up 5 aces – that being the number, times 100, of folks who turned out for a little pre-Money Show “mini Silver Summit” at the Mandalay Bay that David Morgan and I conducted with the Silver Valley Mining Association and several of its members to showcase opportunities that abound in the silver investing sector – whether you are talking physical metal or equities. Full Story |
What Next For Silver?
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 19 May, 2007
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| One could easily argue silver has been in a bear market since Friday the 12th May 2006 as prices have drifted below the $15 high of that time. On the other hand, silver has not looked back since March 2003 when it traded for less than $4.50 giving us a full-blooded bull market whose demise is not on the cards quite yet. It depends on your timeframe, but nothing in the recent price action suggests the end of the silver bull market. Full Story |
silberinfo Interview with Ted Butler
By: Team silberinfo | 18 May, 2007
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| I think silver is cheap at $13 because it is still manipulated, but it is still triple what it was at the lows. Some people say that the price increase proves silver wasn’t manipulated. I think if silver were still in the $4 to $5 level today, with everything else priced where it is, everyone would agree it was manipulated. But price alone is not what determines manipulation. What matters is how the market is structured. Full Story |
The Silver Bridge
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 18 May, 2007
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| The essence of the project to monetize the “Libertad” silver ounce and what gives it its originality, is that it builds a bridge between real money, as it existed in the world before 1914, and fictitious or “fiat” money which is in use all over the world today. Full Story |
Gold, Silver and The Dow Jones Index
By: investmentscore.com | 18 May, 2007
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| This article examines the current Silver market, Gold market and the Dow Jones Industrial average from a big picture perspective. As always our material is kept simple and easy to understand as we think simplicity is the secret to success. Full Story |
Why the Silver Price Is Set To Soar
By: Mark O'Byrne | 10 May, 2007
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| Precious metals remain the most undervalued of all the asset classes. Precious metals, and particularly silver, remain the most undervalued of all the commodities. Silver is even more undervalued than gold and is undervalued when compared to other strategic commodities such as oil and uranium. Full Story |
Churning Stock and Bullion Positions
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 29 April, 2007
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| The quick drop in silver this week seemed to have caught a few off guard to the extent that talk of manipulation pervaded the air. However, The Silver Analyst had already suggested a sell off in silver last weekend to subscribers and was not taken by surprise by current events. However, in the light of that weekend comment about a silver price correction, I was asked a question about whether to sell silver stocks. Full Story |
Just Say No to the Silver ETF
By: Stephen Kovaka | 27 April, 2007
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| The distribution of precious metals into retail hands seems to be happening in spite of the CRIMEX, SLV and similar pseudo-metallic schemes, but they are certainly slowing it down. Unfortunately for America, too many of those hands reside on the other side of the world. Americans have the freedom to own precious metals and thereby undo monetary centralization; they just don't yet have the understanding or the will to do so. As in so many other things, the power to break our chains lies unused in our own hands. Full Story |
CBOT Margin Changes
By: CBOT | 23 April, 2007
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| The following margin changes will become effective with the close of business on Monday, April 24, 2007 Full Story |
Zurich Redux, & A Gold Price Forecast
By: David Bond | 22 April, 2007
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| Zurich – Martin Murenbeeld, who hangs his hat in Victoria, B.C. and pens prognostications for Dundee, is a bit like a Swiss train. If by one's watch the Swiss train is a bit late, then you had better take your Patek Philippe into the jeweler for a tune-up, because Swiss trains are never late and they are never early. Neither is Dr. Murenbeeld. Full Story |
Bring on the Empty ETFs?
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 20 April, 2007
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| This week has been a busy week for silver as announcements of two silver ETFs were made to the media. When I read the words "silver" and "ETF" I was part hoping it was finally the silver stocks ETF I mentioned in the latest issue of my newsletter. However, it was not to be as the third silver ETF was announced by the Zurich Cantonal Bank along with their platinum and palladium ETFs. It will start trading on the 10th May. Full Story |
Weekly Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 15 April, 2007
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| Silver continues to advance but as yet no new highs have been achieved. The RSI for silver is now beginning to overheat as it hits a value of 64.88 and should advance into overbought territory in the days and weeks ahead subject to minor corrections slowing it down. To me there does not seem enough strength in this current move to reach the old high of last February before it is pulled down. Full Story |
The Empire is Becoming a Little Frayed Around the Edges
By: Larry LaBorde | 13 April, 2007
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| The United States dollar index has dropped below 82 today. We would do well to remember that the index is just a measure of the USD strength in relation to other currencies. It is sort of like measuring the USD with a rubber yardstick. While all currencies are racing to zero the USD just got a little ahead of the others. Check out www.coinflation.com and scroll down until you get to the current melt value of US coins. Notice a nickel is now worth over 9 cents. It seems that the USD has devalued faster than the US mint can cheapen its coins. Full Story |
Can We Trust the Silver ETF?
By: John Rubino & James Turk | 9 April, 2007
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| The introduction of precious metal ETFs is one of the reasons that gold and silver have been on a tear lately. But like any other financial instrument, a bullion ETF requires a degree of trust. Most investors (including me) buy these funds on the assumption that their accounting is honest and that the metal they say they have really is sitting in their vault. Hardly anyone actually goes through an ETF's prospectus or 10-K line-by-line to see if this is an iron-clad guarantee. Full Story |
Leaving Las Vegas
By: David Bond | 6 April, 2007
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| Wallace, Idaho – Las Vegas is one dreadful dump. Used to be you could go to Nevada for a good time with not a lot of money. No more. As guests of the Luxor (that big black pyramid-shaped thingie) we were treated to $3 coffee, $4 orange juice, $5 beer and $7 cigarettes, a television remote control that wasn't there, and an Internet connexion that didn't work. We were delighted that the elevators did not charge boarding fees. Full Story |
Exiting the 1980 Silver Top
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 25 March, 2007
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| A few weeks back I introduced readers to the Silver Leverage Indicator or SLI, a tool which enables silver (and gold) investors to time multi-year market tops in metal bull markets. The concept was based on an observed fact over forty years of back testing against 43 years of silver prices. That fact was that when silver began to outperform gold by a factor of 1.80 or more, the bull market in question was about to take a rest – sometimes for a long time. Full Story |
Good On Ya, Robert Hopper
By: David Bond | 24 March, 2007
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| Robert Hopper, president of the New Bunker Hill Mining Co. since 1992 “when I was still a child,” and for more years than he would care to remember our closest friend and confidant, may finally be seeing light at the end of the tunnel that isn't the bright beam of an oncoming runaway freight. Tonight, as we type this, it is still difficult to comprehend: the mighty Bunker Hill, the industrial anchor of the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Silver Valley and of this tourism-obsessed burgh in which we dwell, may finally rise again to her full glory and splendour. Full Story |
When Do I Sell My Silver?
By: investmentscore.com | 23 March, 2007
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| When do I sell my silver and gold? Are there ways of determining when to sell ones investment? In our opinion the two most important questions when investing are, "when do I buy?" and "when do I sell?" Analysis of the economy, price movements, interest rates, debt levels, unemployment, supply and demand, public sentiment etc. are all intended to help us determine when to buy and when to sell an investment. In this article we briefly discuss a typical method for determining when to sell an investment and then we explain our way of answering this question. Full Story |
2007 Virtual Silver Investment Conference - March 21
By: SilverSeek.com | 21 March, 2007
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| Webcasts All Times Eastern 10:00 AM David Morgan - Silver Investor 10:30 AM Endeavour Silver 11:00 AM Dia Bras 11:30 AM Jason Hommel - Silver Stock Report 12:00 PM Silvermex Resources 12:30 PM SilverCrest Mines 13:00 PM Julian Phillips - Silver Forecaster Full Story |
Liberty Dollar Group Seeks Permanent Injunction Against US Government
By: Liberty Dollar | 20 March, 2007
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| Liberty Dollar filed suit against the U.S. Mint on Tuesday, March 20 in U.S. District Court in Evansville, Indiana. The organization -- which promotes and distributes the new gold and silver currency -- asked the court to declare that the use of the Liberty Dollar is not a "federal crime," as claimed by the U.S. Mint. And the organization further asked the court to enter a permanent injunction against the U.S. Mint requiring it to remove any reference that the use of Liberty Dollars is a federal crime from its website. Full Story |
The Speed of Silver
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 15 March, 2007
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| In the search for knowledge that helps us time exit and entry points for the silver market, I was reminded of that old science fiction series Star Trek. Now you may ask what Star Trek has got to do with silver? Well, let me define it as the "Spock-McCoy" syndrome of silver investing Full Story |
Welcome Back Hecla
By: David Bond | 15 March, 2007
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| Jerome Bunde reports to us that for the first time in 25 years, miners are investing a portion of their paychecks in the mining stocks here. We've got churn again, and that's good for all concerned. Whether silver is $9 or $90 this time next year, won't matter. This rusty old mining camp has shed the surly bonds of earth, is set to soar and shine. With all those 1,000,000,000s of ounces, would you expect any less? Full Story |
An Objective Look at Silver
By: Jack Chan | 13 March, 2007
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| This is my objective look at silver. Technical analysis is nothing more than an educated guess. But being independent and thinking outside of the box allows me to see things other analysts may not see, and as a result, may not agree. For me and my subscribers, I would like to see this silver/gold ratio continuing up and never drops again, so that we can park our money in silver and become filthy rich. But the markets are seldom that accommodating, and the best offense is a good defense. So, while many are cheerleading the current breakout in silver with $20 being a “gimme”, I exercise caution and pay attention only to price action. Full Story |
Silver versus Gold
By: Steven Saville, Speculative Investor | 13 March, 2007
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| With the stock market having most likely commenced an intermediate-term correction it's a good time for us to go over some old ground; specifically, we are going to re-visit the relationship between the silver/gold ratio and the broad stock market that we've discussed a number of times over the past several years. Full Story |
CBOT Margin Changes
By: CBOT | 9 March, 2007
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| The following margin changes will become effective with the close of business on Monday, March 12, 2007 Full Story |
PDAC & The CN Tower's Revenge
By: David Bond | 7 March, 2007
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| It is becoming painfully obvious that the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's annual bash in this otherwise somnambulant capital of Ontario is responsible for two phenomena: the most miserable weather on the planet, and that gigantic retching sound one hears every March 3 or so when the metals regurgitate their recent gains like so many bulimic bullion bars. Full Story |
Weekly Silver Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 4 March, 2007
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| I check what had happened when silver dropped below its 50 day MA over the last year or so and it was 3 to 1 in favour of the price continuing onto the 200 day MA. During the last correction after the $8.47 peak, a break below the 50 day MA always continued onto the 200 day MA. Full Story |
Silver Topping Again
By: Timothy Silvers | 27 February, 2007
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| Silver looks like it may have topped yesterday. This article will be heavy on graphs and shorter on commentary as I am very pressed for time. If you bought around January 10, when I posted my last buy recommendation, you have gained over $2/ounce since then. I took profits today on my trading position because it looks like we’ve topped out. Silver’s RSI is over 70 again which is a good signal that we are close to a short term high. Full Story |
Improving Your Silver Exit Strategies
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 21 February, 2007
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| As we anticipate the next and final leg of phase I of the precious metals bull market, investors need to be ready with their exit strategies if they wish to unload all or part of their assets in a profitable manner. Full Story |
Production of Large Silver Mines Through 2030
By: Bryant Blake | 21 February, 2007
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| I have compiled a data table for the world’s 20 largest undeveloped silver mines. The list of these mines was obtained from a corporate presentation by Mines Management http://gold.seekingalpha.com/article/23676. The Mines Management list gave the top 20 mines but did not supply relevant data such as reserves, resources, annual production, ore grade, or estimated start up dates. Full Story |
Orlando Musings
By: David Bond | 19 February, 2007
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| As readers of this rant know, we recently participated in a Money Show event in Orlando, Florida, at the Gaylord Palms, wherein we represented Silver investment opportunities to those who still might give a rusty one about the future of their paper money. The demographics of this Money Show crowd, some 11,000-strong, were a tad different than one encounters at an IIC conference in New Yawk or San Francisco, albeit their goals to preserve their personal wealth in the face of a runaway Fed and a lunatic President were much the same as you'd find at a resource gathering. Full Story |
Gold, Google and Market Tops
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 14 February, 2007
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| It has been a while since we last published how our gold and silver sentiment indicator has been getting on. To remind readers, for the past year now I have been collecting the number of Google hits on key phrases relevant to the gold bull market. Care has been taken that one does not end up with hits related to the latest fashions in gold jewelry or what the latest theories are on some gold artifacts found in archaeological digs. We are only interested in the gold bull market and I hope the hits collected over that time reflect that. Full Story |
Silver Demand
By: Bryant Blake | 8 February, 2007
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| In summary, silver demand is in a long term growth mode. Demand could even be said to be parabolic (a slight parabola) since population growth is parabolic and long term silver demand has increased at a greater rate than population. Fabrication demand has flattened since 2000 largely due to reduced photographic demand, but this is a misleading set of values since most of photographic silver use is recycled. Full Story |
A New Way to Time Market Tops in Gold & Silver
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 7 February, 2007
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| There is one question above all others that is on the minds of gold and silver investors. It can be expressed in two ways. The first is "At what price will the gold and silver bull market end?" The second is similar "At what date will the gold and silver bull market end?" The chief end of both questions is the same, getting out with maximum profits for the holder of gold and silver be it in bullion, ETF or mining stock form. Full Story |
Certificate Programs – An Exception to the Rule
By: Danielle Dwyer-Psarras | 1 February, 2007
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| Over the years, the terms “unallocated metal,” “pool accounts” and “certificate programs” have attracted some controversy. I often receive questions from our clients and readers regarding the Perth Mint Certificate Program (PMCP) and whether the related risks of traditional certificate programs apply. I am here to set the record straight. The answer to this question is: The Perth Mint Certificate Program is an exception to the rule. Full Story |
PEEDAC Will Be On Steroids
By: David Bond | 29 January, 2007
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| Those 10,000-plus of us who attended the Cambridge House Resource and Investment get-together in Vancouver last weekend got a taste of what the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual confab in Toronto in March will be like: Nuts. Full Story |
The International Price of Silver
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 28 January, 2007
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| What is the real price of an ounce of silver and just how widespread should a silver bull market be? We have watched over the last few years as the price of silver in US dollars has marched upwards from the lows of $4 to the recent highs of $15. However, the good luck of silver has been mainly laid at the door of the bad luck of US dollar. Full Story |
Endeavour Silver Corp. Lists on the American Stock Exchange
By: SilverSeek.com | 26 January, 2007
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| January 26, 2007 - Vancouver, Canada - Endeavour Silver Corp. (EDR: TSX and EJD: DBFrankfurt) announces that its common shares have been approved for listing on the American Stock Exchange ("AMEX") effective at the opening of trading on January 29, 2007. The AMEX listing approval is contingent on the Company being in compliance with all applicable listing requirements on the date that it begins trading and may be rescinded if the Company is not in compliance with such standards. The Company will trade on AMEX under the symbol "EXK", and continues to trade on the TSX under the symbol "EDR" and the Deutsch Bourse Frankfurt under the symbol "EJD". Full Story |
Leveraging Silver with Silver Stocks
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 20 January, 2007
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| I talked a couple of weeks back about how silver could be used to leverage the price of gold but what about silver mining stocks leveraging the price of silver? In that previous article a four-year rolling leverage of silver over gold was calculated to show how silver either out-performed or under-performed gold as bull markets waxed and waned. Applying the same principles, we have the following 4-year leverages for the mining companies that make up The Silver Analyst Stock Composite Index. Full Story |
A new service for silver savers in Mexico
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 19 January, 2007
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| Banco Azteca, which has about 1,000 branches throughout Mexico, is about to launch a new service for those who like to save silver. It is the first bank in Mexico to offer this service; other banks are expected to follow suit, sooner or later. Full Story |
Silver Stocks Basket and Silver Ratio
By: SilverStrategies.com | 17 January, 2007
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| Let's take a look at XAU:Silver ratio before going to individual Silver industry stocks. And It's not a secret that stocks usually are more reactive then the bullion... Full Story |
Silver Analysis Update
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 14 January, 2007
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| The silver market continues to move in a state of flux as the metal struggles to free itself from its current period of price correction. However, one must not take this to be a sign of overall weakness in the silver bull market but rather a normal adjustment to the recent $15 highs that caused silver to race too far ahead of its normative indicators. In terms of Elliott Wave analysis, the most probable picture to me is laid out below. Full Story |
Silver Close to a Bottom
By: Timothy Silvers | 11 January, 2007
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| I think silver is at or near a low risk buy point right now. On December 4, I called for a top in silver and I expected to be buying again at a price in the low to mid $12 range. Silver has corrected since then by almost $2 and is hovering just above its 200 day moving average (DMA) of 12.21. I bought some silver in the drop last Friday and will likely complete my purchases this week or next. I am waiting to see if we get a sell off this Thursday or Friday that will take it below the 200 DMA. The rest of this article focuses on the logic and analysis I am using to determine when to buy. Full Story |
New Year Edition -- Northwest Mining Stock News
By: Tom Wobker | 11 January, 2007
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| Every New Year brings with it boundless possibilities, and this one’s no exception. Many miners up here are especially pleased about one specific possibility offered by this particular New Year: the prospect that over the next twelve months money from outside the region will continue flowing into area mining ventures – and perhaps even increase. Full Story |
Real Money for Mexico
By: Eric Englund | 9 January, 2007
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| Conversely, if Salinas’ silver remonetization plan is adopted, this will be akin to building a bridge from economic darkness (wrought by modern central banking), to a place where saving, capital formation, and entrepreneurship will allow prosperity to emerge from the ashes of fiat money. Salinas is keenly aware that prosperity’s silver lining is peace itself. Hence, the Norwegian Nobel Committee should take great interest in Hugo Salinas Price’s body of work, and personal sacrifice, as there is no greater advocate for peace on this planet. Full Story |
Leveraging Gold with Silver
By: Roland Watson, The Silver Analyst | 6 January, 2007
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| If you have been a regular reader of the various precious metal websites, you will know that gold is the metal that dominates the discussion. This should not surprise us. Despite that fact that less than 2,500 tonnes of gold are mined out of the ground each year as opposed to the 20,000 tonnes of silver, it is market cashflow that matters and a look at the recent statistics of the international London bullion market shows that in November 2006, $12.1 billion worth of gold was cleared through that city as opposed to $1.41 billion worth of silver[1]. Clearly, when it comes to business transactions as well as Internet chat, it is gold that talks louder than silver. Full Story |
Silver – Ready to Roll
By: Richard J. Greene | 31 December, 2006
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| This year silver rose over 40% yet is only starting to draw attention from the investment crowd. A lot of effort is being made to keep the wheels from falling off the increasingly sickly world fiat currencies. These efforts include inconceivably inaccurate government statistics as well as frequent smack-downs in gold and silver, the long-term proven superior forms of money. Recent action suggests the marketplace is learning quite well how to deal with these smack-downs……wait for them patiently and then buy as much physical gold and silver as possible. Full Story |
Time To Tame The U.S. Mint
By: David Bond | 28 December, 2006
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| It's really quite past time to tame the United States Mint. First the SOBs went for Bernard Von Nothaus's jugular by unilaterally declaring the silver Liberty dollars illegal for tender. And now, they propose to tell us exactly what we can and cannot do with our pennies and nickels. Full Story |
So What’s The Catch? – Updated By Request
By: Michael Kilbach | 27 December, 2006
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| With all the difference of opinions from so called “experts” on how to invest your capital, how does an investor cut through the “noise” to get a reasonable return on their investment? Is investing really that complicated? Can the average person make money in the markets? In our opinion it can be much easier than most people think. Full Story |
Could Silver Cost More Than Gold?
By: Jim Otis | 21 December, 2006
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| Just like always, silver is universally considered to be less valuable than gold. There is no need for people to ask about how much of either is available for investment or use, because silver has always had plentiful supply while gold was scarce. Everyone knows that means silver must be much less expensive than gold, so sure enough, silver is much less expensive. Full Story |
Why Silver Will Outperform Gold 400% and How You Can Join the Party
By: Franklin Sanders | 12 December, 2006
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| Over the course of the present bull market in silver and gold, probably another 10 years, silver should rise about four times as fast as gold. That forecast arises from silver’s historic performance, especially during the 20th century, as well as its present fundamentals. The best way to profit from that trend is to swap back and forth from silver to gold with the rise and fall in the gold/silver ratio. That strategy will convert a sterile investment into one that pays dividends, and possibly double the ounces you own over the life of the bull market. Full Story |
Silver Topping Again?
By: Timothy Silvers | 5 December, 2006
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| For a number of reasons, I have started taking profits on this latest silver rally and I think it could top out soon, and then correct to give us another buying opportunity. First, silver typically sees a correction of some kind every December. Not coincidentally, the RSI indicator is now above 70 (see chart below). When it exceeds this level, a correction tends to follow within 1 to 3 weeks. I expect silver will drop $1.50 to $2.00 this time and will find support around an RSI of 50. This will be a great opportunity to buy more in anticipation of a rally that will exceed the $15 highs of this past spring. Full Story |
Major U.S. $ crisis looming
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold/Silver Forecaster – Global Watch | 4 December, 2006
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| We are approaching rapidly a series of currency crises of a greater magnitude than ever seen before in history. Whilst the U.S.$ will be the prime recipient of these, many currencies trying to protect their international competitiveness or their own stability will be dragged into the crisis that will affect to a greater or lesser extent the bulk of currencies across the world. Full Story |
Everyone knows how to make money in Silver
By: Jim Otis | 1 December, 2006
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| No need to look at charts of silver prices. A simple glance at the calendar will tell you that it is winter already, so silver must be skyrocketing. Many writers on several websites have pointed out that buying silver in the summer and selling it in the winter is a sure and easy way to make lots of profits. If you can't grow up to be the Federal Reserve and print your own fiat, buying silver in the summer and selling in the winter just might be the next best way to dramatically increase the number of FRNs in your bank account. After all, if everyone knows that strategy, and they talk about it on the Internet where only truth is permitted, then it must be trustworthy and dependable. Right? Full Story |
Europe By Storm
By: David Bond | 30 November, 2006
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| The Rhine is a crystalline shimmer of turquoise and azure, flowing sedately from Lake Constance, its population of giant German browns casting dark shadows on the riverbed, feeding lazily off a bottom-hatch. On the opposite bank, high above the clock towers and medieval homes of this 1,000-year-old village glowers the imposing castle at the end of a winding one-lane stone road begging for a Porsche to attack it. The trees in this northern Switzerland hamlet are just turning their autumn colours. There’s not a breath of wind. Full Story |
Germany Goes Bankrupt Too!
By: Martin W. Hennecke | 28 November, 2006
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| What a large number of even the more educated US Dollar bear-and US financial crisis expectation camp however do NOT seem to be aware of is the global nature of the problem. It is completely wrong to assume, for example, that the Euro or the British Pound are inherently ‘hard’ and healthy currencies that would provide protection from a plunging US Dollar. It is not known by most, that in fact the majority of the Western ‘developed’ world and not just the United States is facing national bankruptcy shortly ahead, and that this has been officially predicted by the world’s leading rating agency, Standard & Poor’s. Full Story |
Parisian Musings On Silver
By: David Bond | 13 November, 2006
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| Gare St. Lazare, Paris – We are winding down two weeks of the most intensive campaign on behalf of silver Europe has ever seen. This juggernaut began two weeks ago in Munich, veered into northern Switzerland, hooked left into London, and finally has come back across the Channel to rest in Paris with today’s conclusion of the 2nd Paris Silver Summit. Full Story |
The silberinfo-Index (SIX) is beating the HUI
By: Team silberinfo | 12 November, 2006
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| The silver mines that are valued by us as especially sound and prospective are comprised within the silberinfo index (SIX) which index has reached a new high of 108 points last Friday. After the heavy correction until the beginning of October to 86 points, the SIX began a new upward trend on October 5 that has reached a new high at 108 points last Friday and therefore has risen approx. 26%. Full Story |
The S.M.A.R.T. Silver Equation (reloaded)
By: Rock Gale | 3 November, 2006
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| A bit more than two years ago - September 2004 it was - I studied the trajectory of the Silver Rocket in an article called "The SMART Silver Equation". Many readers liked the idea, and made me promise to update the regression analysis at a later date. I never promised to write the sequel before a set date, or update it every year, but I have felt that it was about time to undertake the process again, even though my original work had been partially lost due to a break-in at my residence. Full Story |
The destruction of the Mexican Peso 1910 - 2006
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 3 November, 2006
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| From 1572 (perhaps even earlier) and up to 1914, the silver content of the Mexican Peso (which during the Spanish Colonial era was known as the “Piece of Eight Reales”) was held to a remarkably stable standard: 24.44 grams of pure silver. (At some times during the early Colonial period it was minted with a slightly higher content; during one period of twenty years, with a very slightly lower silver content.) Full Story |
Investment Opportunities for Accredited Investors in the Precious Metals Markets
By: GoldSeek.com | 27 October, 2006
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| If you are an accredited investor, there are additional investment opportunities available to you. Full Story |
Great Pumpkin Edition -- Northwest Mining Stock News
By: Tom Wobker | 27 October, 2006
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| While we wait to see where these peculiar life forms will lead the Homeland in the future, the bull market in mining stocks sits quietly, ensnared by soft prices and lackadaisical trading. We continue to feel about the market slowdown as we have since it started: this bull is not dead; it’s only resting. We expect to see it up and galloping again before too long. But exactly when, is the question. After elections? After year-end tax loss selling? Full Story |
A brief explanation of the project to monetize the one ounce silver 'Libertad' coin
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 27 October, 2006
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| As we have shown, the project for the monetization of the “Libertad” silver ounce includes nothing new in principle and it is actually only an adaptation to modern conditions of principles which have always operated with regard to coinage: the re-valuation of the silver in the coin and the stability of the nominal, “quoted” value, by means of a quote which cannot be reduced, which thus gives the coin a virtual “engraved” value, instead of the physically engraved or printed value which is displayed by our present coins and bills. Full Story |
Elliott Wave on Silver
By: Dan Stinson | 25 October, 2006
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| Silver appears to be in a triangle pattern currently in wave (E) down. We should see minor downside for Silver before a reversal and subsequent breakout to the upside. The downside could complete as wave (C) down or we could see further sideways action in wave (E) into the apex of the triangle. Full Story |
Silver Production
By: Bryant Blake | 23 October, 2006
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| After reading how Mr. Frank Veneroso is bearish on silver and how he believes supply is going to expand, I decided to check silver production in 2006 versus the previous two years. The Silver Institute compiles a list of the 20 top silver producers each year. I have been able to find the 1st 6 month or 9 month production results of 11 of these companies. These results were obtained from the company’s web sites, quarterly financial statements or from response to my emails. Full Story |
Going Mainstream With Silver
By: David Bond | 20 October, 2006
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| We began our love affair with silver as money nearly a half-century ago, and turned rather grumpy when a banker friend admonished us, back in 1980, that, “It’s not money. It’s just another commodity.” He was half-right. In addition to being money, silver is indeed a commodity. But not “just another” commodity. It is quite likely the most remarkable and essential commodity of the 21st Century. And we have the sweetest smelling socks to prove it. Full Story |
CBOT Margin Changes
By: CBOT | 18 October, 2006
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| The following margin changes will become effective with the close of business on Thursday, October 19, 2006 Full Story |
The Casey Files: Psst… Want to Make a Fortune in Resource Stocks?
By: Doug Casey & David Galland | 3 October, 2006
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| Next to my desk, I keep a cardboard box. Into that box I toss all of the many stock promotions I receive in the mail. You know… those ubiquitous faux newsletters and research reports that breathlessly proclaim that this or that precious metals or energy stock is perched on the verge of making investors rich. Before dropping each new promotion piece into the box, I note the date I received it. I do so out of a sort of morbid curiosity as to whether anyone would possibly buy a stock based on receiving a blind solicitation in the mail. Full Story |
The Mexican Peso and the Roman Denarius
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 2 October, 2006
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| The Roman emperors did not have enough cash to pay for the expenses of the Empire. They had to pay the bureaucracy, they had to pay for “bread and circuses” for the rowdy Roman population and importantly, they had to pay the armies that kept the barbarian invaders at bay. Taxes brought in insufficient revenue and there was only one thing they could do – reduce the silver content of the coinage. During the late Roman Empire bronze coins were ingeniously silver-plated to resemble silver coins; a little rubbing revealed the bronze. Full Story |
Is Anybody Home?
By: David Bond | 30 September, 2006
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| Barclay’s iShares told the Thought Police, in the form of a Securities and Exchange Commission S-1 filing, that it’s going to “Texas hedge” the silver ETF with the issuance of another 16,822,727 shares in its silver trust, representing, at 10 ounces per, another 168 million ounces of silver. Full Story |
Is silver ETF preparing to clean out Comex or just divert demand?
By: Chris Powell | 30 September, 2006
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| So maybe over the next few months we'll find out for sure whether the ETF holds real silver or only paper claims on silver and whether the demand for silver expressed through the ETF will be applied to actual metal and mining or just diverted more into the service of the great scheme to suppress the price of commodities and the labor that produces them, to financialize the world, and keep the dollar-money power in charge of things. Full Story |
iShares Silver Trust ETF Files S-1: Set to More than Double in Size!
By: SilverSeek.com | 29 September, 2006
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| On September 27, 2006 the iShares Silver Trust [AMEX: SLV] filed a S-1 to register 15,222,727 shares at a proposed maximum offering price of $110.00 per share for a maximum net offering proceeds of $1,674,449,970. As of 09/28/2006, iShares Silver Trust showed 104,323,655 ounces of silver in the trust or 3,244.8 tonnes. This represented 10,450,000 shares. Thus the registration of the S-1 this week will effectively increase the amount of shares and silver by just under 150%. Full Story |
Of Schmetterlings and Summits
By: David Bond | 28 September, 2006
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| Thus did the Silver Summit 2006 butterfly, or more properly Schmetterling, flap its four-year-old wings again last week. When the financial typhoon strikes the currency and bond markets, and updrafts the commodity and metal markets, what role will we have played? Has Silver Summit become for the Silver Revolution what Gold Rush 21 was for GATA? Full Story |
Metals Bull Alive: Sticking With GLD & SLV
By: Todd Stein & Steven McIntyre | 27 September, 2006
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| While the Dow may soon briefly take out its old 11,700+ highs, the real story of late in our opinion is the recent pummeling of all commodity markets. Though we follow oil, natural gas, copper, and other commodities with great interest, our continued belief is that the best risk/reward set up in the major commodities comes in the form of the precious metals – namely gold and silver. You see, after peaking at $720 an ounce on the yellow metal and $15 an ounce for the poor man’s gold, the two metals have come under a great deal of selling pressure. We think this correction is due to a number of factors. Full Story |
Get Ready to Buy Silver
By: Timothy Silvers | 18 September, 2006
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| Two weeks ago, I posted an article describing why I thought that silver would suffer a correction before continuing its advance to new highs. Several days later, silver failed to push through the top of its upward trending channel near $13 and sold of abruptly, taking out the $12 support at the bottom of its trend channel. Now silver is at $10.72, right where I expected it would be after the correction, near its 200 day moving average (MA) and with an RSI level in the low 30’s. In that article, I said that this would probably be an excellent time put your remaining cash into silver. So, do we jump back into silver now, or are further declines likely in the near future? Full Story |
Silver Summit Announces Sponsors, Speakers and Exhibitors
By: Silver Summit 2006 | 15 September, 2006
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| Organizers of Silver Summit 2006 are pleased to announce that 40 of the world’s premiere silver mining and exploration companies will participate in this year’s Summit, scheduled for Sept. 21-22 at the Coeur d’Alene Inn in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Sept. 23-24 in Wallace, Idaho. Full Story |
Ionic Silver – The Powerful Defense Against Viruses And Other Microbes
By: Herbert Slavin, M.D. | 12 September, 2006
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| As the nation watches and waits to see if HN51, commonly called bird flu or avian flu, will become a threat to humans, and firms are scrambling to hopefully develop a cure before there’s even anything to target or conduct tests with, it appears that a new form of ionic silver may already be providing us with a remarkably effective treatment for not only a bird flu pandemic that may or may not occur but also an enormous range of infectious diseases that are a very real part of our world today. Full Story |
Silver Wheaton-Goldcorp’s In-house Bank
By: Jim Damberger, Penticton, B.C. | 5 September, 2006
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| SLW pays a lump sum for future production plus an on-going fixed amount per ounce. The supplier assumes all political and production risk. The supplier then has money to do with as required (often expand its own production). Since SLW stock commands a premium as a silver producer, it can sell its stock with an inferred future PE of 3-4 times that of base metal company and pays only the normal PE price (plus a premium) to the supplier. Sounds just like a bank. Buy money for 3% and loan it out at 7% with collateral. AND IT GETS BETTER. Full Story |
Short Term Top in Silver?
By: Timothy Silvers | 5 September, 2006
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| Many analysts I have read recently think that silver is starting its new bull run to take out May’s highs. I think we will see that come to pass, but not before we suffer a correction. There are a few reasons why I think this will happen. First, silver typically sees a correction between the end of August and the end of October. Second, the RSI indicator is again approaching 70 (see chart below). Full Story |
Ed Steer and Ted Butler: Gold, silver, GATA, and the COT
By: Ed Steer and Ted Butler | 5 September, 2006
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| One of the most pleasant aspects of being involved with exposing the manipulation of the price of gold and silver is the quality of the people who I have met on this journey. Of course this would include the entire GATA community, most of whom I have had the pleasure of meeting many times over the last six years. Full Story |
Silver stocks lead the way
By: Clif Droke | 4 September, 2006
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| When Wall Street returns from Labor Day vacation and the end of the historically sluggish "summer doldrums" period of August, it will find more than a few worthwhile trading opportunities from both a momentum and a relative strength standpoint. Full Story |
Revolution
By: David Bond | 28 August, 2006
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| Wallace, Idaho – The following is a true story. It all started happening day after tomorrow: Chaos continued to confound world energy and metal markets today on news that Venezuela would accept only silver for American oil payments at a rate of 5 ounces of .999-fine silver per barrel of oil. Full Story |
Silver Rules, Here's Why
By: Bill Hamilton | 24 August, 2006
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| Why I think silver is a good investment right now. I have long been a silver bull, and it just so happens I have about doubled my money in about two years. In many instances doubling money in a matter of two years would be a sign that Silver is overpriced and that it is a good time to get out, this article is to inform you. Full Story |
How High Could Silver Go?
By: Chris Weber | 23 August, 2006
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| This is written with some trepidation. Silver is much more volatile than gold, and forecasting it is fraught with peril. Nonetheless, I think it is important to have some goal or target in mind when you take a position in an investment. Over the past few years I have taken a major position in silver, so I want to take this opportunity to think my way through where I think it could go, and how long it could take to get there. Full Story |
What’s Next for Silver?
By: Doug Casey | 21 August, 2006
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| A lot has happened since publishing “Silver on Sale,” in the June 2004 edition of our International Speculator. As predicted in that article, the price of silver has risen strongly, more doubling from $6.09 to the current $12.18, with a peak of as high as $15 in May. The performance of silver has outshone even gold: silver was up almost 31% in 2005, compared to gold’s gain of almost 18%. Now some investors are asking: “Was that it?” And if we aren’t near the top for silver, then how high will it go? Full Story |
CBOT & NYMEX Margin Changes
By: CBOT & NYMEX | 18 August, 2006
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| CBOT & NYMEX Margin Changes Full Story |
Big Fish Ate A Little Fish
By: David Bond | 18 August, 2006
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| With all the feeding frenzy going on amongst the mining majors, to wit: Inco, Falconbridge, Barrick, Xstrata, Cominco, we were reminded of an earlier such time, at the peak of the silver boom in 1980 when silver miners and oil companies went at it with similar frenzy. Full Story |
Silver to the People!
By: Jim Otis | 17 August, 2006
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| Wow! Is it really almost time for another Silver Summit? How time flies when we are in a precious metals bull market! I can't get there this year, but I hope to in 2007. The Silver Summit needs an optimist to offset the cloud of gloom and doom that hangs heavy over Mogambo's head! Full Story |
UC Resources Ltd. Follow-Up # 3
By: Peter Zihlmann | 10 August, 2006
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| UC Resources Ltd. is an emerging producer of Gold and Silver in Mexico. The Company's goal is to combine both cash flow from production along with a significant exploration upside from its mining assets. Full Story |
Peregrinations On Silver, Falcons And The National I.D.
By: David Bond | 6 August, 2006
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| Eric LeMaire, our astute Parisian friend, whose politics peregrinate between libertarianism and anarchy, emailed the other day wondering why on Planet Earth Idaho’s contribution to the 50-state (“collect ’em all”) issue of ersatz quarter-fednote coins would be an offering of the likeness of a peregrine falcon on the reverse side. Each state, one recalls, gets to present its best side on the backside of these special-issue slugs stamped out by the government mint. Full Story |
The Mystery of the Gold Silver Ratio
By: Roland Watson, New Era Investor | 3 August, 2006
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| Likewise, although silver is about six to eight times more abundant than gold; the current perceived utility for silver sets it a price 56 times cheaper than gold. However, when fear of systemic failure in the global markets is heightening, items such as silver gain a new utility and use as a safe haven asset and new demand appears. When that happens, we expect the gold-silver ratio to approach 15 again. Just as it did when a fiat money collapse was last envisaged back in the inflationary era of the 1970s. Full Story |
Silver Here & Everywhere
By: David Bond, The Silver Valley Mining Journal | 25 July, 2006
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| Because 95 percent of new silver produced every year is consumed by industry (including photo, coins, cell phones, computers, reflective glass, etc.) only 5 percent of all that new silver, or about $378 million worth, is available to satisfy investor demand. Full Story |
Gold Versus Silver and the US$
By: Steve Saville, The Speculative Investor | 25 July, 2006
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| Not surprisingly and not coincidentally, the sharp downturn in silver/gold over the past three months has occurred alongside a sharp reduction in the general enthusiasm for equities. At this stage, however, the declines in both the US stock market (as represented by the NYA) and the silver/gold ratio don't appear to be much worse than the declines that occurred during the first half of 2004. In particular, a case could be made that both silver/gold and the NYA are still in the upward trends that began during 2002-2003. Full Story |
Silver Stars To Headline Silver Summit 2006
By: David Bond | 19 July, 2006
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| A complete agenda, including events occurring in Wallace, Idaho the weekend following the formal Silver Summit, and registration information, may be found at www.thesilversummit.com. Official sponsors of The Silver Summit include Peter Spina of GoldSeek.com and SilverSeek.com, and the Silver Valley Mining Association. Full Story |
Dog Days Edition -- Northwest Mining Stock News
By: Tom Wobker | 11 July, 2006
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| A sharp correction coupled with lackadaisical summer trading has brought a breather for the runaway bull market in metals. Though not pleasant, the price pounding was not unexpected... and probably not unhealthy either, as it beat some of the speculative froth out of the market. While we don’t believe the metals bull has finished his stampede at this point, we also don’t expect another gallop to begin before the tamaracks turn yellow this autumn. Full Story |
Short-term considerations for the precious metal stocks
By: Clif Droke | 5 July, 2006
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| Short-term internal momentum for the silver stocks is still rising, a fact that contributed to the across-the-board rally in the silver stocks last week. Internal momentum as measured by the SS HILMO indicators (silver stock hi-lo momentum), which measure the rate of change in the net new highs among the actively traded silvers, is improving. The SS HILMO indicators haven’t gone up into positive territory yet, but since they are all upward-slanting it reflects a short-term upward bias in the silver stocks that should allow for some further rally before the next short-term cycle peak. Full Story |
Weird Charts, A Weirder Market
By: David Bond | 23 June, 2006
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| The price of silver crossed the $6-an-ounce mark in late 2003 and early 2004, on its way to $8. Fast-forward to June 2006 solstice, where it seems to be building a pretty solid base level of support at $10 after settling back from $14. Now pick a silver miner, any silver miner, and overlay their stock price performance over silver’s price across the past five years, and you will find something remarkable. With a few exceptions in Toronto that we could find, silver mining stocks were doing hugely better when silver was at $8 and even $6 than now, when it is $10, or even a few months ago when it was at $14! Full Story |
Bull Run – Gold & Silver Accumulation Ramps Up
By: Todd Stein & Steven McIntyre, Texas Hedge Report | 22 June, 2006
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| The same trend of “a declining metal price, but increased ETF assets” can be seen in the silver ETF (SLV). Silver started the year at $8.85/oz. It subsequently rose 70% to $15/oz, before correcting by $5.50 to near $9.50 an ounce. The silver ETF began life on April 28th with silver at $12.55/oz. The silver ETF reached a peak of 73 million ounces in its vaults around the time physical prices peaked. With the aforementioned sell-off, silver ETF assets declined to 67 million ounces, but have since begun heading back upwards to a near peak level of 72-73 million ounces in the trust. Full Story |
NYMEX to Change Margins for Gold, Silver Futures Contracts
By: NYMEX | 16 June, 2006
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| NYMEX to Change Margins for Gold, Silver Futures Contracts. Full Story |
The Next “it” Product - Silver
By: John Rubino, Dollar Collapse | 6 June, 2006
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| These new uses for silver, in other words, take it off the market permanently. The more popular they are, the less silver there is in the world’s warehouses to satisfy investment demand. As InvestmentRarities’ Ted Butler is fond of pointing out, there’s already a looming shortage of silver sufficient to send the price into triple digits. Now the depletion rate of the world’s remaining silver is headed into overdrive. I think this answers the question of whether today's sell-off is a buying opportunity. Full Story |
Time to Buy Silver?
By: Timothy Silvers | 3 June, 2006
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| The price of silver and gold are highly depending on investor psychology right now and less dependent on the trading positions of the commercials. Dollar strength, peaceful resolution to the Iran nuclear issue, and further sell offs in copper, oil or other commodities, to name a few factors, could negatively impact the precious metals in the short term. Long term, I am as bullish as ever. Buy silver now while it’s still cheap and hold it until every waiter, cab driver and co-worker that you run into is talking your ear off about the next hot mining stock and how much money they are making on their silver and gold investments. Full Story |
The Last Contango in Washington
By: Antal E. Fekete | 3 June, 2006
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| People from around the world keep asking me what advance warning for the collapse of our international monetary system, based as it is on irredeemable promises to pay, they should be looking for. My answer invariably is: “watch for the last contango in silver”. Full Story |
Silver and Comex Update
By: Roland Watson, New Era Investor | 31 May, 2006
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| Our last update on silver back in January proved to be pessimistic in suggesting that silver may go no further than $11.30 before entering the first meaningful correction. As it turned out, $15.18 was the ultimate high as the metal surged against the meagre expectation of many an analyst. Full Story |
Fibrillated Silver Bull Flag
By: Jim Willie CB | 31 May, 2006
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| Technical chart analysis is called an art form, highly subjective, given to experienced interpretation, and not the least a hard science. With all the hubbub over the noticeable price corrections in gold, silver, copper, a fire has lit under my seat to address the chart pattern flashing bull in silver. Such a signal is not immediately obvious. It is debatable whether the silver pattern is from the textbook. Some see a top pattern instead in the silver chart, especially since upon retest, the 14.50 previous high gave way to a 15.0 high. My conclusion (losing fuzziness each week) is that silver is consolidating before another earth-shattering move up toward the 20 level. Full Story |
Silver as an Investment?
By: Jim Otis, The Optimist | 25 May, 2006
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| The investment community is not yet on the silver bandwagon, and many people do not even think of silver as an investment. The Optimist can confirm that in recent weeks, he heard many news headlines about the rising prices for gold and base metals like copper, but he did not hear any mention of the rapid rise in silver prices over the last three years. The news silence on silver, and the corresponding vacuum of information among the public, bode very well for future silver price increases. Every person who does not yet know about the very bullish fundamentals of silver is a potential future buyer, and will help to push prices ever higher. Full Story |
The Real Silver Deficit
By: David Zurbuchen | 19 May, 2006
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| Clearly, silver is not more rare than gold, but a 1 to 5.78 rarity ratio is indicative of the incredible leverage to be found in all silver related investments since the current ratio stands at roughly 1 to 54. Will it ever reach the ‘magical’ 1 to 5 ratio insisted upon by Bunker Hunt over 30 years ago? That remains to be seen. But at least now we know for certain that such an idea isn’t nearly as far-fetched as it might have otherwise seemed. Full Story |
Silver Is Only Second Best
By: Jim Otis | 16 May, 2006
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| Now that precious metals are again approaching a welcome buying opportunity after gold exceeded $700 and silver came close to $15, readers might expect the Optimist to bask in the accolades from his bold projection of those high prices a year ago. Alas, the Optimist fears that his strong statements about higher prices for silver (and gold) may have left readers with the mistaken impression that he thinks silver is the best possible investment. It is time for the Optimist to clearly confess that he views silver as only the second best investment one can make. The most important investment for everyone to focus on first is personal security. Full Story |
CBOT & NYMEX Margin Changes
By: SilverSeek.com | 15 May, 2006
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| CBOT & NYMEX Margin Changes. Full Story |
Silver Shorts Broken…Now What?
By: Timothy Silvers | 9 May, 2006
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| It looks like we are getting close to a low risk buy point in silver. The latest COMEX Commitment of Traders data related to the short position of the Commercial Traders (commercials) shows that the commercials have closed out a large portion of their short position. This is the first time, however, that they have had to close out at a loss. The price of silver did not correct to the low levels at which they originally went short. Full Story |
The Great Silver Spike of 1980
By: Roland Watson, New Era Investor | 9 May, 2006
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| We are getting excited about the things that lie ahead of us. Before us is a rising slope heading off to a barely perceptible mountain top that is shrouded in the mist of a new dawn. It rises imposingly above us yet its height remains uncertain due to our inexperience and uncertain memories of a prior peak. Many speak of that last ascent, but few had personally ascended it, save a few veteran mountaineers. Full Story |
Commercial Capitulation in Silver
By: Carl Löfberg | 5 May, 2006
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| It's been 4 weeks since I wrote my last article Big moves ahead in silver. Silver was trading then around $12. After that we have seen a climb up to almost $15, a plunge of more than $3 in less than 24hrs and a recovery up to levels above $14. These have been quite big moves IMO, but we are bound to see much bigger. Full Story |
Commodities: New Highs or Same Old Low
By: Wm. J. Murray | 4 May, 2006
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| Most commodities are a long way off from making new highs; I would say all that is happening is they are playing catch up. Or maybe they are losing control and the commodities are not as manipulated as they once were. When one sector of society can create money at will, while others have to trade their labor for it, how can we have free markets? My main focus is silver, where is the price of silver heading? Higher way higher or as Bill at www.LeMetropoleCafe.com says TO THE MOON. Full Story |
April Edition -- Northwest Mining Stock News
By: Tom Wobker | 26 April, 2006
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| April Edition -- Northwest Mining Stock News. Full Story |
CBOT Margin Changes - Silver
By: CBOT | 25 April, 2006
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| CBOT Margin Changes - Silver. Effective Close of Business April 26, 2006. Full Story |
Investment Opportunities for Accredited Investors in the Precious Metals Markets
By: SilverSeek.com | 21 April, 2006
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| Investment Opportunities for Accredited Investors in the Precious Metals Markets. Full Story |
NYMEX: Gold, Silver & Copper Futures Margin Increases
By: NYMEX | 20 April, 2006
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| The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. today announced margin changes for its gold, silver, and copper futures contracts, beginning at the close of business on Friday. Full Story |
CBOT Margin Changes - Silver
By: CBOT | 20 April, 2006
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| CBOT Margin Increase - Effective Close of Business April 21, 2006. Full Story |
Exchange to Change Margins for Silver and Copper Futures Contracts
By: NYMEX | 18 April, 2006
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| Margins for the silver futures contract will increase to $3,750 from $3,250 for clearing and non-clearing members and to $5,063 from $4,388 for customers. Full Story |
Exchange to Change Margins for Silver and Copper Futures Contracts
By: NYMEX | 13 April, 2006
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| Exchange to Change Margins for Silver and Copper Futures Contracts. Full Story |
CBOT Margin Changes - Silver
By: CBOT | 13 April, 2006
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| CBOT Margin Changes - Effective Close of Business April 17, 2006. Full Story |
Big Moves Ahead in Silver
By: Carl Löfberg | 9 April, 2006
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| It’s over 6 months since I wrote my last public article on silver and we are up more than $4 since then. Many things have changed in the silver market the past few months, but one remains more or less the same: the rather large COMEX commercial short position. Will this move in silver break the commercials backs and force them to liquidate a more significant part of the paper losses that run in the hundreds of millions? Will we see a massive commercial short covering rally? Or will the commercials be able to trigger yet another sell off in silver and cover their shorts at (much) lower levels? Full Story |
Hype Machine Ignores Gold & Silver
By: Todd Stein & Steven McIntyre | 4 April, 2006
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| CNBC is not in the news business; rather, they are all about high ratings. Their highest rated show these days is none other than Mad Money, which is basically one hour of Jim Cramer screaming at viewers to buy this and sell that. Mad Money reminds us of those 3am sports betting forecast shows where so-called experts give you their predictions on the week’s games. Hearing Jim Cramer scream “Buy Google” isn’t much different than Matthew McConaughey’s character in Two for the Money tell clients to take the Lions over the Packers. Full Story |
“Gold Forecaster – Global Watch” - Week Ended 24th March 2006 A New Dawn for Silver
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold Forecaster | 26 March, 2006
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| As we have said consistently, the demand for Silver is going to overtake supply and it may well be in the process of doing so now. With demand for silver for photography having dropped, but being more than replaced by new applications in industry and prints of digital photographs, global demand has moved to a point where it is greater than new global production. Full Story |
The Silver ETF - Not So Ironic After All?
By: Tom Szabo | 23 March, 2006
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| In a commentary on March 3, 2006, I argued a number of points about the proposed Barclays iShares Silver ETF, some of which were presented as being ironic or clarifications of widespread misunderstanding. Well, along came the SEC a couple days ago and approved the ETF, agreeing with the AMEX and seeming to render much of my argument as kibosh. The SEC Release approving the rule changes that will allow the silver ETF to trade on the AMEX can be found here. By the way, if you take the time to read these SEC comments, the only logical conclusion at which you will arrive is that the listing of this ETF is a foregone conclusion. Full Story |
Silver Update - ETF Approved!
By: Timothy Silvers | 22 March, 2006
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| Today we received some big news in the silver market. The SEC has approved Barclay’s iShares Silver Trust Exchange Traded Fund to be listed on the American Stock Exchange. The anticipation of this ruling has been one of the major factors pushing silver to recent high prices. The Silver ETF should take 130 Million ounces of silver out of available world inventory and put it into vaults in London to back the shares that are issued. In the intermediate and long term, this is extremely bullish for silver. Full Story |
Silver Vs Gold Stocks and Long Term Targets
By: Greg Silberman | 13 March, 2006
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| Silver BULLION clearly has the ability to way outperform Gold. Good Silver producers with controllable cost structures stand to make MASSIVE gains in the coming years. Clearly everyone MUST have some exposure to Silver’s terrific upside even though it may not fully materialize in the NEAR future. At this time I feel a portfolio weighting of 20% in Silver related investments is a good allocation. Full Story |
The Silver Bullet
By: Peter Degraaf | 6 March, 2006
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| On the fundamental side, we observe increasing demand for both silver and gold, and a growing reluctance on the part of central banks to sell or lease gold. There are two aspects to a successful trading strategy, and while this article highlights the technical side, it requires solid fundaments for balance. I find the articles featured at the Silverseek.com website to be of invaluable assistance. These are written by people who have done their homework. I then apply Technical Analysis (TA), to determine when to buy or when to sell, and this makes for a complete strategy. Full Story |
Hi-Ho Silver; Gold and Mining Shares to Follow
By: Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital | 4 March, 2006
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| Rather than looking to what mining share speculators think might happen to metals prices in the future, look at what is actually happening today. With gold prices once again approaching $570 and silver prices above $10 per ounce for the first time in twenty-two years, it is clear that real money is moving into precious metals, and that it will be there for the duration. Full Story |
Silver ETF Ironies
By: Tom Szabo | 2 March, 2006
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| The proposed Barclays silver ETF, like all other ETFs, will be actively manipulated in order to keep share prices tightly tracking the spot market. But because the silver ETF has the potential to overwhelm the spot market, which is relatively small and devoid of available stockpiles, the SEC is unlikely to approve it as currently drafted. Full Story |
Silver Zoom Ignored
By: Todd Stein & Steven McIntyre | 2 March, 2006
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| So after a quarter of a century, silver finally returned to double-digits. While we aren’t fans of following day-to-day moves, the recent zoom past the $10/oz mark is noteworthy. It seems that the precious metals community is anticipating the launch of the silver ETF – so perhaps this is what is causing the grey dog to bark. Maybe that’s the case, but we certainly don’t think that abnormal amounts bullion are being gobbled up by Barclays in anticipation of the ETF’s launch. Nor do we think that the public is suddenly hoarding silver. Full Story |
The Silver Deficit (1942-2004)
By: David Zurbuchen | 28 February, 2006
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| One problem with documenting the silver deficit is that world consumption rates are almost non-existent prior to 1955, at least according to my research. If this data is available, please bring it to my attention. But despite the lack of official figures, one can know to a fairly accurate degree how much ‘deficit’ has accumulated worldwide in the years prior to 1955 through the use of some comparative math. In order to accomplish this, we must first obtain US silver consumption data. Full Story |
The Paradigm Shift Is Here, Or, Everybody Must Be Stoned
By: David Bond | 24 February, 2006
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| If we can get through the end of next month without serious economic havoc (say, the whole planet blowing up, or a full-tilt outbreak of the bird flu pandemic in Arkansas) it might be safe to dig a few of those rat-holed Maple Leafs, Morgan dollars and Krugerrands out of that backyard coffee can and trade them out for Fednotes at your local pawnbroker or coin-dealer. But in the middle of a paradigm shift, things move very rapidly, so don’t go reaching for the shovel just yet. Full Story |
Shiver Me Timbers!
By: Wayne Krautkramer | 23 February, 2006
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| Yes, the battle of the silver fundamentalists has begun. There are a few arguments involved, but the main point of contention is very basic. There is, or is not, a shortage of silver at this time. Your response will depend on which argument you believe, and this argument can also lead one into total confusion. Full Story |
The Silver Versus Gold Debate
By: Steve Saville, The Speculative Investor | 22 February, 2006
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| Putting it another way, we think silver has greater long-term upside POTENTIAL than gold but when we weigh the downside RISK against the upside potential we come to the conclusion that gold is the better investment. Full Story |
Gold & Silver: Explosion Ahead!
By: Team Silberinfo | 20 February, 2006
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| Silver is being analized lusty from many sides only in comparison with the gold price as the price movements of silver are dependent of the ones from gold; in other words: both currencies are perfectly positive correlated. And indeed, if one takes a look at the below silver price since 1980 one can see that the silver price is rising as well within a trend channel which was broken to the upside recently and just undertook a pullback to the formely strong resistance line. However, one difference is that this upward trend channel began 1991 – exactly 10 years before gold. Full Story |
Silver ETF: investors can take decisive action NOW to get it approved
By: Hubberts Peak-aware Fundamental Analysis | 14 February, 2006
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| Follows a comment I have just sent to the SEC regarding the proposed Barclays' iShares Silver Trust ETF. I offer it as a model to use for anyone who agrees with the concepts therein. I know that the period for comments has probably expired. However, if the SEC is conspicuously flooded with comments like this it is very unlikely that they will be able to ignore the addressed issues. Full Story |
GoldSeek.com Internet Radio presents Roland Watson, Jim Willie and Dave Morgan
By: radio.GoldSeek.com | 13 February, 2006
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| The Gold and Silver Review at GoldSeek.com presents Elliott Wave technician, Roland Watson and market analyst, Jim Willie. We'll also have Dave Morgan back to discuss his great call on the silver market last week. Full Story |
Washington Fiddles While the Economy Burns
By: www.DailyReckoning.com | 10 February, 2006
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Silver Market Thoughts
By: Timothy Silvers | 10 February, 2006
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| January has been an exciting month in the precious metals markets. Gold and silver have reached highs not seen since 1987. It’s been a over a month since my last article “No Correction Yet?” so I thought it was about time to put my silver market thoughts on paper again. The strength of this bull market the past few months has been quite impressive. For long-term investors of physical silver it shouldn’t matter if we have a correction in the near future or not, but if you are trading silver I still see signs that we should be cautious Full Story |
Reply to Gary North on Silver
By: Roland Watson | 8 February, 2006
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| So with that I end my response. Gary North favours a metal portfolio balanced in favour of gold rather than silver. I recommend silver in some significant proportion of a portfolio that is also amply represented by gold. Either way, gold and silver will do very well in the years and even decades ahead. Full Story |
Bush’s Budget Cuts Merely Smoke and Mirrors, Expert Warns
By: DailyReckoning.com | 7 February, 2006
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Bush’s Budget Cuts Merely Smoke and Mirrors, Expert Warns
By: DailyReckoning.com | 7 February, 2006
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GoldSeek.com Internet Radio (radio.goldseek.com): David Morgan, Silver Investor
By: GoldSeek.com Internet Radio | 4 February, 2006
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| This week's guest on GoldSeek.com Internet Radio is David Morgan, Silver Investor. Full Story |
The Times They Are A Changing
By: Rob Kirby | 31 January, 2006
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| Well folks, thanks to the opaque policies of central banks where precious metals [gold and silver] are concerned – [even when clued in] one really has to “really dig” and connect a few dots to get to the core or truth of matters in this regard. In an un-backed fiat monetary system – with central banks around the world working in concert toward a common end [covertly selling, leasing, double counting and otherwise misreporting their stocks of metal] – it’s no wonder the average Jane and Joe have little idea as to the fraud, namely unchecked, deliberate, uncontrolled printing of money being foisted upon them. Full Story |
Bernanke Faces Stiff Headwinds
By: www.dailyreckoning.com | 31 January, 2006
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Silver ETF Packs Punch
By: Todd Stein & Steven McIntyre | 27 January, 2006
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| In our articles titled “Silver ETF: Shock & Awe” and “Powerful Silver ETF”, we highlighted how the introduction of a silver ETF would send shockwaves through the financial markets. We used the introduction of the U.S. gold ETFs (tickers: GLD & IAU) as a model of what would happen to physical silver demand once the silver ETF (proposed ticker: SLV) starts trading on the Amex. Now that a little more than one year has passed since the gold ETFs were introduced, let’s take another look at just how much demand for silver could be impacted. Full Story |
Gold's in the Limelight, but Silver's Backstage…
By: David Zurbuchen | 26 January, 2006
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| I read an article last month in the Chicago Tribune entitled “Gold’s Back, in all its Flighty Glory”, and I’ve been meaning to pen a short piece on it. Featured on the front page of the “Your Money” section, complete with a pot-o- gold suspended above a very bullish 30-year chart of gold’s price performance, it seemed as if the yellow metal really was back in all its glory. But what about silver? Full Story |
The World’s Central Banks Must Keep Buying Gold
By: DailyReckoning.com | 25 January, 2006
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| As central banks around the world consider bolstering their gold reserves, one analyst says their only choice is to buy more. And prices will continue setting records as a result. Full Story |
The World’s Cumulative Gold and Silver Production
By: David Zurbuchen | 14 January, 2006
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| I’m a relatively new face in the gold and silver bug community, and while attempting to conduct research of my own I found it frustrating that there did not seem to be any sort of comprehensive data source dealing with the subjects of silver and gold production and consumption. In an effort to change this, I’ve spent several hundred hours this past month perusing through thousands of pages of documents (namely, the Minerals Yearbooks (1933-2004)). It is my hope that this series of articles will serve as reliable reference material for all future writers, researchers, believers and skeptics, saving them all much time and effort better spent breaking new ground in the ever thickening plot behind… Full Story |
Still a Steal?
By: Jim Cook, Investment Rarities | 11 January, 2006
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| Everything I’ve mentioned here has been written about and explained by the world’s premier silver analyst, Theodore Butler. No credible silver expert has ever mounted a reasoned or logical argument that overturns a single point that he’s made. That in itself is reason enough for you to seriously consider silver. Full Story |
Investment Opportunities for Accredited Investors in the Precious Metals Markets
By: SilverSeek.com | 10 January, 2006
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| If you fit into this category you may be eligible for many investment opportunities such as hedge funds, private placement financing and more. SilverSeek.com occasionally comes across such opportunities and invites accredited investors to be placed in contact with us to learn more. Full Story |
Controlling Gold [& Silver] Over Time
By: Nelson Hultberg, AFR | 19 December, 2005
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| "How much gold and silver is enough," inquired one of my readers the other day? "How much do we need to protect ourselves?" My reply was that five and ten percent of one's portfolio seem to be way too low if things are really as bad as the analysts make out. If they really believe that the dollar is going to crash big time, then why would any analyst advocate only 5%-10% of one's wealth in gold and silver? This is one of those mystifying irrationalities that circulates among the "experts" without any justification. Full Story |
Explaining Silver to the Masses
By: Greg Kyle, Silver Is Wealth | 14 December, 2005
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| With those same media outlets failing to report on the recent gains in silver prices, silver apparently remains uninteresting. This apathy will likely continue until prices increase enough for the media and the masses to take notice. So turn off the TV and read articles like this, each newsletter, website and book you can find on the subject. Consider buying some silver with those potentially worthless fiat dollars. Just don't buy too much yet. I'd like silver to stay cheap for as long as possible so I can buy more. Full Story |
Ionic Silver Complex Designed for Use in Humans Receives U.S. Patent
By: Invision International Health Solutions | 7 December, 2005
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| Invision International Health Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in the field of ionic silver use in humans, recently announced the issuance of a U.S. Patent on its "Ionic Silver Complex" technology. Full Story |
A "Santa Claus Rally" for the Gold/Silver Stocks
By: Clif Droke | 6 December, 2005
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| In my previous commentary I asked the rhetorical question as to why there are so many investors manifesting a bearish spirit on the gold stocks right now despite the XAU, HUI and GOX indices have recently made new highs for the year? I concluded that it could be that many mid-tier and junior mining shares are still coming off recent lows and haven’t quite picked up enough upward momentum to capture the public’s imagination. Full Story |
Silver Versus Gold
By: Steven Saville, Speculative Investor | 23 November, 2005
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| During the first half of September we came to the conclusion that silver had considerably more short-term upside potential than gold. As a result we bulked-up our exposure to silver during the second half of September and the first week of October by adding Mines Management (AMEX: MGN), Western Silver (AMEX: WTZ) and Coeur D'Alene Mines (NYSE: CDE) to the list of TSI stock selections. We also reiterated our bullish view on junior silver explorer/producer First Majestic Resource (TSXV: FR) three times between 2nd September and 10th October. Each of the aforementioned silver plays has done quite well over the past two months and each has the potential to do a lot better over the next 2-4 months. Full Story |
Powerful Silver ETF
By: Todd Stein & Steven McIntyre | 4 November, 2005
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| Yes, we know, you’ve heard it all before from silver bulls that silver could spike at any time etc. etc. Such talk and relatively little follow-through price-wise is frustrating for those of us who have held physical silver for years, even considering that the grey metal has almost doubled over the last four years. But suppose the new silver ETF, which is currently being reviewed by the SEC, has the power to create an immediate tightness in the metal once it is introduced. Moreover suppose that this scenario is not cooked up by the silver-bug community, but rather, by a group of manufacturers and customers who have dealt with silver for decades. Full Story |
Halloween Edition -- Northwest Mining Stock News
By: Tom Wobker | 31 October, 2005
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| We’re no great shakes at math out here. But the handful of rounded off numbers below caught our attention. To us, they add up to a pretty important point about equity investing so far during the New Millennium. Do the math yourself and see. Meantime -- while we wait for the Great Pumpkin to arrive with presents for us -- here are some of the new developments in our neck of the woods. Full Story |
The SUA Took My Silver Away
By: The Mogambo Guru | 24 October, 2005
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| So, if you want my Stupid Mogambo Opinion (SMO) about whether silver is astonishingly cheap in light of these two developments, namely the announcement by China that they were in the market as buyers, and the SUA announcing that a stinking ETF would make silver so scarce that it would drive up the price to crippling levels, then I will take this opportunity to show off. Without a safety net or even checking the facts, I fearlessly announce that I am staking out my claim to financial immortality by loudly proclaiming, in that piercing, girly screech I call a voice, that silver, at less than eight bucks an ounce, is so freaking cheap that it is also the fabled Mogambo Investment Tip Of The Century (MITOTC), which reads, in its entirety, "Buy silver now! And lots of it!" Full Story |
Silver's Bear Trap
By: Carl Löfberg | 25 September, 2005
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| It seems odd how willing the tech funds are to come up with new & innovative ways of throwing money at the commercials. Previously it has been (strongly leveraged) longs with quite tight stops, now shorts with tight stops. But they day will come when the silver price is not set at the Comex anymore, and that day is drawing closer. That being said, and with silver's very bullish fundamentals (and the seasonals possibly starting to also kick in), I am optimistic about silvers performance for the rest of the year. Full Story |
Endeavour Silver Corp. - On the Move!
By: Eric Hommelberg | 6 September, 2005
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| Junior mining investors seem to be a bit depressed these days and many fear they’ll have to wait years for any real excitement to kick back into the junior arena, therefore leaving them no other choice but to throw in the towel. Although that terrible sentiment seems to be somewhat justified these days, I strongly believe that something seems to be happening on a positive note since May 2005. Full Story |
Silver - Commercial Net Shorts at 2 year Low
By: Carl Löfberg | 3 September, 2005
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| The current COT structure where we have comparatively high commercial net shorts in gold and comparatively low net shorts in silver is new and I don't claim to know what will happen short term. When I don't have strong opinions about the short-term I stick fully with the fundamentals. I believe that we are in a generational bull markets in both gold and silver for fundamental but different reasons. Full Story |
Exclusive Interview with David Morgan
By: Silberinfo | 26 August, 2005
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| Five years ago, Mr. Morgan put his life long study of free-market economics to work researching precious metals, especially silver. Although very familiar with gold, Mr. Morgan believed that silver needed more exposure and would be utilized increasingly as technology continued to demand more and more of the metal. Full Story |
To Build a Silver Rocket
By: Charleston Voice | 22 August, 2005
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| If your silver junior and explorer stocks are languishing at ho-hum performance levels like mine, then you've probably been thinking what else you can do to wake up this slumbering monster metal. We know the mining stocks are unable to turn a meaningful profit because their costs are not fully replenished by a rising silver price. Their costs to mine are rising sharply, but their assets are not. It gets old doesn't it. We need excitement. Full Story |
Silver's Short-Term Direction?
By: Carl Löfberg | 9 August, 2005
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| With the 10-cent correction in silver after Tuesday and with the current COT structure in silver as well as in gold and the dollar, I am very optimistic about the rest of this year for silver and gold investors. The 7 month long dollar rally might have finally come to an end and the sideways chopping silver and gold markets have a good change of breaking through their multi month triangle formations to the upside in the not too distant future. Full Story |
The Silver Stock Sector in August
By: Clif Droke, Gold Strategies Review | 5 August, 2005
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| In last week’s article, "Will August show kindness to the XAU?" we looked at historical and seasonal data that suggests that August will turn out to be an overall positive month for the gold and silver shares. In most years, the XAU will post a near-term bottom in July and then move higher off those lows in August. The XAU and HUI indices have already given preliminary indications of following this August seasonal pattern as we start the month. Full Story |
SILVER – COT Structure Suggests Something is Afoot
By: Dan Norcini | 22 July, 2005
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| Something most remarkable appears to be developing in the silver market. The funds are continuing to move over onto the short side having now built up the largest short position they have carried since APRIL 2003! What is particularly interesting is that the funds are still net long but the total number of shorts they are now carrying is almost the same as their net long position. For some reason or the other, there are a goodly number of these guys who are quite bearish on silver even at these absurdly low levels. Full Story |
Firecracker Edition -- Northwest Mining Stock News
By: Tom Wobker | 8 July, 2005
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| Buoyed by decent metals prices, Northwest miners are busier this summer than they’ve been in a month of Sundays. Yet there is all the excitement of drying paint in the slow downward drift of many of the stocks. Some commentators say this is a normal consolidation after the first leg of a metals bull market. They expect the bull to run some more, and we tend to agree. The big question is when. Guesses range from any day now, to year-end or later. Full Story |
Trading Thoughts From The Value View Gold Report
By: Ned W. Schmidt,CFA,CEBS | 3 July, 2005
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| Five days came together to let the markets sag on Friday. Thursday was the FOMC meeting. Friday was Canada Day, then the weekend, and Monday is 4th of July in the U.S. With five days of buyers stepping back, or headed for the back yard to do ribs, the markets sagged. Simply no buyers around. Full Story |
The Silver Solution
By: Stephen Kovaka | 27 June, 2005
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| Let me just briefly make the case that most of you have already heard many times before. Far more silver is consumed every year than is produced. Identifiable stocks are nearing exhaustion. Prices have already broken out above the perennial $5 cap, and even penetrated $8. Had you bought silver three years ago, you would have already gained above 60% on your purchase in terms of FRNs, with almost no downside risk. Silver has been a superior cash position. Full Story |
The Silver Conundrum
By: Stephen Kovaka | 23 June, 2005
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| If honest, Constitutional coinage were to be restored, silver would be nearly indispensable as its foundation. It is not just a historical accident that the dollar was defined in silver rather than in gold. Coins, and especially silver coins in the hands of the people is the essential means of replacing our fiat money system and closing the doors of the Fed forever. It is not enough for the gold or silver to exist in some secret government vault, “guaranteeing” the value of paper; we’ve already been there and found that this was merely the first step in eliminating silver and gold from use altogether. He who has possession of the gold (and silver) makes the rules. Should it be the Federal Reserve, or We the People? Full Story |
Silver ETF May Cause Spike
By: Todd Stein & Steven McIntyre, Texas Hedge Report | 13 June, 2005
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| Perhaps the biggest wild card in the 2005-2006 timeframe for silver prices is the introduction of the silver ETF and its success (or lack thereof). Since early last year, silver bulls such as ourselves have been taken with the notion of a silver ETF and its impact on the silver market. Silver is such a small, tight, relatively illiquid market that a successful innovation in the way for individuals and mutual funds to own silver (without the hassles of storage costs and steep premiums to spot) could have a pronounced effect on the silver price. Full Story |
Silver and Gold COT Increasingly Bullish, May 27th 2005
By: Carl Löfberg | 29 May, 2005
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| We had a nice little rally in silver today and closed at $7.27, just slightly above the upper resistance. One close above the resistance does not signal a clear brake out but we could be close. Next week will tell us. We have not seen any significant changes in the COT structure for silver. The commercial shorts and non-commercial longs stand at comparatively low levels which have preceded moves to the upside the past two years. The commercial longs are at their highest in almost two years. Full Story |
Will Silver Lag or Lap Gold?
By: Todd Stein & Steven McIntyre | 1 February, 2005
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| While no one is lining up to buy ABBA records these days, it sure feels like the 1970s are back. Stagflation has reappeared, gold has awakened from its long hibernation, and Donald Rumsfeld & Dick Cheney are doing their thing in Washington. Given this environment, an investor would be wise to consider allocating a portion of his wealth to non-Dollar assets. But which ones? Full Story |
U.S. Law Still May Authorize Seizure of Gold & Silver; GATA Queries Treasury
By: Chris Powell, GATA | 26 January, 2005
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| Despite recent assurances to the contrary from the U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. law still appears to empower the president to seize gold and silver coins, bullion, and shares in mining companies from private citizens. Full Story |
Silver Price Motor Greased by Oil
By: David Ford | 24 January, 2005
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| There definitely is a relationship between the price of oil and silver. The recent big down moves in silver have a history of being preceded by what looks like engineered down moves in oil. The delay recently is about 6-10 trading days. It could be argued that Oil moves first – then Silver follows – in both directions. Now that oil has broken out to the upside again in similar fashion to the consolidation in September I expect that Silver should also follow as long as oil continues to move up. Full Story |
Gold & Silver Stocks - Major Buy Signals Occurred On Friday January 21 For HUI, NEM, and the XAU
By: Joe Ferrazzano, Trade The Cycles | 23 January, 2005
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| The silver Commercial Traders added 1795 long futures and options contracts and added 1156 short futures and options contracts which portends strength (non contrarian indicator) this week, but the addition of 1156 short futures and options indicates they expect some weakness. Full Story |
Silver Stocks - HUI & XAU Short Term Cycle Lows Appear To Be In
By: Joe F. Rocks | 29 December, 2004
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| The Commitments of Traders (COT) data as of 12-14-04 for both gold and silver reveals dramatic repositioning on the part of both the non contrarian gold/silver Commercial Traders and the contrarian gold/silver Speculators, which indicates that both gold and silver may have bottomed. The non contrarian gold Commercial Traders added a substantial 12,197 long futures and options contracts and covered an unusually large (> 10% of the short contracts) 34,863 short futures and options contracts while the contrarian gold Speculators sold an unusually large (> 10% of the long contracts) 51,913 long futures and options contracts but did cover (what for them is) an unusually large (> 10% of the short contracts) 6597 short futures and options contracts. A similar story exists for silver. Full Story |
Silver's Three Flags
By: Hugo Salinas Price | 18 December, 2004
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| Silver's flags, therefore, are three: * The flag of people's savings. * The flag of national union. * The flag of the preservation of men against dehumanization. The silver coin as money: an idea that has come alive and will not be suppressed. Full Story |
Paper Caper
By: James R. Cook, Investment Rarities Inc. | 17 November, 2004
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| My advice here is not aimed at only new silver buyers, I am speaking to those who have bought silver already, over the years, with no input from me. My advice for those holding paper silver in questionable form is to get your silver into unquestionable form. Get out of pool accounts and unallocated silver, and into real and allocated silver. Hold your silver in hand or with someone you trust. The additional costs will prove well worth it. Make the switch now, while you can. Don't wait for the price to rise, it may be too late. I can't think of a worse outcome than for someone to have invested in silver for a long time, to be denied a profit when the price rises, because they held the wrong form of stored silver. Please don't let that happen to you." Full Story |
Investment Policy on Silver - Nov. 2004
By: Ned W. Schmidt,CFA,CEBS, The Value View of Gold Report | 1 November, 2004
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| Recently we announced that the Long-Term Momentum Model for Gold had turned positive. We are happy to announce that the Long-Term Momentum Model for Silver has returned to a positive reading. That action suggests that Silver is likely moving out of the correction in which it has been for some time. Further, that both markets are now with positive readings is confirmation of the renewal in the bull market for precious metals. The Gold Super Cycle continues! Full Story |
Own Silver in Your IRA? You Bet!
By: Danielle Dwyer-Psarras, Euro Pacifc Capital | 28 October, 2004
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| Have you found it difficult to find a secure program that will allow you to hold silver & other precious metals in a retirement account? Well, I want to let you in on a secret: as a matter of fact, it is extremely simple to own metal in your IRA through the Perth Mint Certificate Program (PMCP). So, if you are looking to own precious metals in a traditional IRA, Roth, SEP or Simple IRA, the PMCP might be the program for you. Full Story |
True Price of Gold & Silver
By: Dr. T, Ph.D. | 18 October, 2004
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| With each passing day, central bankers and our corrupt governments create more fiat paper money. As a result, the true prices of silver and gold continue to increase with each passing moment, until the day shall arrive that the federal reserve, and all other central bankers, will be forced to terminate their unethical counterfeiting of money. One by one, all nations will return to gold and silver backed money. Until then, keep on buying physical gold and silver, for they are the pillars of monetary truth, and truth is the key to success. Without it, all that follows is built on a shoddy foundation, and the waters of time gradually (and sometimes swiftly, depending on you time scale) erode away the very underpinning of all our endeavors. Full Story |
Wise Up Silver Investors
By: Dr. Garry Mathews | 4 October, 2004
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| The idea of boycotting or abstaining from the purchase of shares in companies like PAAS or HL, because they are using their cash to accumulate silver in the ground for pennies per ounce, instead of purchasing bullion for dollars per ounce is insane. His ridiculous notion that all companies should acquire 100% of their capital through the issuance of more shares (dilution) instead of borrowing, on the sole basis of “scriptures” about debt and usury has more holes in it than a sieve. How many businesses in the world would we have if no one borrowed start-up funds? GIVE ME A BREAK! Full Story |
The S.M.A.R.T. Silver Equation
By: Rock Gale | 1 October, 2004
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| I started writing and investing in silver more than two years ago when the Price Of Silver (POS) was $4.50/oz. In one story, I flogged that tired old rocket metaphor yet again. Why does seem it get used so often? Is it really an appropriate analogy? And if so, I wonder if I can plot its trajectory. I must warn non-technical readers that this article may cause extreme drowsiness, which could possibly lead to narcolepsy. Full Story |
1-2-3-Go! COT Structure Getting Better for Silver Investment Entry
By: Carl, Kulta Keskus | 23 September, 2004
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| At this point with commercial short positions and open interest [6] at its lowest this year, the commercial short to long ratio at 3,52 and large speculator long positions down 38% to 32304 contracts in only two weeks the silver market seems to be once again getting more and more dimes to the downside and dollars to the upside. Full Story |
Endeavour to Acquire Producing Silver-Gold Mine in Durango, Mexico
By: Endeavour Gold Corp. | 28 January, 2004
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| Endeavour Gold Corp. (EDR: TSX-V) announces that it has signed an option agreement to acquire up to a 100% interest in the producing Santa Cruz silver-gold mine and Guanacevi mineral processing plant in Durango, Mexico. Terms of the agreement give Endeavour the option to pay US $3 million to the vendors and invest US $1 million in mine exploration and development within one year in order to earn a 51% interest in the mine and plant, and pay an additional US $4 million over an additional 3 years in order to earn a 100% interest in these operating assets. Full Story |
Endeavour to Acquire Producing Silver-Gold Mine in Durango, Mexico
By: Endeavour Gold Corp. | 28 January, 2004
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| Endeavour Gold Corp. (EDR: TSX-V) announces that it has signed an option agreement to acquire up to a 100% interest in the producing Santa Cruz silver-gold mine and Guanacevi mineral processing plant in Durango, Mexico. Terms of the agreement give Endeavour the option to pay US $3 million to the vendors and invest US $1 million in mine exploration and development within one year in order to earn a 51% interest in the mine and plant, and pay an additional US $4 million over an additional 3 years in order to earn a 100% interest in these operating assets. Full Story |
Endeavour to Acquire Producing Silver-Gold Mine in Durango, Mexico
By: Endeavour Gold Corp. | 28 January, 2004
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| Endeavour Gold Corp. (EDR: TSX-V) announces that it has signed an option agreement to acquire up to a 100% interest in the producing Santa Cruz silver-gold mine and Guanacevi mineral processing plant in Durango, Mexico. Terms of the agreement give Endeavour the option to pay US $3 million to the vendors and invest US $1 million in mine exploration and development within one year in order to earn a 51% interest in the mine and plant, and pay an additional US $4 million over an additional 3 years in order to earn a 100% interest in these operating assets. Full Story |