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 Sh |