Silver Producers Enter Profitable Phase, Part II: Reaping the Dividends
By: Sean Rakhimov | 28 June, 2011
It's all great of course, that silver has finally broken out of the decades long resistance level in the $22-25 area and the race is on towards bigger and better numbers. As of this writing silver is still trading around $36/oz, which is about $20 over the price it was at when we penned the prequel to this piece. That's a lot of dough that should be landing on the bottom line of silver producers' balance sheets. So we thought an update was in order to provide a context to all the moaning out there that silver has "crashed" from $50 to mid $30ies presently. Full Story


Silver Going Mainstream in 2011
By: The Gold Report and Sean Rakhimov | 15 January, 2011
Never mind the correction in the price of silver, says Silver Strategies Editor Sean Rakhimov; better things are ahead. "It may be volatile; it may be steep; but it should be short-lived," he says, adding that he expects silver to rise well above its 2010 high at some point in 2011. Some of that price support could come from governments entering the silver market. Find out all the reasons for this in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. Full Story


Why Governments Will Buy Silver
By: Sean Rakhimov | 2 December, 2010
Over the last several months we have been pondering if governments will come into the silver market. Before we get into that, it is important to note that governments are very different animals and there are over two hundred of them out there. Therefore, it is a very liberal generalization to lump them all together as if their needs, objectives and agendas were the same, thus expecting them all to act in the same fashion for the same reasons, is a big stretch. That said, it's the stigma, the psychological effect, the sentiment and the message it would send to markets that prompts us to group them together in investors' minds as a market force. Full Story


Silver Producers Enter Profitable Phase
By: Sean Rakhimov | 30 August, 2010
The latest quarterly (Q2, ended June 30, 2010) results from a number of silver producers confirm that they are now entering a phase of sustainable profits. We will look at several companies and try to make sense of the numbers as well as make an EPS projection for the calendar year 2010. Full Story


The Fear Trade Is In
By: Sean Rakhimov, Silver Strategies | 1 July, 2010
Gold has been the star performer compared to silver in last couple of years. Or so you would think based on the headlines and the amount of attention either gets. That is because gold is the big dog in the race - it is a bigger receptacle and logical place to go for the "big" money. However, the main reason we zeroed in on silver back around year 2000 was our conclusion that in the coming hard assets bull market silver would outperform gold comparative terms 3-to-1. The other metric we have cited in the same context is that gold-to-silver ratio would get below 20:1 before the end of this bull market and possibly below 10:1. For reference, as of this writing the ratio is around 70:1. Full Story


Institutionalized Market
By: Sean Rakhimov | 19 November, 2009
The new realities of the precious metal markets are inescapably obvious. In the classic - three legs up, two legs down - bull market pattern, we are undoubtedly in the second "institutional" or "big money" stage. For Elliott Wave fans this would be the 'C' wave, characterized as the longest with a potential break mid-way. Full Story


Positioning For The Next Move In Silver
By: Sean Rakhimov | 15 October, 2009
Despite our reservations in the short term, we are very bullish on silver longer term. More importantly, we believe that the next big move up in silver is about to begin. Not tomorrow, not next week, but in the medium term, say next couple of years, we should see silver at much higher prices, perhaps on the order of a double the current level. Full Story


Sean Rakhimov: The Calm Before the Storm
By: The Gold Report and Sean Rakhimov | 17 April, 2009
SilverStrategies.com editor Sean Rakhimov expects the economic crisis may go on for a generation even with (or because of) all the government intervention. In this exclusive interview with the Gold Report, he tells us he expects physical gold and silver to lead the parade. When picking stocks to buy now, he says investors have to decide for themselves whether a company will survive the washout; it may be tough going from here to there, but ignoring short-term market fluctuations and sticking with survivors should prove beneficial in the long run. Full Story


Gold, DOW, AMEX and NASDAQ priced in SILVER ounces
By: SilverStrategies.com | 27 May, 2008
Developed over 3 years continuation Triangle pattern was decisively broke-down and confirmed as a resistance for Gold-Silver ratio - proof of higher Silver leverage over Gold. Full Story


Three Pictures of Silver
By: SilverStratetgies.com team | 10 March, 2008
So far so good - the pattern proves persistent rate of growth and almost identical time span for subsequent consolidations, each consolidation lasted two years. However, we expect increased volatility and ascent of silver price to accelerate. We're five years into this bull market and there is no cycle top in sight yet. Full Story


Speaking Of Silver
By: Sean Rakhimov | 9 April, 2007
We'll start with the bad news. The bad news is that there are very few people who know much about the silver market on both sides of the argument: bulls and bears. That is our unequivocal conclusion. It's also meant to be a warning. There are some very influential people with good track records and credentials in various aspects of investing and analysis who have spoken out on silver in the last year or two. Some of them were bullish, which of course, we tend to like. Then there were a few bearish ones. Full Story


Bulls and Bears Fight..
By: SilverStateiges TA Team | 9 April, 2007
SILVER- The picture has not changed so much since our last CG report, and despite the MACD negative indication we suggest not to change the direction until further and more revealing price action. Full Story


Year 2007 Scenarios for SILVER
By: SilverStrategies.com | 14 March, 2007
The aggressive scenario -
Given economic factors such as inflation, industrial shortage and investment demand could easily push Silver above the upper bound of its classical "Ascending Triangle" (continuation formation). The events of this magnitude normally trigger the "buying panic" winch will drive the metal's price to $20.50 level.
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Mysterious Triangles
By: SilverStrategies.com | 3 January, 2007
SILVER:
Here is the classical chart formation: - price decisively moved above the pattern and then pulled back to the support created by the same triangle's side.
GOLD:
Very similar development is observed for yellow metal, and now we just have keep an eye on the key support line.
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Silver and $XAU Weekly Charts
By: SilverStrategies.com | 14 November, 2006
On 6 year chart Silver looks very strong, all major trends are UP and intact. 2006 Spring-Summer correction holds above reasonable support lines which are matching to important 50% and 38.2% Fibonacci re-tracement levels. In the mean the time price stays within the trading range between $11.00 and $13.25, however the MACD cross-over speaks in favor further price advancing... Full Story


GOLD-SILVER ratio and the outlook at HOUSING in SILVER terms
By: SilverStrategies.com | 17 October, 2006
GOLD-SILVER Ratio since 1981
GOLD-SILVER Ratio (6 year chart)
GOLD-SILVER Ratio (3 year chart)
HOUSING INDEX-SILVER Ratio (3 year chart)
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Mixed Bag of Chinese Cookies
By: Sean Rakhimov | 2 March, 2006
We just returned from a nine day trip to China. Having spent a few days in Shanghai, a day in Guangzhou and the rest of time in places less traveled, including two silver projects, we had some ideas that we’d like to share. Normally we stick to silver in our writing, but this time we felt compelled to stray if just a little bit. Then again, as you will read below, silver is such a unique metal, such an integral part of our lives that in any type of development in modern society will have a “silver angle”. Full Story


Silver Continues to Outperform Gold
By: Sean Rakhimov | 23 December, 2005
It has been a very good year for silver and 2006 should be at least as good. We’ll skip the “nothing goes straight up” rhetoric and get right down to it. Looking in the rear-view mirror at the year past we reflect on what it has or has not done for you - the silver investor. We find a great deal of satisfaction in proving the nay-sayers were wrong yet again. Full Story


A Layman’s Case For Silver
By: Sean Rakhimov | 23 November, 2005
There have been quite a few articles on silver and its potential to appreciate in paper money terms lately. We agree. We don’t necessarily agree with all the reasons put forth to prove that theory by fellow writers or share all the views on the subject, but we agree with the underlying premise: silver price is set to go up in all paper currencies. Full Story


Update on Silver Companies, October 2005
By: Sean Rakhimov | 27 October, 2005
We received a good deal of feedback to the first article of this series and took it upon ourselves to provide a periodic update on silver companies that have had significant developments in the given stretch of time. We found this exercise useful for ourselves as well as those readers who took the time to send us their comments. The purpose of this overview is to reflect on some of the news that did/could/should have a substantial impact on company’s operations either immediate or longer term. Full Story


If You Like Gold Buy Silver
By: Sean Rakhimov | 11 October, 2005
The world is running out of silver. Or is it? Let us qualify that: the world is running out of cheap silver. And how, you ask, we arrive at such conclusion? And I turn it right back at you, and say – show me the silver! With the price of every commodity going up what do you think it will do to the price of silver? Full Story


Emerging Silver Producers
By: Sean Rakhimov | 7 September, 2005
Jim Puplava has just created a Gold Index that makes an emphasis on quality juniors including silver juniors. With that in mind we decided to look at some of the emerging silver producers that may qualify to be added to shopping lists of institutions entering the sector or otherwise materially impact their own standing by becoming a producer. Full Story


Silver Stocks on Sale
By: Sean Rakhimov, Silver Strategies | 2 June, 2005
Investing can be rather boring if you as you should keep asking yourself – did the fundamentals change? And so long as the answer is “NO” stick with your positions. But we can’t expect the markets to be rational, can we? Trouble is, in the long run they are and that is exactly what we’re betting on. Full Story