Commentaries

Last week silver was the focus of incredible price swings which left many licking their wounds and shaking their heads at the trading losses they had incurred. This sell off was likely triggered by the increase in margin requirements for futures contracts, but the stunning price decline extended to all vehicles like exchange traded funds use to trade the glimmering metal.

The volatility in silver is something that a lot of people can’t handle. When I first invested in silver, I was focused on hour-to-hour and day-to-day movements.  As such, the volatility in silver was the cause of a ton of stress, even if I traded the moves well. Now, with a little more experience, I am … Continue reading

By Murray Dawes 05/12/11 Last night I lay back on my couch and had a couple of glasses of red, while reading an article from 1980 about the Hunt brothers and the events that surrounded the last spike in Silver to $50. I found the article while surfing the web for financial news so I … Continue reading

And another advocate for the only logical outcome out of the disastrous monetary and fiscal catastrophe the US finds itself in emerges in the face of billionaire, and open administration critic, Steve Forbes. From Human Events: “A return to the gold standard by the United States within the next five years now seems likely, because … Continue reading

While the ebb and flow is becoming more violent in gold and silver, its increasing amplitude does not alter the secular trend. A parabolic or extended run, like clown at a formal business convention, will be obvious. The acceleration from the primary trend will reveal itself through a statistical ‘spike’. All the chatter about an … Continue reading

Silver was one of the top priorities for many of precious metal traders until last week. However, silver market witnessed a dramatic turbulence in recent days.

By Addison Wiggin 05/06/11 Baltimore, Maryland – Today, traders are celebrating that the U.S. economy added the most jobs in nearly a year. Or so they’re led to believe. Let’s examine the payroll data first: The economy supposedly added 244,000 jobs in April. The private sector added 268,000 jobs; government cut 24,000 However, 175,000 of … Continue reading

Yesterday, silver experienced its biggest one-day dollar drop in 3 decades. In recent weeks, I’ve been warning that the downside risks in silver were huge, that silver rose too far, too fast, and that there was a frenzy developing in silver. I publicly stated I was lightening up above $46 dollars and that a minimum … Continue reading

If you had followed the news in the past few days you would have noticed the obsession with equating a normal drop in Commodities with a crash or a major market top. Here is just a sample of what I’m talking about. Silver Enters Bear Market GaveKal’s Five Reasons Commodities are Suddenly Tanking Commodity Bubble … Continue reading

The past few weeks we have been seeing the US Dollar slide to new lows at an increasing rate. The strong devaluation of the dollar has sent precious metals like silver and gold rocketing higher out of control sending them parabolic!
During the past 6 weeks both silver and gold have been rising in a parabolic formation.