Whenever I see someone saying spot may/could drop by a 1 or 2 dollars, I think of this old proverb: Don't miss the forest for the trees
Confucius say...only the Cartel knows where silver will bottom. Confucius also say...man who has a few lumps of precious metal can wait. Confucius also say...there will always be bargains.
I can tell what I bought, because they aren't there anymore. 2008 1oz gold lunar mice and a 2010 1oz gold lunar tiger.
Depending on what silver product you buy and how much, 1 or 2 dollars can mean as much as tens or hundreds of extra ounces that you paid for with nothing but patience only! What stacker in her/his right mind doesn't like tens or hundreds of ounces of silver for free??? It's exactly what the smart money does...that 8% or 9% cost reduction is not nothing. I think that blood will have to flow in the streets (hopefully only figuratively and not literally) before we see any meaningful bull trend materialize though of course there will be the usual volatility. The way I see it, only the worst sort of permabull (who is smart and knows better) who has a vested personal self-interest would want people to buy silver all the time...when silver's on the way up and when it's on the way down for many years to come. Only that type of permabull would not throw out advice to newbies to suggest to them that under the type of conditions that we've seen for the past 3 years and going forward for some time likely, that it may be in the newbies own best interest to pause and take a smell of the reality around them and not fall for the fear baiting that we are subjected to by the type of permabull who is always warning that silver is indispensable and irreplaceable, or that it's money with no counter-party risk, or that it will shoot to da moon tomorrow and that it's always the best time to buy silver at every given moment, or blah, blah, blah. If a stacker is buying silver ounces as a way to store as much wealth as possible for some future time (let's say for 5 or more years), then it doesn't make sense at all that they should buy silver at every single moment if the writing on the wall is telling us that very likely, we will see further consolidation in the price. I'm reminded of the same permabull-shit rhetoric I was subjected to for months at the end of 2012 and for all of 2013 and into 2014....that you have to buy silver at $38, $34, $30, $26, $22, yadda, yadda, yadda an ounce because right now is always the best time and silver could shoot to da moon tomorrow. That dishonest fear baiting is destructive and harmful to the stacker community for obvious reasons. .
What choice of words will you have, when the price sinks to $15 and below, then you back your Kenworth up , all happy and content to be fourth in the queue, and then, sorry, we're all sold out mate ! But, around the corner, there's an inside deal going for only $21.50. Get it while you can, or suck eggs !
All Guess work lol If any of you knew what was going to happen you would just do what you had to do lol
That won't happen to stackers who are paying attention. There's plenty, plenty, plenty of surplus silver right now and for the foreseeable future. So I am good with waiting to get my free ounces. Heck, if you are so sure that there will be no silver for the likes of me in the months to come, then just take out some massive loans now and buy as much silver at the current price as you can. Afterall, if you are right, it would be easy for you to make profit hand over fist in the very near term because the silver supply will allegedly be all gone when the bearish hoards come rushing in to buy and there's none left because only the smart people like you who purchased right now got the remaining silver in the world. Then you step in at just the right time to sell this very scarce metal called silver for many, many times what you paid for it and you make so much profit that you can easily pay back the loans and interest on those loans and have plenty of extra cash to spend as you please. Sounds like paradise, man...go for it. :/ .
Some form of physical silver...namely bullion. I didn't mean to imply that $14 USD is the blood in the streets, just that there will have to be blood in the streets before we see a resumption to a the type of bull trend most stackers yearn for / are eagerly hoping to see. How will that blood on the streets play out? Panic selling of silver by investors and some miners going belly up....that's my thinking on what blood in the streets may mean in this context. The reason I believe lower prices are on their way is because by far and away the best arguments I've seen by those smart people who are writing / talking outlooks in silver/gold prices are all pointing to further consolidation (short to medium term) in the price. To put it another way, those who are asserting that we've hit the bottom are generally the same one's who've been saying that we hit bottom at $45, $40, $36, $32, $28, $22, etc, etc, etc an ounce using generally the same arguments all along the way. .
Heck fellas, I hope we get 0.00 silver, makes no difference to me. Bring it on I say. Of course, I'm sure there will be some who will be very upset at 0 paper silver. For me, it matters not. I still see kooks and lunars selling at a premium. Sure the blobs might take a hit. But between my many kooks, lunars and collectibles, I'm just fine, thank you very much. Please bring on the 0.00 silver and gold, I really wont mind. And if you're a newbie collecting blobs, maybe wait for 5.00 before backing up the truck, in the hopes it goes to 10.00 for you to unload, or to zero, so you can dollar cost average. Because at 5 or 10, if those kooks, lunars, and pandas follow the price of spot, they will be sucked up by a vaccum cleaner, and I'll be one of the folks doing the sucking...and they'll be ZERO supply left, because there is a limited mintage...now of course there are the gazillion eagles, maples and philharmonics you can buy...or perhaps you can pre order 2016 kooks and lunars? Oh, and I'll pass on the eagles, maples, and phils, but I may have no choice to go with that stuff when spot goes to 0.00. Because for sure all the premium stuff will be bye, bye for all of 2015.
^^ Very funny. Heck there may come a time for your dreams to come true, but it may be in paper form...and so you'll have to make a paper machet. hehehe.
Whats different about the future now in terms of cycles is there wasn't any real partnership to rival the US, now there is. China and Russia's closer ties (half a trillion dollar gas deal) , more restrictions in place on the financial system will slow down growth and yields, the massive amounts of fiat debt accumulated by countries such as the US with 20 trillion alone, and also the big one the new BRICS bank with members such as Russia China and South Africa. They will be working to topple the dollar over the next few decades, their future depends on it they can't have the US hog all the growth if their own countries are to prosper. Russia and China have a hell of a lot of gold, and South Africa has half of the worlds gold underground supply..
Apart from crime, I don't recall that ever happening in our lifetime? So odds are borderline zero. Apart from crime, and a recent change in inactive bank accounts: http://www.news.com.au/finance/busi...ld-bank-accounts/story-fnkjidjt-1226949101984 I don't recall that ever happening in our lifetime? So odds are borderline zero. The only thing on your list that is remotely likely, and actually quite likely in some form given the track record of crashes/corrections happening with regularity, and the fact that we are at various peaks. Same, but to a lesser extent with the housing bubble.
Oh, google cyprus bank bail in. also Brisbane G20 approves bail in strategy for all! these two events never happened before in our lifetime, so your argument "I don't recall" is a bit weak in that regards.
If 2 miners have tossed in the towel and a few stackers have sold all their silver, then it seems the first drops of blood have begun to fall. There needs to be more...despair with the metals market has not been reached yet though there seems to be quite a bit of worry going on from what I've been reading / hearing. We saw $15+ USD silver recently...I'm not claiming that isn't a very low level...it is precariously low and if I had the same funds that I had when I blew most of my cash on silver at around $19 when all the chatter was that this was definitely the true bottom, I would be considering buying at $15+ USD...but probably not pulled the trigger. $14 is a resistance level that I think will be a tough one to drop under. But $14 won't happen in a vacuum. I think $14 will see more miners call it quits and more paper metals investors getting hosed thinking that the prices can only go up from this point forward. Also, at that level the stock and securities market will probably be approaching their upper threshhold all the while drawing in investors to the thrill of riding this big paper rocketship that we can see blasting away new record highs every day. That rocketship awes the people and many get overly euphoric as they can see the moon getting closer; alas, the rocketship will unexpectedly flutter and those who weren't previously paying close attention to the fuel gauge will see the needle pointing at "EMPTY" but it will be too late for most to get off the fuelless paper rocketship. You know the rest of that story...it falls in a fiery crash (or if not a full blown crash, a "crisis"). It's rue, no one knows for certain what the specific inflection levels will be nor the timing but most of us believe in what we do because that's what makes most sense to us. It's not that people will become bearish at $14, but a tipping point may be reached at around that level...driven by loss of optimism turning to despair....in other words sentiment will have reached a low point if and when we see $14 due to numerous factors not just in the metals market since the metals prices are not moving in a vacuum. I've no problem admitting that I was wrong if I am. I am patiently waiting to see where and when the turn-around happens. .
I was talking about Australia. Everyone likes to trot out Cyprus, but Cyprus isn't Australia. But at least Cyprus was recent. When it comes to the security of safe deposit boxes for example, people are still citing the 80 year old US thing, that was before anyone on this forum was even born, I'm sure, probably twice the average age of the average stacker
And why exactly did they toss in the towel? How many mining companies fail each year due to natural attrition or poor management, or just plain bad luck, I wonder?
But do those people who do "toss in the towel" typically post about it on a forum? Or do they just quietly sell their stack/collection to their LCS or something & take whatever they can get, and slip away into the night? Also, what about those who have given up, but do *not* sell what they own, but simply hold onto what they have, tucked away somewhere, and have vowed to themselves to never buy again -- do they qualify? And do you think they publicly post about it? Methinks there are quite a few out there, who probably have never visited this forum to begin with, who have already thrown in the towel. Just because you don't hear about it, doesn't mean that it hasn't been happening.
It would be nice to hear from people "in the trade" if they have a way of measuring the kind of sentiment that Gatito Bandito is talking about. Is it simply indicated by decreasing demand? Or if not in total demand, then by a shift in the type of purchaser?
Great Post. However, I swear I read similar posts when silver was $19, and that i just wasn't going to drop much more, but had a lot of upside. Wouldn't the same be said if it drops through $14. ... with people saying $12 is a resistance that will be tough. I have absolutely no idea if we will be at $17 US next week or $15. Likely somewhere in-between if I had to random guess.
