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Personally i think its still another 'nut job' article. But its good, because it keeps peoples eyes off the ball. Price volatility is high because of the recent rapid rise in silver prices. Once the head and shoulders pattern formed off a parabolic upwards move, silver became an easy tarket to...

i've got my physical holdings locked away, but i have been guilty of shorting the market, started on silver and will start on gold soon. Easy money with so many weak hands being shaken.

Thanks for the link, i have saved it. I need to go through this article in more detail when i'm not so sleeping. but i think the crust of what you are looking for is the degree to which the market goes into backwardisation or contago.

Some people might be doing this for fun. I am doing it to protect my family's future. Why would i be in paper short term? just because prices dropped a bit, i am not shaken out of my positions (and i mentioned this on SS, april holiday volume light, if things go back down nothing to worry...

So do you really care if they have been trying to hold down silver prices? Doesn't that make it easier to buy more silver with that same fiat money? The prices went down in 2008 because of the GFC. Alot of speculation exists in PM as well (just look at all the posts in this forum whether to...

Some interesting posts have emerged firstly to support market supression to the downside, now potentially to the upside. In my opinion, this ignores a fundamental rule of capitalism: to generate a profit. Speculation occurs because of belief in the profit motive. Excessive speculative shorts...

Exactly, the meek will never inherit the earth. Its not the fact that some might decide to take some profit off the table. Its the fact that some people have a strategy in place, as soon as a bit of turbulence occurs, they drop their strategy.

this is different, this could be based on stock positions. A person opperating a silver trading business and a person investing in silver have to have very different mindsets. Imagine walking into your local 7-11 store and there is no stock to purchase, when you ask why, the guy behind the...

good write up

i mean this in a nice way, but balls have nothing to do with it. They can shrivel very quickly. Whats needed in my opinion are just two things (a) a clear personal reason for being in PM. Is it a trading opportunity or a long term investing/wealth sustaining opportunity. (b) conviction of...

easy i have one simple answer. Look at the 20 year holding of physical silver, then look at the increase in industry use of silver over the last 3 years (notice the big drop in 2009 which corresponded with the GFC). Now here is the tatsloto ticket, look at the changing composition of industry...

man there is far too much testosterone in some of these posts. Let me ask you, is the correctness in your decision based just upon the movement in prices over a few low volume days in silver. What happens if silver crashed in the short term to $20. Unless we are trading very short term to...

Firstly the 'short term' has been based on a period of very low liquidity (volume). So personally i will ignore this. Secondly to ignore the above i would also ignore the price points reached during that period of low liquidity. If i was to make a decision, i would wait until markets resume...

I wonder how many people in the main stream investment community have been 'screaming' a top on gold over the last several years. My solution to this whole issue, own both silver and gold. Buy slowly into each that way i have some diversification. If silver does come back, remember, how...

he makes a good call about CGT from trading silver on a short term basis. Sure its ok if we are talking about squidly amounts of money. But if the amount of money is bigger, then it becomes easier for the ATO to track it.

haha exactly, so why do i need to worry about looking elsewhere to invest. Its not up to me, i am not the guy in charge. All i can do is look after my own affairs.

For those that really know their stuff about mining shares, sure include PM mining shares. But i prefer the straight PM. Commodities are the current investable cycle so why would i be elsewhere. I dont know boo about soft commodities, so i limit myself to PM. When the US gets its debt under...

theres cash and then theres cash. If we are talking some extra cash held on the sidelines, then yes i TOTALLY agree with you. If we are talking about transferring all of our wealth into cash to take advantage of some future possible opportunity, then no i dont agree at all.

the problem is we dont the know interrelationship between each PM and the movement in the AU$/US$. Personally given the recent run up in silver i would say that the relative movement in silver would be greater than that in gold. But someone holding cash will still face one overriding obsticle...

well done, somebody else is thinking about the interrelationship between different markets. (However i would add that the net effect on silver could be effected, the net effect on gold much less so)