The question remains: What will happen if the POS and the Dollar Index converge?
That would be a death cross IMHO and would signal the end of the major bull run, of course, inversely the dollar would then start soaring.
Nothing fundamental has changed about the silver market apart from the speculative fever. I read stories about shortages, but if I go back to 2008 I saw stories about peak oil and how oil was going to rage to $200+ a barrel.
I suppose it could hit $50/oz within a couple of weeks, but at this stage I'd be selling out of the silver, buying oversold USD, waiting for the correction to get to a healthy level (say 20%) then buy back in with relatively overvalued USD. I have a feeling the bull still might have some steam in him before he runs out of breath for this run-up.
It isn't much different to the oil run-up in 2008, so I am still waiting for prices to come down to earth before buying again. I'm convinced this is not the BIG run-up that Marc Faber was talking about. Certainly a big run up in nominal terms, but the USD hasn't weakened as much as it did in 2008. If the USD was at 2008 levels I'd suggest silver would be overbought and the USD oversold.
If the USD index and silver hit 65 at the same time, all bets are off, and we will likely see silver do an "Oil 2008 crash" thing and fall off a cliff. I honestly can't see how this bull could possibly double up again. While it is technically possible, it isn't fundamentally.
Silver is up because of the RISK ON trade, and once the speculators turn the table on the one-sided trade we should expect a big drop. They did this to oil in 2008 in spite of the fact that peak oil articles were doing the rounds ad nauseum. I guess the speculators needed someone to offload their commodity trades on to. Up past a certain point those who bought at the height of the fever were inevitably crushed.
While I would like to buy more Ag now, and considering it's past performance, my crystal ball is a bit cloudy and I wonder if it may be a dangerous proposition to go long on Ag right now. I just don't want to get up in the storm when the poo poo hits the fan. I think going long USD makes more sense no, at least in the intermediate (12-24 months) term.
Let's just say though, that if silver goes back down to $10/oz during the next deflationary leg (which I'm assured will be the big one), I won't be hesitating for a second to take advantage of the bargains.