errol43 said:
Has nun of de cru desearted as de SS heds to de S??
We're all in this together tonight!
Some good news crew! Our traditional shorting enemies are now starting to take the LONG side of silver trades, leaving only weak-handed speculators to take the short 'side' of the trade!
It's a little bit like this:
JPM: "I'm shorting silver!"
SPECULATORS: "Idiots!"
JPM: "I'm making a packet!"
SPECULATORS: "Morons!"
JPM: "Look! The silver price has dropped for eight straight months!"
SPECULATORS: "Well... OK... We'll join you then."
SPECULATORS: "We're shorting silver now!"
JPM: "Idiots!!"
Here's how Ted Butler describes this new development:
Ted Butler said:
"The real interesting feature of this current report was who the silver sellers were in the reporting week, since the "raptors" and the "big 4" were the standout buyers.
The sellers were the speculators, of course, but the spec selling was mostly new tech fund short selling, rather than the long liquidation that it had been up until this week.
In other words, the commercials were successful in luring new speculative short sellers into silver.
Normally this is a highly bullish development, as tech fund speculators on the short side of silver are prone to run quickly if prices start to rise.
If the silver COT market structure was spectacularly bullish before the report, as I have been proclaiming, it is much more bullish now.
I know that the silver price action stinks, but it stinks for the sole reason of tricking speculators into selling so that the commercials can buy.
If the silver market was already locked and loaded to the upside before this report; new weapons have now been added to the arsenal for higher prices."
It's important to remember that although JPM want to suppress the price of silver they are NOT stupidly "anti-silver".
Why would anybody in their right mind be 'against' rare precious metals which have been trusted by mankind for thousands of years? In fact, the (very) clever folk at JPM are just as keen as we are to accumulate the physical metals, and merely use their potent market power to 'discourage' competing investors by inducing them think that precious metals being "on sale" is somehow a bad sign.
Consider this: If a $50,000 Mercedes dropped to $26,000 over an eight month period would you think "Great, Mercs are getting cheaper! I can finally get myself one!" or would you think "Gaaah! I'm never going to buy a Merc they obviously aren't very valuable cars; I'm never going near them!"
Notice how 'the price' can potentially interact with your 'perception' of the vehicle in different ways. If you firmly consider Mercs to be great cars then the price drop is a real bonus but if you are not convinced of their real 'intrinsic' value then the lower price might convince you they were somehow never 'worth' their original price and so the 'bargain' would be overlooked.
In silver's case, the price of the vehicle is certainly down to the $26,000 mark, but the real value of the vehicle is probably closer to something like this...
JPM's price manipulation is working very well with people who do not recognize the true intrinsic value of silver. Sentiment is now close to an all-time low. Many people who paid a $50,000 price for a Mercedes now feel they have been sold a rusting Barina Spark! They will suffer anguished regrets until the price recovers again as it must, and indeed will.
Those who can see the Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder parked in their stacks will patiently wait until the bears have worried themselves to exhaustion, then simply watch as the price recovers quickly and strongly and reveals to the bears what they failed to see for themselves.
As John Embry stated in today's KWN:
"What they have done to silver is astounding... It amazes me the degree of human stupidity here, that people are parting company with the one thing that is going to save them in the future."
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldn...&_Silver_Tight_Because_of_Eastern_Buying.html
SPOT USD $28.40 - and holding but only just!