Hi
@Feduptryingnames, welcome.
From a TA perspective you can keep an eye on these:
http://www.stockta.com/cgi-bin/analysis.pl?symb=GOLD
and
http://www.stockta.com/cgi-bin/analysis.pl?symb=XAGUSD&cobrand=&mode=stock
Their analysis can jump around a bit from day-to-day probably because it's just an algorithm but it may help you. Basically when the moving averages are below the candlesticks it's likely that prices will continue to rise, until they don't. Then the candlesticks will be intersected or below the moving averages. I'd also do a search on Youtube for a guy called "Between the lines finance". He does gold and macro charts discussion, and has his own Patreon page where he delves into gold stocks etc in more detail, he doesn't touch silver much though.
As far as fundamentals go ignore the gold bulls like Maloney, Schiff etc and places like Zero Hedge.Tread with caution on Silver Stackers

You'll need to learn about economics and finance as well if you don't already, on youtube is Raoul Pal and his RealVision team (which Nugget's News also covers a bit), he likes gold and is pretty switched on but be aware that the main focus of the free stuff is mainly just to advertise financial advisers, though having said that it's still good shit. And see if you can locate anything free by 13D, free is way cheaper than paying USD15000/year to be a subscriber of theirs. Basically if you can find info from market analysts who also know a bit about PMs then that's the type of information that may help you in what you're after. Graeme Newing is another who makes passing comments on gold though he tends to focus on TA a bit more than fundamentals, but read it together with his thoughts on currencies. His best bit of sdvice is that mainstream market analysts don't understand the fundamentals of gold and silver, so they discount its value. The intelligent debate on silver is fairly absent when compared to gold from my experience. For economics do some reading on the Austrian School in order to learn about free-markets etc, and MMT in order to learn about the mess we live with now. Fee.org, mises.org and cato.org are good resources for Austrian economics, and I like Bill Mitchell's blog about MMT. Don't read The Guardian.
As far as your buying strategy goes the unallocated programs are super handy. Trade pretty much instantly without having to store and handle physical. The other choice is digital products like Ainslie's Gold/Silver Standard or even ETFs on the ASX. The potential upside of ETFs and shares can be multiples of any rise in spot price.
And if anyone tries to convince you to buy silver instead of gold based upon such things as comparing above ground resources between the two PMs or passing comments about silver's long historical use as a currency, just ignore them too. That's pre-school stuff.
Good luck. I hope you don't lose too much $$ as you learn.
