The futures market position, reflecting the price risk that the 'pro's' think there is, didn't drop big time with the recent price drop, which gives reason for lower, so I decided to wait swap my last saved euro's to silver.
25/03/2014 31755 $19.96
18/03/2014 35900 $20.84
11/03/2014 37634 $21.32
04/03/2014 39769 $21.14
25/02/2014 38985 $21.81
18/02/2014 32853 $21.62
The 2008 bottom position was 20000.
In 2012 and 2013 we saw decade-low positions, the 2013 was even the lowest in all the data I have avail. So it's not "that" likely to return. But the 20000 is quite "common" so reasonable to wait for.
The unknown element are the silver ETF's. These didn't sell big time alike their gold equivalents did last year. It's a rather weird gold-silver market difference. Because hard to find an explanation for. And yet, despite they didn't sell their shares, the silver price dropped with golds.
As of recently, another weird element popped up with the biggest, IShares.
I check
http://us.ishares.com/product_info/fund/overview/SLV.htm every day (a very occasional miss is possible), so all lacking dates = no change.
This is all data I have avail, as to make clear the weird element:
2012/04/12 308,370,469.900
2012/05/07 308,191,672.700
2012/05/11 304,309,376.700
2012/05/14 305,959,277.700
2012/05/17 309,258,814.500
2012/05/18 310,229,256.500
2012/05/25 310,714,438.500
2012/05/30 310,035,157.500
2012/06/04 309,897,800.500
2012/06/05 310,867,996.500
2012/06/07 310.714.438,500
2012/06/13 311,741,101.700
2012/06/22 317,512,767.500
2012/06/29 315,767,012.300
2012/07/03 311,271,605.500
2012/07/12 312,823,227.900
2012/07/13 311,756,579.900
2012/07/23 312,144,410.300
2012/07/25 309,914,477.500
2012/08/01 312.144.209,700
2012/08/02 313.759.604,400
2012/08/06 313.226.434,400
2012/08/15 312.935.630,400
2012/08/22 314.583.226,200
2012/08/23 315.746.223,000
2012/08/24 314,292,483.000
2012/08/30 312,548,119.400
2012/08/31 310,949,150.600
2012/09/04 310,028,547.400
2012/09/05 312,962,655.500
2012/09/10 315,191,323.300
2012/09/12 314,803,748.100
2012/09/13 314,077,053.600
2012/09/18 316,402,423.200
2012/09/20 319,599,599.800
2012/09/24 322,021,629.800
2012/09/26 322,990,383.800
2012/09/28 319,115,479.800
2012/10/01 319,551,403.800
2012/10/02 318,941,345.000
2012/10/11 318,118,072.400
2012/10/15 317,827,514.000
2012/10/17 317,052,725.200
2012/10/18 317,924,337.400
2012/10/23 318,892,721.400
2012/10/24 318,069,610.300
2012/10/25 319,037,966.300
2012/11/01 319,812,580.700
2012/11/02 319,675,305.300
2012/11/05 320,546,726.700
2012/11/06 320,934,008.300
2012/11/08 322,483,099.500
2012/11/09 323,935,348.500
2012/11/12 323,306,047.100
2012/11/13 322,483,146.800
2012/11/15 321,031,011.800
2012/11/16 319,578,894.800
2012/11/19 318,126,801.800
2012/11/20 317,642,788.800
2012/11/22 315,658,356.000
2012/11/28 315,174,390.000
2012/11/29 314,448,453.000
2012/11/30 313,722,526.500
2012/12/04 314,756,320.700
2012/12/05 316,014,502.300
2012/12/13 317,369,318.700
2012/12/20 318,143,414.700
2012/12/21 322,981,444.700
2012/12/31 324,239,127.100
2013/01/03 324,099,581.900
2013/01/04 323,470,757.600
2013/01/07 325,115,347.800
2013/01/10 325,792,488.600
2013/01/15 326,759,768.600
2013/01/16 345,137,860.600
2013/01/22 343,687,009.600
2013/01/24 337,497,108.800
2013/01/25 336,578,312.500
2013/01/28 335,756,245.200
2013/01/31 333,677,044.700
2013/02/02 335,175,993.900
2013/02/04 335,036,944.900
2013/02/07 335,858,876.200
2013/02/08 337,406,018.600
2013/02/15 338,276,212.400
2013/02/20 338,856,290.000
2013/02/21 340,886,515.400
2013/02/27 341,369,860.400
2013/02/28 342,046,537.800
2013/03/01 342,433,205.000
2013/03/04 342,292,222.100
2013/03/12 344,128,591.100
2013/03/15 345,095,059.100
2013/03/19 340,262,979.100
2013/03/21 341,954,161.600
2013/03/22 343,645,323.100
2013/03/27 344,128,478.100
2013/04/03 343,302,253.400
2013/04/05 337,505,197.400
2013/04/15 336,007,785.800
2013/04/23 331,757,790.600
2013/04/25 333,303,182.600
2013/04/26 334,124,167.000
2013/04/29 334,607,098.000
2013/04/30 336,055,837.000
2013/05/02 335,376,960.800
2013/05/09 335,666,675.000
2013/05/15 334,121,683.000
2013/05/16 331,852,518.300
2013/05/17 329,631,679.700
2013/05/20 327,893,650.100
2013/05/22 322,245,369.800
2013/05/29 321,279,945.800
2013/06/04 321,135,274.700
2013/06/11 321,473,111.500
2013/06/20 320,990,547.500
2013/06/21 323,885,835.500
2013/06/25 317,709,349.100
2013/06/26 317,998,855.700
2013/06/27 318,481,348.700
2013/07/03 320,267,163.300
2013/07/05 323,161,899.300
2013/07/08 322,631,213.100
2013/07/12 327,455,323.100
2013/07/16 328,227,127.900
2013/07/18 330,638,952.900
2013/07/24 335,269,311.300
2013/07/26 334,979,923.500
2013/08/01 334,401,194.700
2013/08/02 334,262,543.500
2013/08/13 336,094,888.300
2013/08/15 338,409,381.100
2013/08/21 339,373,701.100
2013/08/28 340,820,040.100
2013/08/30 338,795,220.100
2013/09/04 338,666,855.900
2013/09/11 339,630,913.900
2013/09/13 337,510,087.500
2013/09/19 340,883,814.500
2013/09/24 341,751,284.900
2013/10/03 341,606,142.200
2013/10/07 339,678,718.200
2013/10/11 337,751,450.200
2013/10/16 334,089,777.800
2013/10/23 335,727,679.200
2013/10/31 337,654,563.200
2013/11/04 337,510,405.700
2013/11/13 335,776,562.900
2013/11/18 334,524,434.500
2013/11/22 333,079,850.500
2013/11/25 332,116,808.500
2013/11/29 331,442,709.900
2013/11/03 331,297,122.100
2013/12/10 328,216,037.300
2013/12/17 326,001,625.500
2013/12/24 321,814,189.100
2013/12/30 320,177,792.900
2014/01/03 318,597,649.500
2014/01/10 320,041,282.500
2014/01/14 318,116,486.500
2014/01/17 322,446,926.500
2014/01/31 324,563,599.300
2014/02/05 324,422,849.100
2014/02/07 322,979,783.100
2014/02/12 324,422,753.100
2014/02/14 322,498,869.100
2014/02/18 326,346,613.100
2014/02/20 324,134,298.300
2014/02/24 326,635,134.700
2014/02/26 328,077,858.700
2014/03/03 326,923,758.700
2014/03/05 326,803,953.400
Notice the frequency of the updates as of lately (2014/03). We saw quite some price change over that period, yet since 2014/03/05 no updates. It's hard to believe that Ishares' shareholders on a net total basis ceased to buy/sell shares. But if that wasn't true, then it must imply that Ishares fund management ceased to update their stock, which in turn would mean that they stopped to let the Exchange Traded Fund track the silver price, or in other words: the ETF share value was discoupled from the silver price, rendering them to separate markets where the Fund shareholders only able to drain off eachother in the zero-sum market fashion.