Pirocco
Well-Known Member
Demand and supply are not like two independent parameters.
Suppose you are a supplier. Example a recycler.
You have a certain production, that gives you profit at todays price.
Suppose you expect demand and thus price to increase, thus more customers want to buy your silver. What you gonna do: invest, so that you can produce more and sell more at the higher price. What just happened? The demand affected the supply.
Take for ex the period ahead of 2007. The SI data shows that mine and recyclers output was less than demand. Yet, all demand was met (rather normal since nobody is gonna produce silver if he doesnt find the customers for it). How did this come? Because there was an additional supply from people that previously 'invested' / stacked silver, people that sold.
Since 2007, the opposite became true. Miners and recyclers produced more, and the surplus production was 'consumed' by investment/stackers demand. See how miners/recyclers foresaw the higher silver demand to come?
Suppose you are a supplier. Example a recycler.
You have a certain production, that gives you profit at todays price.
Suppose you expect demand and thus price to increase, thus more customers want to buy your silver. What you gonna do: invest, so that you can produce more and sell more at the higher price. What just happened? The demand affected the supply.
Take for ex the period ahead of 2007. The SI data shows that mine and recyclers output was less than demand. Yet, all demand was met (rather normal since nobody is gonna produce silver if he doesnt find the customers for it). How did this come? Because there was an additional supply from people that previously 'invested' / stacked silver, people that sold.
Since 2007, the opposite became true. Miners and recyclers produced more, and the surplus production was 'consumed' by investment/stackers demand. See how miners/recyclers foresaw the higher silver demand to come?