Ben Sets Silver On Course To Climb

Readers of this website have been advised on numerous occasions that the silver market is highly volatile and should only be played with the utmost caution. In the main, the silver price follows the price of gold and not infrequently, the move in percentage terms is two or three times greater than the yellow metal. [...]

Is Silver Ready to Ratchet Up Gains?

Looking for a short term profit?Silver has channelled for the last month, is it now ready to ratchet up gains to its last high of $50.00 in the next four weeks?

Why Silver Has Us In Two Minds

Silver has certainly lived up to its reputation for volatility this week. Climbing to a high of just off $41.00 an oz to a low of $38.35 an oz in just three days has left this writer in more than two minds. The announcement yesterday of the latest disaster delaying fudge up tactic by Europeans [...]

Selling Our Silver? No Way !!

What a stampede out of silver we have seen since it nearly broke the $50.00 an oz. mark on two occasions, 24th of April then again on the 28th. Talk about a double top being a bearish indicator! For once we have to agree with the statistical gurus, this is a signal that should not, [...]

Silver Bulls Routed. No Way!

With what seems like great glee, a number of the worlds’ financial media reported the 11% drop in the price of silver when the Asian markets opened for business this Monday morning. Among them were Bloomberg, The Los Angeles Times, Wall St. Journal, Reuters, and The Economic Times of India. Slides, plunges, bubbles, bulls routed [...]

Can the Bull Run in Silver be Sustained?

Whether Silver is in a bubble is a more complicated issue to resolve than the same question concerning gold which we addressed in our previous article. Historically, or at least until the advent of sophisticated stock markets in the nineteenth, twentieth and so far twenty first centuries, silver has mainly stayed in lock step with gold.

How to Trade when Silver Channels

It seems timely to discuss a trading activity when our favoured investment vehicles, silver and gold, may lose the momentum that has propelled them sky bound for so long. Historically, May and June have not been months when either metal has shown much volatility. The summer holiday period follows when many traders pack their bags [...]

Consider Silver Bags As An Investment

As an investment vehicle “silver bags” can be purchased for the value of the silver they contain plus a low premium over the ´spot´ silver price.

The Prospects For Conductive Silver

A new report produced by NanoMarkets entitled “Silver powders and inks for printable electronics” forecasts that the market for conductive silver  inks used in emerging technological applications will grow from US$176 million in 2007 to US$1.2 billion by 2014.

Silver Was Our Best Bet

Silver was our bet for outperforming gold, platinum and other PGMs after the expected profit taking at the end of last week turned out not to be as severe as we thought.