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Silver at Multi-Month High

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Publié le 11 septembre 2012
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SUIVRE : Precious Metals
Rubrique : Opinions et Analyses

 

 

 

 

The price of silver reached a 5-month high this past week as investor interest seems to have been rekindled in both gold and silver as belief in financial markets increases that the latest round of monetary easing from the Federal Reserve - QE3 - will soon be on its way. Many investors had largely stayed away from silver in recent months after some had got caught up in its volatility. Silver had touched a 30-year high in April 2011 before plunging 35 percent in a few short weeks.


Now the volatility is back - but on the upside - as prices have climbed more than 20 percent in less than a month. The gains have outpaced that of gold which rose roughly 10 percent during the same time frame. Importantly for investors, the ratio between the two precious metals has moved about 10 percent in silver's favor since mid-August. This is the first time silver has outperformed gold since the start of 2012.


For non-futures investors, the two precious metals can easily be tracked through the use of exchange traded funds (ETFs). The most liquid ETFs for the two precious metals are the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE Arca: SLV) and the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE Arca: GLD) respectively.






You can take a look at my long term outlook analysis from last week here: http://www.thetechnicaltraders.com/gold-stand...-the-back-door/


Some may wonder why has silver outperformed gold in the past several weeks? The answer goes deeper than just confidence that QE3 is coming soon, but it is still rather a simple one. The sharp rally in silver was fueled largely by short-covering. That is, some investors (hedge funds, etc.) had made rather large bets that silver would continue falling and were caught off-guard by its recent rise. According to data from the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the silver market during the week of August 27-31 saw the largest amount of short-covering since May 2011. At the same time. Bloomberg reported that hedge funds were the least bullish on silver in almost four years.


It is unknown for how long silver will outperform gold. But even some long-term fundamental investors such as legendary commodities investor Jim Rogers has said that he believes silver right now is a better investment than gold. He points to the fact that historically gold has been worth about 12 to 15 times what silver is worth, but that recently it has been worth roughly 50 times silver's value. Silver is also the only major commodity not to have reached a new all-time high in the decade-long commodity bull market and is still cheaper than it was 32 years ago.


So it may be worth a look. But since silver is so volatile, wait for a downward spike before initiating or adding to a long position.


Chris Vermeulen


Editor, the Gold and Oil Guy


 

 

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Good article. Due to volatility of silver it is seldom prudent to wait for dips on the contrary ride the trend. The important issues of economics, silver's use in industry, the fact that it is the only commodity trading far below its historical highs, silver's disposition vis a vis gold in terms of GSR, that it follows gold which is more likely to go up than down all are all positive trends favouring buying silver even at today's rates.
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Good article. Due to volatility of silver it is seldom prudent to wait for dips on the contrary ride the trend. The important issues of economics, silver's use in industry, the fact that it is the only commodity trading far below its historical highs, si  Lire la suite
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