The Return of the Silver Bullet

We've been noting the bullish daily pattern in silver/SLV that completed during August. It is the shaded thing on the chart. We also noted in NFTRH 462 that silver has…

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Gold & Silver CoT and Their Daily Chart Close

An interesting week, folks. Gold's Commitments of Traders took on more bullish speculators and corresponding commercial net shorts. The little guy shorted, which should be a tiny little positive for…

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A Disclosure

After a brief back and forth with Mark at IKN last week and a quick look at the IKN Weekly's opening I'd like to make a disclosure on something. While…

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Law 101 Meets Psych 101

Lawyers and Psychologists Steve Saville has a post out called Don't Think Like a Lawyer. In the post he notes the following... "The job of a judge or juror is…

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Short Silver Because…

I took a short on silver on the big pop this morning because a) the implications of weak CPI and Retail sales favor gold over silver, but silver popped harder…

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Gold on the Other Hand…

Just a simple view of the GLD daily chart.  If the party in stocks continues aggressively, this is likely to fail the support at the convergence of the moving averages…

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Silver Giving Way?

It is my only short position now, having taken losses on a couple market shorts (partially hedging longs) and a gain on crude oil (just because I was straight out…

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Puts on Silver (SLV)

I don't often short the precious metals other than for hedging purposes, but this time I am taking a kick at the can and buying puts against SLV, just because…

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SIL-SLV & GDX-GLD Do Not Inspire

Silver miners vs. the metal they dig out of the ground are not doing well at all. Gold miners vs. the metal they dig out of the ground have a…

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