Gold and Copper Acting Well- Silver Next?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:23 am
Gold has gotten lots of press about getting close to the $1,800 barrier for the first time in years. Now copper comes along and, in spite of the recession, is up 21% for the quarter (per Kitco), the best quarter since September, 2010.
Remember what happened around that same time? Yes indeed, that is when silver started a run from the teens to $49+ in Spring, 2011. Will history repeat? Who knows. Is silver due for a run? IMHO- yes. This could be fun to watch. Also, a very long-term chart shows a double top in silver with the tops near $50ish in 1980 and 2011. If we bust through $50 decisively this time, the move could go much higher.
Also, to add fuel to the fire, you have lots of millennials still working from home with their new Robinhood accounts and money they’d like to put into the market. It won’t take a whole lot of that money to go into silver to cause a big move upward. Perhaps some money might even rotate out of bitcoin and other cryotos.
Then you have the story of roughly $4 billion of fake gold being used as collateral for bank loans in China. This was on zerohedge.com. ZH is speculating that there is more fake gold in China. Rather than go to jail, Tyler Durden is saying another way out would be for those with fake gold being used as collateral replace it with real gold. The sooner they act, the less it would likely cost.
Add in a pandemic that pretty much caught the world by surprise and you’ve got a nice recipe for much higher prices. It would be pretty nice to say to a car dealer, “Hey I’ll trade this 100 oz. bar of silver for that car.” Especially if he offers to throw in five years of free oil changes!
Remember what happened around that same time? Yes indeed, that is when silver started a run from the teens to $49+ in Spring, 2011. Will history repeat? Who knows. Is silver due for a run? IMHO- yes. This could be fun to watch. Also, a very long-term chart shows a double top in silver with the tops near $50ish in 1980 and 2011. If we bust through $50 decisively this time, the move could go much higher.
Also, to add fuel to the fire, you have lots of millennials still working from home with their new Robinhood accounts and money they’d like to put into the market. It won’t take a whole lot of that money to go into silver to cause a big move upward. Perhaps some money might even rotate out of bitcoin and other cryotos.
Then you have the story of roughly $4 billion of fake gold being used as collateral for bank loans in China. This was on zerohedge.com. ZH is speculating that there is more fake gold in China. Rather than go to jail, Tyler Durden is saying another way out would be for those with fake gold being used as collateral replace it with real gold. The sooner they act, the less it would likely cost.
Add in a pandemic that pretty much caught the world by surprise and you’ve got a nice recipe for much higher prices. It would be pretty nice to say to a car dealer, “Hey I’ll trade this 100 oz. bar of silver for that car.” Especially if he offers to throw in five years of free oil changes!