We have recently noticed how the actions of top executives at some of the largest financial institutions are not too different from those of The Sopranos. (read more)

In May 2006 silver spiked at fifteen dollars and the HUI Index also spiked at 400, today we have silver trading at seventeen dollars, having been as high as twenty dollars, and the HUI Index stands at 406!

This raises the question of whether it is better to invest in the metal itself or to invest in silver stocks?

To answer this question we need to determine why we are no longer seeing any leverage in the stocks to the metal (read more…)

To bring you a different viewpoint we are posting this article by David Galland, the Managing Director of Casey Research with the intent of adding some balance to the debate.(read more)

As we are now of the opinion that the US dollar may spend some time going sideways, or perhaps even making some gains, we also now think that precious metals are going to take a significant drop.

We know we may sound a bit like a broken record, but gold is still too far above its 200 day moving average! This gap must be closed, and we think that closure will happen within the next couple of months. That means a $100 haircut for gold, which will hit gold stocks hard and also drag the silver price south (read more…)

After a cracking start to 2008 silver has dropped back from the heady days of $20/oz to close on Friday at $17.82, so the question we face is what lies ahead for gold’s sparkly little brother?

The following will cover some of those factors that we need to take into consideration before we decide to make a trade (read more…)

We are hereby signalling to Take Profits on Hecla Mining and we sold 50% of our holdings today at an average price of $11.79.

Our selling of Hecla has been mainly motivated by technical factors (read more…)

We have a number of new subscribers who have asked to explain this average, as we do tend to mention it on a frequent basis.

There are many indicators that come together in technical analysis to give us clues as to where a particular stock or commodity is headed. One of the most popular indicators is the moving average, which can be range from 5 days to 200 plus days (read more…)

Endeavour Silver Corporation operating results for 2007 show that Revenues were Up 106%, Production Up 58%, Reserves Up 50%. The highlights are as follows (read more…)

As we write silver is trading around $18/oz, having pierced the magical $20/oz already this year. This year will be a good year for silver however; this current pull back could see silver re-visit its 200dma, which stands at $15/oz at the moment as explained, on the chart below.

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Here is a summary of the silver stocks we are currently invested in or following (read more…)

In early morning trading our target silver company flirted with us by trading at $3.26, so we upped our instruction to buy by 1 cent to $3.26 and in small lots our order was slowly filled. The temptation became too much for us and as we said before we are not very good at being patient so we pounced (read more…)