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 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…)

Silver spent the day in the firing line where another loss was registered of 8.89% during the trading session lowering the price to $16.79 at the close. Now isn’t the time to feel sorry for yourself, now is the time to focus and concentrate on those silver stocks that you wanted to own but did not buy because they where too expensive (read more…)

Its difficult not to get carried away with the euphoria when the precious metals, gold and silver are at all time highs and the next stop appears to be the moon.

The last couple of days of trading has seen our sector of the market take it on the chin (read more…)

We predicted a “major rally” in silver that we thought would begin at the end of the summer. Silver has risen more than 70% since the end of the summer, a terrific gain and of course we are pleased that we made a good call.

We have seen $20 silver coming from a long way off as longer term readers of The Silver Prices Newsletter will recall (read more…)

Gold is overbought in our opinion and we think the yellow metal is in for a short term correction. We feel the same way about silver.

The coming drop in gold and silver prices will drag precious metals stocks down with it and so we are taking profits and selling some shares (read more…)

Silver has gained roughly a dollar since the begining of 2008 and silver prices have increased a massive $5.00, or over 43%, since we gave a BUY signal days after silver prices hit a bottom in August.

Silver is also up $2.00 since our triple BUY signal a little over a month ago, on December 7th 2007, when we flashed three BUY signals on silver stocks Silver Standard, Eagle Plains and Endeavour Silver.

However it is important not to get caught up in the recent success of silver and the precious metals. Nothing goes up in a straight line, and corrections are part of a bull market. We think that (read more…)

Silver prices have been on quite a run recently but it looks as if they are now overbought and due a correction.

Although all the fundamentals of this silver bull market still support a large rise in silver prices over the long term, in the shorter term silver prices appear to us to be overbought and due a correction (read more…)

Silver prices recently peaked at over $16 and ounce but since then have dropped back to the $14.50 area.

After a drop of roughly $1.50 in the silver prices, our instincts are telling us that a trading opportunity could be rapidly approaching in silver. This opportunity has a double purpose (read more…)

Today we could be seeing the beginning of a small correction in gold and silver and the associated stocks.

Silver prices have fallen nearly 90 cents to $14.67 and the HUI gold mining index has lost over 25 points whilst the XAU has dropped more than 10 (read more…)