Silver Prices start the week in fine form

Here in the southern hemisphere we are off and running with the Australian and Asian markets ticking along at more than a canter. Gold prices are up $8.20 to $1427.90 and silver prices are up $0.62 at $35.90. So, its a great start and if we can keep some momentum going on the London Stock Exchange then the shorts will be in for a torrid time as New York hits the opening bell.

However, yip, there is always a 'BUT' - London is notorious for losing its bottle as the New York open draws near and in our experience does tend to move closer to the last traded price on the NYSE rather than be a pace setter itself.

Still, this opening is better then a lower opening to the week and signals to the market that there are still keen buyers out there who want to own silver at these price levels

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Comments

[John Davidson]

Endeavor Silver contest - 1.07

[Di]

It doesn't matter they are up at the beginning of the week. It has already showed the trend reversal. I am short and strong.
Good luck!

[fallingman@charter.net]

These clear "trend reversals" don't seem to be very lasting, do they, whether they be in stocks or the metals?

[Silver Prices]

Di,

Take care here as silver is up $0.76 at $36.04, at noon in NYC. As we understand it, supply is still tight and the buyers have yet to be put off by higher and higher prices.

[snakeman]

There's no "trend reversal" in physical spot price. Nothing but incredible strength in the physical markets, months running. Premiums on ebay silver sales are as high as ever, and that includes those seen in fall 2008...so all I can say is short silver at your own peril. But do what you got to do, it's your choice Di...herpetologist Snakeman

[fallingman@charter.net]

If I might ask, respectfully, who exactly should be taking care? I always take care...often too much care. The shorts? Yeah, the shorts could get the ride of their lives. Could be a downright religious experience.

Uh, yeah, supply is tight. Hello. There's a newsflash for ya.

And if I might reiterate a point that is very important and that most people miss.

Just because a price is "high" relative to where its been means nothing. Looking at where a price has been to determine where it "should be" is an amateur's mistake.

At the root of what I'll call the "fair price fallacy" is Thomas Acquinas's (and Aristotle's) notion that an objectively determined fair price exists for everything.

That's nonsense, of course, but vestiges of that thinking persist. It shows up in things like what we think a ballplayer is worth or in our allegations of price gouging when people charge more for a commodity that's suddenly in short supply. But where it really affects us is in the idea that historical prices tell us anything meaningful about what a "fair" price for silver should be. So many people make this mistake and sell, "because it's u so much."

lus, you hear it everyday from the pitchmen that want to buy your scrap.

"With gold at record prices, there's never been a better time to sell your unwanted gold." Yeah, right. I don't know about you, but I like things that are going up in price.

So what if it's higher than it's been for 3 decades? That doesn't preclude it from going 3 or 6 or 20 times higher.

The RATE of increase is a different story. When a trend accelerates and the rate of increase in price gets above a certain level, that can can matter a lot to your trading success. That's why the lads follow the RSI and the MACD so closely and one of the reasons they do so well with the timing of their moves on their option trades, which must be timed well.

May higher and higher beget higher and higher.

[quincer]

when the shorts are down and most exposed, the silver viper will strike.

[snakeman]

Amen to Quincer! Snakeman

[Silver Prices]

Whats it got to do with Italian scooters?

...... well maybe that was a Vespa eh!