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Download2Bs And Negative Divergences: Silver Stalls At The Top
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Failure to follow through on the move above $14 creates potential for reversal or consolidation.
A Look At Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver is the poor man's gold. As the price of gold dropped, the price of silver fell even faster. Is it time to start buying silver?
A Pan American Silver Corp. 2B Bottom
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A hammer candlestick puts the finishing touches on a picture-perfect 2B bottom in early October.
After The Big Drop, Is Silver A Buy?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver fell more than 20% last week, and bottom pickers must be wondering if it's due for a bounce. Testing says probably not.
Along Came Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A new exchange-traded fund will let retail stock traders make bets on the price of silver.
Ambushing Gold, Silver, And Platinum
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold, silver, and platinum are often positively correlated. Their prices can move in a predictable manner, and price patterns are often present that can be spotted and taken advantage of. Here is one such pattern
An Update On Silver Standard Resources And The Underlying Commodity
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A potential bottom in silver prices and a similar setup in Silver Standard Resources could point to a good buying opportunity.
Apex Silver Lagging
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Despite strength in the precious metals group, Apex Silver (SIL) is lagging badly and the chart pattern points to further weakness.
Are Silver Futures Overheated?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver is part of the precious metals sector currently in a long-term bull market. With all the uncertainity related to the equity markets and the global terror threat, it has had a vertical upmove in the past few days. Vertical upmoves are something e
Bubble Watch: Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Recent action in silver makes the 1980 bubble top seem like rational exuberance.
First Majestic Silver Corp: Bullish Divergences
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of First Majestic Silver Corp. have been bludgeoned by the market during the first half of 2013; will the second half of this year see a meaningful reversal in this stock?
For Silver, A Keltner Warning
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Imagine: less than eight years ago, you could have bought silver at less than $5 an ounce. These days, silver is not only priced six times higher, it may also be giving advance warning of an impending reversal -- this time on its monthly chart.
Gold & Silver Index -Ascending Triangle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold is a widely followed and important commodity in the financial market jigsaw puzzle. While a popular trading vehicle in its own right, it also has a strong inverse relationship with the US dollar. Unravelling the direction of gold can provide traders
Gold & Silver Index Could Be Topping Out
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Gold & Silver Index has been chugging higher the last several months but the technicals are indicating a potential reversal in the near future.
Gold & Silver Index Enters Fresh Downtrend?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The corrective rally of the gold & silver index has breached its trendline support. Will the index establish support or plunge further?
Gold & Silver Index In Bearish Mood?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The technical charts of the Gold & Silver Index have the potential of short-selling as well as for a long-term buy setup.
Gold & Silver Index Move In Narrower Range
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The symmetrical triangle on the $XAU chart is likely to contract the Index range.
Gold And Silver Miners Prepare To Reverse Higher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...They've been sold off mercilessly for the past few months, but a tradable bottom reversal may soon be at hand for the stocks in the precious metals mining industry group.
Gold And Silver Seasonal Bottoms
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See why December 2020 could be a good time to buy precious metals.
Gold And Silver Stocks Outperforming Metals ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold prices are about 28% higher than they were one year ago, but even that rise pales in comparison with the gains made by many precious metal mining stocks.
Gold Stocks And Silver Outperforming Gold
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Metals -- are they at some sort of a top, or are they destined to run still higher through year-end? No one really knows, but right now, silver futures and gold equities are substantially outperforming gold futures.
Hi Ho Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver has had a nice run in recent months, but it could be time for prices to cool down. The iShares Silver Trust could be setting up a bearish head & shoulders top, but a trendline is standing in the way of the pattern. Let's explore the possi
In Silver, Keltner Clash No. 7 Approaches
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Apparently, metals traders feel that the announcement of the highly anticipated quantitative easing was more than a little inflationary, propelling gold and silver even higher. Will the silver market finally peak at or just beyond a key, rarely exceeded,
Investing in Gold and Silver Bullion
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold is rising astronomically, but holding shares in a mining company can be risky, especially if the company is selling their production forward. Are there alternatives?
Is It Time To Buy Silver?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Since peaking above $48 in April 2011, silver and other precious metals have been in correction mode. After hitting bottom for the second time in January, is now the time to buy 'poor-man's gold'?
Is Silver Bubbling Or Just Doing What It's Supposed To?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Given the meteoric rise of silver over the last year, many pundits have proclaimed the gray metal in bubble territory. But there is interesting evidence to indicate this is probably not the case.
Is Silver The Shine That Is Golden?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With Silver Wheaton, it appears so.
Is Silver Wheaton Making A Play?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With US automakers holding out tin cups and former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff alleged to have paupered his clients via a giant Ponzi scheme, we can understand why investors are scared to invest. Here's something to consider.
July Silver: Bottom Or Breakdown?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver spent April going down in nearly a straight line. Will silver spend June moving back up?
Learning From The Past With Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Technical analysis is based on the idea that history tends to repeat itself and shows up as similar patterns in charts. Other commodities have acted like silver, and their charts may help navigate this current bubble.
Minor Pullback Due In March Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver is in the midst of a brief rebound, one that may still have room to rise. Several solid support areas may offer traders a low-risk reentry point.
Mixed Signals For Silver Standard Resources
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Despite the recent correction, the long-term uptrend still points to higher prices.
MmM Pattern Breakout In December Silver Sends The Precious Metal Higher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A confirmed close serves as confirmation for a BOSO setup to the upside as well as a similarly bullish setup in the MACD histogram.
One For Silver Bulls: PAAS Breaks Out
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The chart of Pan American Silver Corporation (PAAS) was painting a rosy picture as the stock cleared a key resistance level after the formation of a bullish continuation pattern.
Petrifying Pattern In Gold & Silver Index
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Gold and Silver Index has produced a stealth-like rally from early May this year; is its luster fading?
Profitability of selected technical indicators: Silver by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Profitability of selected technical indicators: Silver by Thomas P. Drinka and Steven L. Kille In previous issues of this magazine, we reported the results of applying moving averages, momentum, %R, and Relative Strength Index (RSI) to Chicago Board of
Risk Assessment For Security Analysis by Lloyd Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Risk Assessment For Security Analysis by Lloyd Silver Assessing the risk in a security is an essential part of the investment process. Here, then, are the advantages and disadvantages of two common risk measures: variance and beta. Further, Lloyd Silv
Shine On Silver Diamond?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A diamond pattern forming in the wake of silver's sharp December correction threatens to send prices even lower.
Short Squeeze Alert - Is It Time To Buy Silver?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Precious metals have struggled of late and many are calling for a bear market. But here is some compelling evidence to the contrary.
Shouting Silver From The Rooftops?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is it time to start shouting it again?
Silver And A Swing Trading View
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Even in the hottest commodity markets, swing trading systems can and do go flat -- for a little while, that is.
Silver Breaks Down After A Vertical Rally
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Words from Alan Greenspan can often make or break a market. Silver has again proven this to be the case. Silver leads the commodity tailspin. But were there warnings of this crash?
Silver Breaks Out As Yields Dip
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is THIS the start of another major rally for silver after a lengthy consolidation?
Silver Breaks Triangle Pattern
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is silver invalidating the perfect triangle? It appears so.
Silver Buying Season Is Here
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Over the past 20 years, the best time to own silver has been the first eight weeks of the year. Will the trade work out again this year?
Silver Continues Post-Bubble Behavior
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After reaching a bubble top near $50 an ounce in April, silver hasn't given the bulls anything to cheer about.
Silver Downtrend Strengthens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As silver approaches an important support area, traders begin to take sides for the ensuing battle.
Silver Futures Bottom Out After A Massive Fall
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver fell by 40% in April 2004, and then formed an accumulation pattern. If it breaks out above 6770, it should see a target of 7470. With the uncertainity in global markets and the terror alerts, silver prices will stay firm.
Silver Futures Reversal At Hand?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver has managed to keep grinding higher for five consecutive months, rising in value by nearly 80% between July 28 and January 3. Is this rally in the terminal phase, or is there reason to believe that even higher prices can be achieved before a meani
Silver Has Established Strong Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After correcting 15 points from the new high, the silver spot price is consolidating. The index is likely to maintain its bullishness.
Silver Lining For Metals On Coronavirus Outbreak As Yields Decline
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver looks ready to break higher again after its recent consolidation inside a falling wedge pattern.
Silver Miners Approach 200-Day EMA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Similar to the gold mining industry group, the silver miners are also approaching a key technical and cyclical area.
Silver Monthly Uptrend Going Higher
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver makes much more powerful moves than gold, both higher and lower. Let's investigate the current state of the monthly silver chart to see if its current uptrend can carry higher from here.
Silver More Evidence Of A Possible Reversal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Most trend reversals give several warning signals before the turn finally comes. Here's another high-probability reversal setup in COMEX mini silver futures.
Silver Reaction Rally Nearing Detrend Extreme
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After every sharp selloff, it's normal to see a reaction move higher into resistance areas. The silver futures market may be at such a juncture at this moment.
Silver Ready To Move Lower
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver Standard Resources made a market top in late 2007 and has been trading lower this year. Over the last few months, SSRI has been in a narrow trading range that looks ready to break down and move lower.
Silver Signals Higher ... And Lower
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will the third triangle be the charm?
Silver Spurred
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A cup with handle consolidation from December through January leads to a breakout in silver futures.
Silver Standard Resources Bouncing Off Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SSRI is bouncing off a long-term support zone and is entering into a corrective rally that could see silver move up to $21.00 per ounce before the selloff resumes.
Silver Standard Resources Flag Breakdown
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The flag formation for SSRI has failed and signals that the SSRI will continue to trade lower in the short term. However, the short-term upward trend for SSRI should resume once this correction is complete.
Silver Standard Resources Has Short-Term Setup Based On Long-Term Cycle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Gold and silver stocks have rebounded strongly since making a major low in October 2008. Here's a look at a fundamentally intriguing stock that's currently offering a fairly low-risk trade setup.
Silver Strangle Play Both Sides Of The Market
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Not sure which way silver will move in the next few months? Not to worry, there's a way to play such indecision by selling options.
Silver Strings Out Consolidation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The consolidation in silver is narrowing as the triangle trendlines converge and Bollinger Bands contract.
Silver Temporarily Topping?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver has risen nearly fourfold since making a major low in October 2008. Was Thursday's sharp intraday pull back in this market a new buying op -- or more of a final warning to existing long positions?
Silver Trend Reversal Likely
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver staged a stupendous rally between August 24 and December 7, 2010, rising nearly 67% during that time. Now, however, a pair of reliable technical tools suggest that the silver market may be heading into a corrective mode.
Silver Weekly Chart's Uptrend Intact
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver is back on track, offering swing traders a potentially low-risk buy setup.
Silver Wheaton Approaching Key Support
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Having risen nearly threefold since making a major low in November 2008, shares of Silver Wheaton may be approaching an important test of support.
Silver Wheaton Breaks Above 200-Day EMA
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The precious metals sector has been holding its own lately; one of the key stocks to watch here is Silver Wheaton, which has just completed a very convincing bullish breakout.
Silver Wheaton Tops In Relative Strength Among Miners
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Up by nearly tenfold since making a major low in late 2008, shares of Silver Wheaton boast of very high relative strength versus its mining peer group. But can this rally continue?
Silver, Make Or Break
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The silver market, along with most other commodities, has taken a heavy hit over the past month. Currently, silver's price lies just above a key swing low made a week and a half ago. Will this support hold back more selling — or not?
Silver: Up For The Downstroke?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With a completed breakdown from a rising wedge, silver has moved to multimonth highs. Does that make it time to turn bullish?
So Long, Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A breakdown from a rising wedge may be the second of many more declines ahead for gold's shiny little sister.
Soaring Silver And A Systematic Plan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Not many markets are as hot as the silver market is right now, but regardless of a given market's temperature, you still need a logical, systematic way to trade it.
Stock Beta Coefficient by Scott S. Silver & Gary M. Wingens
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock Beta Coefficient by Scott S. Silver & Gary M. Wingens Over the course of the past two decades the investment community has become increasingly concerned with the notion of risk and its relationship to a portfolio of assets. Economists and statisti
The End Of The Bull Run For Silver?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Who would have believed in early 2003 that the price of silver -- at $5 an ounce -- was destined to rise to nearly $50 an ounce in only eight years? Is this latest plunge merely a blip, or is it warning of a structural change in the status of the epic bu
The Gold and Silver Bond Fund System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Gold And Silver Bond Fund System by Dennis Meyers, Ph.D. Building on his previous Gmi system article, this Contributing Editor develops a system using the Philadelphia Stock Exchange daily gold and silver stock index to trade a long-term government
The Silver Lining In The Stock Market
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you were to step back and look at the current state of the market through the eyes of a value investor, you could find yourself becoming excited at the possibilities for bargain-priced stocks.
Trading Forex Gold And Silver by Gary S. Wagner
Wave Of RMO Buy Signals In Gold And Silver Miners
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When 10 of the biggest stocks in the precious metals mining industry group flash simultaneous RMO swing buy signals, there's good reason to expect significant follow-through.
Why Silver? Here's Why
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Why silver?
Writing Neutral Options Spreads by Scott Silver
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Writing Neutral Options Spreads by Scott Silver Most investment advisors, stockbrokers and the like give their clients investment advice such as ""Buy IBM stock, the market's going up,"" or ""There's a glut of oil on the market, sell Exxon,"" etc., etc.
iShares Silver Trust Races For A Pennant
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After enduring a major multimonth bear market, iShares Silver Trust is forming a potentially bullish pattern.
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