Over the years I’ve had much more success trading precious metals than the stock market. Even though they tend be more extreme or erratic than the stocks, they tend to move in more predictable patterns. The best market for trading in the second half of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011 was silver. After [...]
Silver has gone up more in the past 7 days than it was actually worth 10 years ago. Crazy! I’ve been trading silver futures for years and I don’t recall a time where the market has been so energetic to the upside with so little volatility on the down side. The past couple weeks remind [...]
With Silver Futures hitting 30 year highs all Silver ETFs are now at new 52 week as well as all time highs including the double silver etf AGQ. The only one that hasn’t reached a new 52 week high is the silver mining ETF as miners in general continue to lag the performance of the [...]
The top overall categories for the first two months of 2011 look much the same as the 4th quarter of 2010. Cotton ETF – BAL is the standout in the unleveraged crowd with a gain of 45% since January 1st. As you can see BAL is up about 45% in the past two months which [...]
As the #1 performing group in the ETF world Silver looks like it’s going to close out the year on a strong note as SLV is up over $1.00 today. This will close out the strongest year in silver since 1979. Back in 1980 the rally went completely vertical following the new year and topped [...]
