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February 27, 2008


20 Years of Silver Prices

Here’s a look at the monthly silver chart. You can see that price has more than quadrupled since 2002 and the Sequential (eventually) nailed the low back in 1992. I’ve recently featured the charts of the other preciouses (hissed like Gollum): platinum and gold.


Click to enlarge (Silver, Spot prices, Monthly Chart)

17 Responses to “20 Years of Silver Prices”

  1. v838mons said:

    $Silver will be THE Best investment of 2008, outperforming Everything… and one of the best investments for the next decade…

  2. C. Maoxian said:

    v838: Your guess is as good as mine. :) (I still think it looks like a blowoff.)

  3. Tom D said:

    If you didn’t own any commodity exposure currently you still might want to buy a tiny bit “just in case” it never goes lower. And then buy more when it “does” go lower. But if you own from much lower prices, just hold.

  4. Tom D said:

    Of course in you “know” exactly what will happen over the next few months, no problem. However, I’ve never met anyone who did know that. Ten to twenty years some know, but not ten to twenty days or weeks which are just noise for the scalpers and traders.

  5. Tom D said:

    My guess is that coffee will be a ten to twenty bagger while silver may double or quadruple at best from here. Both will beat generic stock-centric investors by a large margin.

  6. brandon said:

    CM: I am very curious in term of silver climbed to $50 back in the 80’s or 70’s that I read about in most investment books. Is there a way you can extended the silver chart above to that period?

  7. C. Maoxian said:

    brandon: Yes, I can get data that goes back to the 70s, but I think I can only draw a line chart … maybe monthly closing data only? Will take a look when I get a chance.

  8. brandon said:

    Thanks CM.

  9. pancho said:

    What is a generic stock-centric investor?

  10. Nik said:

    I think silver is supposed to come down slightly in price by the end of the 2008 going into 2009 due to expansions in supply, including Goldcorps large Penasquito project in Mexico.

  11. C. Maoxian said:

    @pancho: I think Tom D. had been hitting the bottle pretty hard before that flurry of comments. :)

    @Nik: Engaging in some funnymental analysis, eh?

  12. pancho said:

    C Mao, he also used that term on his website. But for me, no comprehende.

  13. C. Maoxian said:

    pancho: Maybe “average stock investor” is a good translation?

  14. Dan said:

    An investor who deals centrally in stocks, and not say commodities or precious metals.

  15. Wind_ said:

    CM, I know that those numbers 1-13 are TD Sequential & Countdown. What are those green, red, and purple dashed lines? Are they DeMark’s indicators, too?

  16. C. Maoxian said:

    Wind_: The green and red lines are a Bloomberg proprietary study called “Trender” which is a volatility-based stop, I believe. The purple dashed line is connected with the Sequential and marks the stop-loss level for the 13 countdowns, i.e. say a 13 top is put in, then the purple dashed line will draw X% above to act as a stop-loss level for folks who get short based on the 13 top. Am I clear or further muddying things? It’s all technical mumbo-jumbo. :)

  17. Wind_ said:

    Ah.. got it.. loud n clear ;)

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