Yet... the metals are still in trouble
Such a comment is indeed heresy as viewed from the typical pro-metal website/blog. Everyone should just 'buy buy buy' as much gold/silver as possible immediately! Yeah, well, buying silver since April 2011 has not exactly been the most profitable trade for the past year.
Lets take a look at the last 5 years, and a glimpse into the next 2 years.
*I use SLV/GLD when referencing Silver/Gold, it makes little difference overall, the price changes are the same, and both of those ETFs are heavily traded anyway.
1. Silver, the more dynamic and wild.
Silver remains in a broad up trend, although near term, we are still heading down. Yes, we've come up considerably since last Novembers low of $26, but again SLV is failing at the 10MA.
Unless Silver breaches the next key psy' level of $40, Silver is without question, still weak.
2012 best guess: $20
Low end target would be...$15/17
2. Gold, the boring and more stable one ;)
The Gold chart looks very much like Silver - although certainly more stable, and stronger. So far the pullbacks have been pretty moderate - except for the recent $95 single day fall.
2012 best guess: $1200/1300
Low end target remains: $1000 - although this seems almost impossible considering the continuing and periodic QE from the central banks.
A summer of bitching and whining ahead?
Last spring the metal fanatics were ready to celebrate, only to get one of the ultimate commodity smack downs. Whether you believe that's the result of the infamous meddling morgue', or just 'market forces', it really is irrelevant. What matters is that despite the hysteria - just as the main market indexes were maxed out in first week of May, the metals were beginning a severe decline.
Of course, rather than $49, Silver is starting from a mere 33. Downside into the low 20s is really not unthinkable.
What is believable..is the amount of rage, horror, and sheer disgusts that the pro-metal community will be venting this summer and possibly into the autumn - if the above outlooks are broadly correct.
Ironically, as is often the case, it will be when some of the very best pro-metal message board posters go 'radio silent', this will be the best buy signal we'll ever be given.
yours...
a fan of the precious metals, but patiently waiting