Firstly, my long standing approach to Silver has been one of buying (accumulating) when the Silver price is cheap to invest to capitalise on long-term Spikes, as the silver price tends to be quite erratic in behaviour, prone to a lot of false signals so Silver can be a difficult market to trade i.e. tends to run stops and sharp movements contrary to the likes of Gold, just as we experienced during Summer 2019, with the bulk of the silver moves taking place towards the end of precious metals bull runs as illustrated by my analysis of May 2018 investing for a $35+ Spike.

Silver Forecast 2018 and Beyond, Investing for the $35+ Price Spike!

In terms of a Silver market position then as is currently the case the silver market can usually be expected to be a dead market with the tendency to flat line not just for many months but even years as it tends to play second fiddle to Gold in terms of tradable swings, usually only really coming alive towards the latter stages of precious metal bull markets.

Which remains my long-term target for a Spike to +$35, at which point I would likely be distributing (selling) holdings as usually investors only have a short window to sell before the spikes come and gone. Anyway the basic principle is to buy when cheap (which for me is a sub $15), and sell when it spikes which for me would be for around $38. I don't really care if it goes all the way to $50 and beyond as 170% profit for a 5 year investment is good enough expected return for me.

This year we had a crash lower to under $12! But no I did not buy any this time around because:

a. I already hold Silver (SLV).

b. My focus was on loading up on AI stocks for the KEY mega-trend of our times that will change EVERYTHING!

c. Silver is a side show, but for some reason many people want to know what Silver will do next. I would put far more importance on likes of Microsoft, Amazon, AMD or IBM than SIlver. Usually Silver is not on my radar. .

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Nadeem Walayat has over 30 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis focuses on UK inflation, economy, interest rates and housing market. He is the author of five ebook's in the The Inflation Mega-Trend and Stocks Stealth Bull Market series that can be downloaded for Free.

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