brewer12345
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The front month future is down 10%! So much for being a safe haven. I hope any of you with lots of silver have been nimble...
11:00AM Silver futures lead broad metals decline; gold drops $20 by Myra P. Saefong
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- May silver dropped $1.822, or 12.6%, to $12.70 an ounce in New York, leading a broad decline among the metals futures. June gold sank $20, or 3.1%, to $616 an ounce after reaching a record $645 earlier in the session. "This originated in the silver pits," said Jon Nadler, an analyst at Kitco.com. There's "major profit-taking by funds that had loaded up ... in anticipation of the silver ETF," he said, and since the ETF still has not seen the light of day, "funds decided not to be pigs and took some money off the table."
Gold futures turned lower on strength in the dollar. The benchmark June contract was last down $15.50 at $620.50 an ounce.
Cool Dood said:This is easily explained as speculators speculating that speculators would speculate on the speculations of speculating speculators.
OldAgePensioner said:yes, investing in a diamond wedding ring! No speculation at all about how much that's gonna cost ya.
OldAgePensioner said:Wait, isn't a diamond forever?
youbet said:Not to hijack this thread, but I have a question about silver.
youbet said:Did they charge you anything for testing?
BTW, just to punish myself, I compared the growth of my "investment" in these silver bars with the hypothetical growth of the same dollar investment in the S&P 500 made 35 years ago. I'm sure you can guess the outcome! It's a good thing the rest of my "investments" worked better than this!
Apocalypse . . .um . . .SOON said:I think you're selling early. So, what could you buy if it goes to $50 or $100oz on this decade's run?