Taking Silver Profits - Swapping Silver for Gold
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I have held physical silver and gold investments continuously for 5 years, and on and off before that. Today I cashed out of silver, trading it for an equal dollar value of gold.
For the sake of full disclosure, my physical precious metals holdings are now entirely at GoldMoney and I have an affiliate relationship with them.
As a result of that relationship, I will likely be back in silver soon, but in small amounts, and hopefully at decreasing prices. If silver crashes, I will consider switching a considerable percentage of my gold for an equal dollar value of silver.
This is not a top call. I have no idea how high silver will go. No one else does either. I came close to cashing out near $30 but figured I would ride out a correction to low to mid $20's. That correction never came.
However, one thing I have learned is parabolic moves seldom end well. Please consider the following charts.
Silver Monthly Chart
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Gold Monthly Chart
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Disorderly Silver Advance
The advance in gold has been steady and orderly. In contrast, the advance in silver has been anything but orderly.
Parabolic spikes in anything typically retrace a significant part of the move, sometimes all of it.
Note the spike in silver from $4 to $8.50 retraced all the way back to $5.45 and the spike from $5.45 to $21.40 retraced all the way back to $8.40.
Parabolic Spikes Unstable
Given the unstable nature of parabolic and hyperbolic spikes, I believe the price of silver is highly likely to revisit the low $20's at some point. Thus, I see no point in chasing silver higher here. Moreover, except for pure speculation, I see little reason to even hold silver in this spike.
Both gold and silver seem susceptible to a pullback, but especially silver because of the unstable nature of its advance. For now, I will take my chances with gold.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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