SILVER: LOOKING FOR THAT ELUSIVE BOTTOM

Last week we took a look at potential bullish outcome for gold via an apparent developing ‘head-and-shoulders’ formation. This week, I am taking a brief look at silver which is experiencing terrible indigestion against what is now a 29 month downtrend going back to the May, 2011 high near $50. That downtrend line (shown below at the $25.00 level) will need to be decisively penetrated while simultaneously crossing above the 50 week moving average (blue line) and th 200 week moving average (green line).

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SILVER SHORT SQUEEZE

“Silver has suffered a miserable year so far, bludgeoned by gold’s unprecedented selling anomaly. The exceptional weakness in both metals was greatly exacerbated by futures speculators piling on short-side bets. But with silver shorts hitting record extremes, a super-bullish short squeeze now looms.Any rapid silver rally is likely to spook the highly-leveraged futures traders, sparking a massive stampede to cover.”

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GOLDEN ECONOMICS & SILVER SURPRISE

1. The saying, “Close, but no cigar!” could probably be used now, to describe gold & silver investors trying to call a turn in the market.

2. Bank analysts are more bearish. UBS technical strategist Richard Adcock says,“The next leg of the bear trend is to be seen down to the long-term 50 percent retracement point at $1,303, which we would set as our objective.”

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