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Is This The Long-Awaited Silver Short Squeeze, The Beginning Of The Next Bull Market, Or Both? Or, Sigh, Neither?

by John Rubino ◆ April 18, 2018 24 Comments

Silver’s popping today.

Which is what people following the futures market action have been expecting for several months now. Speculators – usually wrong at big turning points and almost always at least slightly net long silver – have suddenly gone net short. This is almost unprecedented, and implies that a short squeeze – in which speculators are forced to cover their short bets by buying silver futures, thus forcing the price sharply higher – is a real possibility.

What does this mean going forward? Based on the extremes in the paper market the incipient short squeeze has a little longer to run. The next COT report comes out on Friday and will show where the speculators were on Tuesday. We can infer from today’s action that since Tuesday they will have closed a lot of shorts, which means we’ll have to wait for the following Friday’s report to know how many.

Longer term, this is the kind of attention-getting action that puts an asset back on the radar screens of non-true-believers. As hard as it is for us gold-bugs to imagine, the vast majority of people aren’t watching precious metals and have no idea why silver matters.

They do, however, notice when the price of something jumps. So if this short squeeze has legs and generates some headlines, it could pull in enough momentum chasing money to create a positive feedback loop in which rising prices beget more rising prices.

People will then try to figure out why this is happening, which will expose silver’s extremely positive fundamentals – tiny available supply, falling mine production, rising demand from technology and other industrial uses, and a tendency to soar in times of monetary stress – thus expanding the pool of fundamental investors.

Let gold finally break through that damn $1,360 resistance and it’s off to the races. (Here’s a free gold investing guide.)

But of course – as fans of precious metals have to readily admit – we’ve been waiting for (and sometimes predicting) stuff like this for years. So this latest flash of light might be yet another freight train heading our way. But one of these days what should happen will happen, and $100 silver will make up for a lot of angst.

 

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Comments

  1. tim zamp says

    April 18, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    get rid of that FELION SICK

    Reply
  2. ChinaTechTrade says

    April 18, 2018 at 8:39 pm

    I wait to see if the traditional Thursday Silver Knock-Down the bankers have pulled for 11 years takes prices to the correction tomorrow!
    They do this too many times, people fall for it, and they always win. In 11 years, they have never once lost! I hope not, but wait to see.

    Reply
  3. ManAboutDallas says

    April 18, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    The CrimNakes are simply NOT going to go quietly into that good night of which Dylan Thomas wrote; this latest move will prove to be yet their latest TRAP to snare the un-wary and the over-eager. But their time IS running out. Be prepared when the REAL breakout occurs.

    Reply

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