I have previously used this relationship to predict how silver will trade. Below is an extract of that update:
Currently, there is another situation in the silver and gold market that provides an opportunity to predict how silver prices might trade over the coming months. I have pointed this out before, in a previous article. Here, I would just like to provide an update, and add a few more thoughts.
This situation or opportunity revolves around the 1980 all-time high for both metals. Gold passed its 1980 all-time high during 2008, while silver is yet to do so. By looking at the pattern of how gold passed its 1980 high, we can predict how silver might do it as well.
Below is a comparison of silver and gold around their respective 1980 highs:
From the chart, you can see there is similarity in how gold and silver approached their 1980 high. Gold and silver made a triangle-type pattern (marked 1–3) just before it reached the 1980 all-time high. When it came out of that triangle pattern, it rallied strongly to the 1980 high, which started the formation of a flag-type pattern (marked 3–9).
It appears that silver is now past point 9 (Dec. 29, 2011), and will now be eyeing that $50/ounce (oz) level.
Market conditions often cause silver to fall behind gold for quite some time, whereafter silver normally catches up in a big way. The fact that silver is still caught up in a trading range lower than its 1980 high—at least four years longer than gold already—provides a classic opportunity for silver to follow that “catching up pattern” and zoom to multiples of its 1980 high.
With gold having passed $1,700/oz (twice the 1980 high of $850/oz) already, given the above analysis, it stands to reason that $100/oz (twice the 1980 high of $50/oz) silver is virtually guaranteed.
There are many indicators suggesting that we are close to a point where silver might catch up with gold, relative to its 1980 high, in a big way. My recent analysis of the gold:silver ratio also seems to suggest this. So, as things stand, I expect silver to outperform gold for most of this year, and I stand by my target of at least $140/oz silver by the end of 2012.
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Hubert
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