Most of the introductory part of the parallel Gold Market update applies equally to silver, so it will not be repeated here, and we will move straight to looking at the charts.
Recent action in silver looks very similar to that of GDX, which we looked at last week. On the 6-month chart, we can see that both have broken down from rather steep uptrends in force from early March by virtue of moving sideways, and silver looks like it is completing a small Head-and-Shoulders top that will lead to a period of retreat, which would be exacerbated by a drop in the broad stockmarket and temporary dollar rally, as discussed in the Gold Market update.
Two further points on this chart worth mentioning are that the MACD indicator has broken below its moving average, which increases the risk of a drop, and the overall trend at this point is gently higher, as shown by the positive alignment of the moving averages.
Silver's latest COT chart shows that, while there is room for further gains, it looks more likely to react than to advance over the short to medium-term.
Moving on to the 5-year chart, we see that, following the steep rally out of the Covid crash low of Spring 2020, silver has basically been stuck in a giant trading range ever since, hardly an impressive performance, especially when you factor in inflation during this period, and it is worth repeating here this paragraph from the Gold Market update.
Taking all this into consideration, especially the recent ramping up of inflation, it may seem strange that gold and silver's paper price has still not risen above their highs of mid-2020, almost three years later. Here we should factor in that the paper price of gold and especially silver is rigged — you go try and buy a quantity of physical gold and silver at the paper price and see how far you get.
Apparently, J.P. Morgan controls more than 50% of the paper silver market, and demand for physical silver is now at record levels, although you wouldn't think so looking at the paper price, and demand is set to continue to grow rapidly. If there was true price discovery in these markets, the prices would be much higher, and there wouldn't be shortages; it's that simple.
What this means is that we are effectively seeing "price fixing" of the sort you see in communist-style command economies, which creates shortages and a black market. Unless they stop rigging these markets, we can expect to see a thriving black market start to flourish in gold and silver as demand pressures build, regulation or not, that will eventually render those attempting to rig their price as impotent and sidelined.
Although a temporary dollar rally is looking increasingly likely, the longer-term outlook for the dollar is grim. Thus, even though a short-term retreat by silver looks likely, longer-term, it is expected to soar.
This being we will be looking to buy any significant near-term reaction, and a breakout above the resistance at the upper boundary of the big trading range shown on our 5-year chart will be viewed as a major buy signal.
Originally published on clivemaund.com on April 24, 2023.
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