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COT Silver Report - December 28, 2012

December 28, 2012

COT Silver Report - December 28, 2012

COT Silver Report - December 21, 2012

December 21, 2012

COT Silver Report - December 21, 2012

QE3 Silver Impact

Silver has been selling off relentlessly since the Federal Reserve expanded its third quantitative-easing campaign last week. As that decision was highly inflationary, silver’s subsequent weakness has really vexed traders. But its counter-intuitive selloff had nothing to do with fundamentals. As the Fed’s past QE campaigns demonstrated abundantly, QE3 will eventually prove to be very bullish for silver’s fortunes.

My Worst Fear

December 17, 2012

In simple terms, Commissioner Chilton’s response to the reader confirms my worst fear – the reason the CFTC hasn’t moved against the silver manipulation is that they don’t understand it. Even though the agency publishes remarkably detailed and accurate data on concentration in their weekly COT reports, they apparently don’t comprehend what it is they are publishing. As a big believer in the premise that recognition of a problem is 50% of the ultimate solution; I also believe that if a problem…

COT Silver Report - December 14, 2012

December 14, 2012

COT Silver Report - December 14, 2012

Silver’s Young Upleg

Although you wouldn’t know it from listening to all the bearish commentary out there, silver is actually enjoying a strong young upleg. Its technicals are very bullish, contradicting the prevailing pessimism gripping traders. This glaring disconnect between price action and sentiment won’t last forever. It has hammered silver stocks to depressed levels that offer a smorgasbord of opportunity for brave contrarians.

COT Silver Report - December 7, 2012

December 07, 2012

COT Silver Report - December 7, 2012

COT Silver Report - November 30, 2012

November 30, 2012

COT Silver Report - November 30, 2012

COT Silver Report - November 26, 2012

November 26, 2012

COT Silver Report - November 26, 2012

A Manipulation Timeline

November 26, 2012

A friend and long-time subscriber who intends to write a book about the silver manipulation asked if I could provide him with a bit of history. To my mind, the silver manipulation dates back to early 1983, when the commercial traders grew confident that they could sell any quantity of paper short contracts to the technical fund buyers on the COMEX. By that time the commercials learned that technical fund buyers would never take physical delivery and could be counted on to buy or sell based…

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