Posted on 05/20/2013 9:26:40 AM PDT by blam
Silver Has Now Had An Insane Day, And Is Actually Higher After Plunging 9%
Matthew Boesler
May 20, 2013
Silver got slammed last night when futures markets re-opened to begin the week.
At its lowest level, the precious metal had fallen nearly 9% to $20.25 an ounce.
Remarkably, it's already staged a big comeback, and it just turned positive on the day.
In the past few minutes, it's screamed higher, and is now trading around $23.00, up 2.7%.
Miller Tabak's Jonathan Krinsky offers some commentary on why the details of the sell-off may actually be positive for those bullish on gold and silver:
The other interesting action, which started last night, has been the precious metals. After being down over 8% at one point, Silver has nearly recovered the entire decline. Gold has actually gone into positive territory. If you are a Bull on precious metals, there are some positives in that type of action. First, Gold did NOT make a new low with Silver overnight. The low of 1338 was slightly higher than the April 16th low of 1322. That could be considered a non-confirmation and potential bullish divergence.
Also note that even as Silver made a new low by a wide margin, RSI does not appear to be doing so, another non-confirmation. Of course none of this means the medium or long-term trends have changed, they are still quite bearish. It does, however, open up the potential for a short-term bounce.
The chart below shows the price action in silver today.
FINVIZ.com
The next chart is a bit more zoomed in and shows the vertical move in silver in the past few minutes.
Thinkorswim
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Yeah....I’m gonna run right out and compete against a nanosecond computer cluster to get that ‘get’.....
Thus should help the “FAITH” in the markets....all is good here...no one is playing ..manipulating..nope..nothing going on here
Yep. Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium all took a sudden leap around noon today. Not sure what the news was about.
Anyone know where to get physical silver below $25?
No.
Just keep buying. Dollar cost averaging is your friend.
Looks like all the “buy” orders caught up with the sellers and drove the price back up.
(snip)
There are two bullion markets. One is a paper market in New York, Comex, where paper claims to gold are traded. The other is the physical market where personal possession is taken of the metal coin shops, bullion dealers, jewelry stores.
The way the banksters have it set up, the price of bullion is not set in the markets in which people actually take possession of the metals. The price is set in the paper market where speculators gamble.
This bifurcated market gave the Federal Reserve the ability to protect the dollar from its printing press.
On Friday, April 12, 2013, short sales of gold hit the New York market in an amount estimated to have been somewhere between 124 and 400 tons of gold. This enormous and unprecedented sale implies an illegal conspiracy of sellers intent on rigging the market or action by the Federal Reserve through its agents, the BTBF that are the bullion banks.
The enormous sales of naked shorts drove down the gold price, triggering stop-loss orders and margin calls. The attack continued on Monday, April 15, and has continued since.
Before going further, note that there are position limits imposed on the number of contracts that traders can sell at one time. The 124 tons figure would have required 14 traders with no open interest on the exchange to sell all together in the same few minutes 40,000 futures contracts. The likelihood of so many traders deciding to short at the same moment at the maximum permitted is not believable. This was an attack ordered by the Federal Reserve, which is why there is no investigation of the illegality.
Note also that no seller that wanted out of a position would give himself a low price by dumping an enormous amount all at once unless the goal was not profit but to smash the bullion price.
Since the April 12-15 attack on the gold price, subsequent attacks have occurred at 2pm Hong Kong time and 2 am New York time. At this time activity is light, waiting on London to begin operating. As William S.Kaye has observed, no entity concerned about profits would choose this time to sell 20,000 to 30,000 futures contracts, but this is what has been happening.
Who can be unconcerned with losing money in this way? Only a central bank that can print it.
(snip)
Last Friday, I bought 40% silver @23.22. Ask your local coin shop. Most people don’t care for 40 percent, but silver is silver.
Good one by Paul Craig Roberts
Those of you who think that “precious metals” are an asset preservation tool or mediums of exchange are in for a rude awakening.
Goldbug ping.
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