Silver’s Valuable Insights Into The Upcoming PMs Rally

The analysis of the precious metals market isn’t just gold analysis – there are times when silver rises to the forefront of everyone’s attention. And we fully expect such a moment of the white metal stealing the spotlight to arrive shortly. What lessons can we draw from the silver chart?

The key analogy in silver (in addition to the situation being similar to mid-90s) continues to be the one between 2008 and the 2016 – now periods.

There is no meaningful link in case of time, or shape of the price moves, but if we consider the starting and ending points of the price moves that we saw in both cases, the link becomes obvious and very important. And price patterns in many markets tend to repeat themselves to a considerable extent. Sometimes directly, and sometimes proportionately.

The rallies that led to the 2008 and 2016 tops started at about $14 and we marked them both with orange ellipses. Then both rallies ended at about $21. Then they both declined to about $16. Then they both rallied by about $3. The 2008 top was a bit higher as it started from a bit higher level. And it was from these tops (the mid-2008 top and the early 2017 top) that silver started its final decline.

In 2008, silver kept on declining until it moved below $9. Right now, silver’s medium-term downtrend is still underway. If it’s not clear that silver remains in a downtrend, please note that the bottoms that are analogous to bottoms that gold recently reached, are the ones from late 2011 – at about $27. Silver topped close to $20.

The white metal hasn’t completed the decline below $9 yet, and at the same time it didn’t move above $19 - $21, which would invalidate the analogy. This means that the decline below $10, perhaps even below $9 is still underway.

Naturally, the implications for the following months are bearish.

Let’s consider one more similarity in the case of silver. The 2012 and the 2018 – today performance are relatively similar, and we marked them with red rectangles. They both started with a clear reversal and a steady decline. Then silver bottomed in a multi-bottom fashion, and rallied. This time, silver moved above its initial high, but the size of the rally that took it to the local top (green line) was practically identical as the one that we saw in the second half of 2012.

The decline that silver started in late 2012 was the biggest decline in many years, but in its early part it was not clear that it’s a decline at all. Similarly to what we see now, silver moved back and forth with lower highs and lower lows, but people were quite optimistic overall, especially that they had previously seen silver at much higher prices (at about $50 and at about $20, respectively).

The 2012 corrective upswings were actually the final chances to exit long positions and enter short ones. It wasn’t easy to do it back then just as it’s not easy to do so right now. But the size of the decline that followed speaks for itself. In investing and tading, what’s pleasant and what’s profitable is rarely the same thing.

Silver’s huge early-January reversal confirms gold’s reversal. Silver’s volume didn’t set a new record, but it was truly big nonetheless. Definitely more than enough to make silver’s reversal important and reliable. It’s very bearish on its own and extremely bearish when examined together with gold’s reversal.

Silver has been very volatile recently, but the overall tendency for silver to outperform gold and mining stocks in the final part of a given rally remains intact. This means that if the precious metals sector is to rally for the next week or so, silver is likely to rally visibly.

There is something interesting on its chart that we would like to share with you. Namely, silver’s performance so far this year resembles the way silver behaved after the early-September 2019 top.

We marked the analogous price extremes with ellipses of the same color. The tops are in black, the initial lows are in red, the first corrective highs are in blue, then the lowest short-term lows are in green, then the next corrective highs are in orange, and then the final short-term lows are in purple.

If the similarity is to persist, silver is likely to rally particularly well this week.

This is especially the case, given silver’s intraday breakout above the declining dashed resistance line that you can see on the above chart.

Just as gold broke above its resistance line, silver did the same thing above a different line. The implications are very bullish for the short term. The market just confirmed our decision to advantageously adjust the profit-take levels in silver – and our subscribers already know what that means precisely.

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Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA

Editor-in-chief, Gold & Silver Fund Manager

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