Silver Is On A Tear Today

So glad I didn't listen to people that kept telling me the stock market was a better bet than silver bullion.

 

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Best of both worlds for investors is SLV, the silver ETF. Nothing goes straight up forever but when (if) it drops $2/oz I buy more. Another $2/oz drop I’d double my buy. I’m up about $50k since 2023. Still have a lot of firepower to spare so any selling works well for me.
It’s an investment thing

 

Yep, you can pick lots of one-week or one-year or maybe even ten-year spans where silver outperforms the stock market. But they're vastly outnumbered by the spans where it's the other way around.

But, hey, I'm enjoying this run too.

 

I went through some things last night, Gathered a bag of goodies to send off. Its to bad that most will be part of the great silver melt of 25!

 

My experience has been that getting too cocky (for example, historically high value of anything you own) usually does not end well. Better to be humble and silently happy.

 

I'm really eyeing for sale the 14 90% silver modern commemorative $s I have still that are actually quite common....since I got most of them for ~$22 each within the last year.

Current melt value is more than double that today.

 

Last night, the CME Group raised margin requirements on silver futures by 50%—a "Nuclear Option" designed to flush out speculators and crash the price. In 2011, this exact move caused a 30% collapse. But today, Friday, December 12, 2025, the price of silver barely flinched. The "Margin Nuke" has failed.

 

Still the case*. I've made much better returns in the market the last five years than in bullion. If you take 2025 as a specific slice, then silver has performed better.
*Like any investment it depends on your own specific situation.

 

More power to you if you do well in the markets. Personally I sleep better being in possession of my money. The only drawback is that I'm getting a sore back from sleeping on all this bullion and cash.