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.

 

I called my LCS today & they said "not buying silver today, the wholesaler wasn't buying". This was for ASE's--I have a roll of 1992's--at $65-ish, I can't see not selling some silver at around that price.

I'm thinking of contacting APMEX, but doing business like that makes me nervous. I'm experienced at selling on fee-bay, but they take 13.6%, & most sellers offer free shipping, so there's another hit. I also have 1963 & 64 Canada P-L $$ that I've had since the Beatles era.

I see some people here saying they're still buying silver??? Maybe they're smarter than me, but I've seen too many of these silver bubbles. BTW, that roll of ASE's I paid $220 for--I should've bought a "monster box".....

 

9 years ago I bought these which are 4 ounces each at $75 or about $18.75 / oz
not a bad profit if I sell them.


but I keep forgetting, it is worth $20 trillion or about $5 trillion per ounce. I might have to wait a few more years for spot to catch up.

I've been buying silver since the late 1980s. I'm doing far better in the stock market by comparison.

 

That's what I bought in 2006 at $12.80 an ounce. Sold most of them during the bull market of 2011. Have been steadily acquiring more since then but I'm still kicking myself for stopping my purchases when silver got a bit over 30 bucks.

 

A 5% drop over the last hour or so. Dip, or precipice?

 

probably just a dip.
Large volume in that short selloff.
but still strong, consistent buying afterwards with lowering volumes.




when you look at longer term such as 1 month or 3 month you'll see the consistent rise is from lower volumes. A lot of volume spikes but that's to be expected with PMs.

 

...shut your mouth!

 

Profit takers are at it again toddy. Silver is down to $62.00 an ounce. Maybe they need the money to buy Christmas presents.

 

That one sentence sounds like it should be a quote from a Twilight Zone episode.

 

The CME Group has lost a lot of influence since 2011. Foreign entities and investors are now a big factor. The bullion banks and CME might well find themselves outmaneuvered in the near future. Couldn’t happen to a better crowd.

 

I agree