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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2438619, member: 27832"]That's an odd perspective on the chart, in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://goldsilverworlds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/silver_price_long_term_1800_2013.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The silver price chart over the past 200 years is dominated by the huge spikes around 1980 and 2011. Besides that, there was a significant event in the early 1860s -- might have had something to do with politics <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> -- one in the late 1910s, one coming out of the Depression in the 1930s, one in the mid 1940s (politics again), one in the late 1960s, one around 1983, one around 2008... you get the picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>We tend to ignore little booms that happen in the shadow of the big spikes, but they do happen. And as for extrapolating a period of repetition from just two events -- well, it's better than extrapolating from one event, but not by much.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I'm indulging in chart-augury, something that I tend to make fun of when other people do it. Charts aren't causes or predictors, except when enough people believe that they are (and stake money on that belief).</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I do agree about DCA into a major stock index being a better choice, even after watching my retirement portfolio drop by about half in 2008 -- I'm not retired yet, so I let it sit, and it quickly regained its losses and then some. And the money I put in during the dip multiplied very nicely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2438619, member: 27832"]That's an odd perspective on the chart, in my opinion. [IMG]http://goldsilverworlds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/silver_price_long_term_1800_2013.gif[/IMG] The silver price chart over the past 200 years is dominated by the huge spikes around 1980 and 2011. Besides that, there was a significant event in the early 1860s -- might have had something to do with politics ;) -- one in the late 1910s, one coming out of the Depression in the 1930s, one in the mid 1940s (politics again), one in the late 1960s, one around 1983, one around 2008... you get the picture. We tend to ignore little booms that happen in the shadow of the big spikes, but they do happen. And as for extrapolating a period of repetition from just two events -- well, it's better than extrapolating from one event, but not by much. But I'm indulging in chart-augury, something that I tend to make fun of when other people do it. Charts aren't causes or predictors, except when enough people believe that they are (and stake money on that belief). Edit: I do agree about DCA into a major stock index being a better choice, even after watching my retirement portfolio drop by about half in 2008 -- I'm not retired yet, so I let it sit, and it quickly regained its losses and then some. And the money I put in during the dip multiplied very nicely.[/QUOTE]
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