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Message:: [QUOTE="WingedLiberty, post: 1176670, member: 26030"]so since the SP 500 has doubled in value since it's 2009 low, does that mean it's full of small (little guy) investors that are driving stocks up and that the stock market is getting ready to crash?  just curious.  it's not clear to me how you are differentiating between a longer term bull market and what you are calling a bubble.  Silver is up 4x since the 2009 low, so what ... apple stock is up 4.5x ... netflix is up 12x ... oil is up 3.5x ... are all of these "bubbles"? Honestly i don't think the "little guy" is in the silver market to any great degree. Do you know any one of your friends or family or coworkers that is buying silver?  It's quite a bit different than 1999 when your cab driver or people at parties would tell you about the money they're making in dot.com stocks From what I have seen, the small investor has been selling (as have most of the people on this board).  I think the big drivers in the silver market has been the hedgefunds and high frequency traders who were simply following a momentum trade.  This decline in silver was driven entirely by ETF selling due to the multiple raising of margin requirements on silver by the CME over the past week ... and not the physical silver market (there has been and still is a shortage of physical silver).[/QUOTE]