Silver has been a roller coaster ride lately with ups and downs and in betweens. No one can figure out this market. And if you can, you’re kidding yourself.
Buying silver, which historically, buying gold and silver has been done when the markets or dollar is down, is even a risky investment. Investors in precious metals have seen both of the major metals swing more than 15% in a months time. Going from 52 week highs to lows within a week.
However, the latest news from Wall Street, that Goldman Sachs beat estimates this quarter, comes as a boost to all commodities. Not because it’s finally good news from the investment banking world, or the banking world in general. But because the reports say that Goldman has had better than average returns in the commodities world or it’s investments.
To some this may seem obvious. Oil is up, way up, and buying things like gold and silver is just safe plays on a weak dollar and a strong commodities market. Traders don’t even have to buy just mining companies. They can get in by investing in silver ETFs like SLV.
But to others, just jumping on the bandwagon, it’s not that obvious and can still be a strong play in their investment portfolio, even in this run-up. As Blog Silver has said before, the demand is high and people are hesitant to dump their money into a volatile stock market. So they go looking for safer investments. Safer investments like gold and silver ETFs that can get large boosts from earnings reports that boast about commodities earnings.
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Great Blog – I just got into the SLV at 14.67 and have been interested in trading silver this way for a while. If the dollar continues to get weaker I have to believe we will see a nice spike in the short term – if not, its still a great long term investment.