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Valued Member
United States
307 Posts |
There must be something of value in the catalytic converters as some were cut off cars in a mall shopping center.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2335 Posts |
I don't have any idea where the price of silver is going. I do know that it has increased by at least 70% this year, which qualifies it for bubble status IMO. It's possible it will keep going up, it's also possible it won't. What interests me is that all the "reasons" (with the exception of industrial use") why it will continue to rise are the same things I heard about tech stocks & real estate.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Rapid run ups on any investment like this scare me. When I am holding a stock and it runs up like silver and gold have I dump it right away and look for something else that may be undervalued or the pricing is based on solid balance sheets. Commodity investing is and always will be very risky. A gold or silver deposit the size of Montana could be discovered next Thursday. What would happen to the price then? Too many countries and too many people hold very large quantities of metals and could decide to sell at any time, flooding the market with more product than demand can absorb, thus driving prices down. I am still buying silver, but only in coin form that has a higher numismatic vs. metal value. I am also buying "junk" silver coin if the price is right (30+% below melt) but these finds are getting less and less.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1285 Posts |
As to silver -- Although I am bullish long term, right now you have a lot of hype in here along with fundamentals moving the market. The folks hyping it will bailout in a nano second causing "whip lash" for the uninitiated and un hedged positions.
DNA, Jbuck If you are interested take a look at the fuel cell tech in development using Pt and Pd. It's more a long term trade (3 to 5 years). There is all sorts of geo political issues with these 2 as well. So the recycling, reduction and the mined use of cat's decreases the gains from other areas more than offset the decline. Supply is tight so to say and is being "consumed" (dyodd). There is plenty out there on the net (recent articles).
edit typo - nano
Edited by Ceylon62 12/04/2010 10:50 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Agree at $3 per ounce you buy all the bullion you can find. At $30 per ounce, buy silver only if the coin has high intrinsic numismatic value. MS 64 morgans are probably the sweet spot. If silver doubles, you get a power boost on the valuation. If it falls, you still have a deeply collectable coin
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Funny thing...I bought quite a bit anywhere from $14-$17....and I heard all the same reasons why I shouldn't buy....I'm guessing that a one point, somebody will be right.But until then it's all just a big guess.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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@Maineman750: That's probably because you don't give up information for free if it keep you in business. If you had a "hunch" it would be a bad idea to go around telling people about its benefits.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
Libertad...I once had a "hunch" about a stock....and told all my friends...they wouldn't listen even when it went from $20 to $300...and then to $941.....I'm not rich now...but retired at 51 is pretty good. I guess my point is that logic has little to do with these kind of run ups....there is some logic at play, but most of it is perception.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
958 Posts |
30$ on silver is a good time sell the junk for face and buy Esilver bullion online if you want to play the silver game and dump at a high point
That way if the silver runs up to 50$+ fast and starts to dump you can sell instantly if silver falls from $48 to $16 almost over night like it did in 1980 your not stuck will a bunch junk silver trying to sell it on the way down , and a problem might be you can't find a buyer fast enough by the end of the day and the next day your silver is worth 1/3rd as yestrday
Not saying you have to , but I'm selling some junk silver right now at 21x face to a guy that thinks it will go higher. Im putting the money into online silver , this way he has the junk silver in his hands and I can sell my online silver in one click of a button.
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Valued Member
 United States
327 Posts |
I will take tangible assets thank you. How bout the price today?
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
757 Posts |
oh gosh, now here we go, it's above 30 and the big decisions have to be made...
i just can't decide.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote: it's above 30 and the big decisions have to be made... My internal "great silver decision debater" won't start until it stays above $50/oz.  By that point, all the weak hands and fence-sitters will be out of the game. 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
757 Posts |
well it just plummeted to 28.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just a little profit-taking and a short-lived surge for the dollar. It will all be better by the weeks end.
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