Silver: Technically Speaking

Is silver ready for a trading range after a virtually straight up 5 week advance? Silver has rallied from $12 to $16 since late April, and looks like it could be ready to possibly make a base up here with $14.50 as the low and $16.50 as the high. June 3^rd saw silver experience its worst day since April, dropping from an overnight Asian market high of $16.20 to $15.30 towards the end of the NY trading session hours later.

The sharp uptrend is in tact if silver holds above the $15.20 area in the next few days, and then continues an advance back towards $16, otherwise, it might be headed for a perfectly healthy basing session as it braces for its eventual march to the Mar 08 highs above $20…we think…and hope. Watch it closely these next few days for more clues.

Silver Chart, Daily, 6 Months

As the son of a stockbroker, I got into stocks during college, ultimately reading Jack Schwager’s ‘Market Wizards’ book senior year, which really opened my eyes to trading and investing in other asset classes. I worked on the Pacific Stock Exchange for most of the 1990’s as an assistant specialist and eventually a specialist. I developed a very contrarian trading style, searching out closed end funds and micro-cap stocks to trade. Trading for almost 20 years now, it wasn’t until Dec 07 that a friend turned me on to silver, after I queried him about gold’s prospects during the early months of the credit bubble bursting. The next month I made my first purchase of silver bullion, and have followed the silver market closely ever since. I am also a huge sports fan, and contribute to the website www.sportscity.com with a general sports blog (Speedburner on Sports), a tennis blog (Todd’s Tennis Takes), and NBA commentary (NBA Daily Awards).

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