Crash. It's under 16 $ and I'm in pain.
It cut my appetite for silver for a long time.
Wait until it gets near 10 $, I think it won't go below. But what if it does?
Pain? You should be ECSTATIC!
Waiting until prices recover means you either
lose money in the long run or you
leave most of your profits on the table for someone else.
The silver/gold ratio is currently 72:1, an unsustainable ratio historically. When silver and gold were used as money before 1965, the ratio was 16:1, which is a TYPICAL monetary ratio for them. Sooner or later gold and silver will again be monetized and when that happens silver will skyrocket. Based on current gold prices ($1200/toz), that would make the value of silver $75/toz, probably far below the value when monetized. Don't you think $16/toz is a BARGAIN???
That does NOT mean that silver will explode to the upside tomorrow, next week, or even next year. What it does mean that you have the OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME to accumulate wealth at a VERY CHEAP price! Instant wealth does NOT happen to most of us, but by passing up opportunities to cheaply increase wealth DOOMS us to poverty in the long term.
NO ONE CAN TELL YOU WHERE THE BOTTOM IS UNTIL
AFTER THE BOTTOM HAS HAPPENED! It is then TOO LATE to buy at the bottom, meaning that you CHASE higher and higher prices until you go broke. That is essentially what the Hunt brothers (one died recently) did in the 70's and they went bankrupt bigtime.
It is much better to chase LOWER and LOWER prices. That GUARANTEES that you will ALWAYS buy at the BOTTOM.
Decide what kind of silver that you want and set yourself up a fund to buy it.
Do one of two things (examples):
1) Buy $100 worth of silver (or whatever) ON THE
SAME DAY OF EVERY MONTH, regardless of price. The lower the price, the more silver you can buy for your money.
2) Buy 5 American Eagles (or whatever) ON THE
SAME DAY OF EVERY MONTH, regardless of price. The lower the price, the cheaper you are buying silver.
Either way, over the long term, you will ALWAYS build wealth. Chasing prices as they go up DEPLETES wealth.
Personally, I would go with #2 and buy one roll of junk silver quarters on the 15th of every month (
Current price here).