I'm not selling, but I had a choice to buy, this week. Sold some high-ticket stuff, had a spare high-four-figures kicking around.
Silber seems where the interest lies. Me, I see it as a sort of bubble - you won't see a collapse, not the way you did with Enron or Evergrande; but prices may go down and not go beyond their current highs for a long time. I don't expect this, but, with the chaos and with the Narrative used as fact for investment guidance, you just don't know.
Silver, after all, was always the not-rich-man's gold. The money of merchants. Well...when you hear someone say, they might confiscate gold again...rest assured. They're doing it NOW.
By collapsing the economy, they're forcing the (former) Middle Class to sell what they have, to service the debt they ran up when the Stimmy checks flowed. When online shopping was done to cure the boredom of lockdowns. And now, when Jab-inflicted Brain Fuzz leads formerly sober citizens to use jackass judgment in signing 120-month, $1000/month, car notes.
So...the manipulated markets, the contrived shortages, the deliberate debasement, are forcing the proles to sell.
Silver will be sold in greater quantities. Because silver was all that the Sportsball, Six-Credit-Card, BNPY middle-class debtors could afford.
As they're selling, brokers who buy will find reasons to buy slowly. Driving prices DOWN.
Buying silver at record top prices, invites a...well, a paper loss. It may be some time, many years, before that loss is reversed. And in the meantime, STORING silver is, how shall we say, a task requiring some consideration.
So. That in mind, I bought into my comfort level. Gold. Bought two ounces. A K-rand, two 1/4-oz Ks, and 5 1/10-oz Ks.
Interesting thought: The little pickup I sold (at market rates, now) I bought three years ago, also at (then) market prices. I had to sell five Krugerrands to raise the money - waiting on an insurance settlement, which did come a few months later.
Now, I had the money - not that much less - but all it bought was, two ounces.
That's how much use of that truck cost me - three ounces of gold. Even though the dollar-amount of depreciation isn't that much. How much better I might have been, had I just not bought...had the option, just to not buy.