Would you sell Gold for Silver now?

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If silver.bumps into the high and then retreats, then I would sell ETFs but not physical.
 
Looks.like Au,Ag & Pt are taking off in China in the overnight Gold looks.like it will retest new highs if it holds on Friday's close.
 

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With gold at record highs, Sharifah is doing the unexpected: cashing out and moving into silver. Is this a savvy move or a risky bet that could backfire?


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I'd never sell my silver. First off the ratio when I'd even consider it isn't going to happen because economies and fiats are all going to hell. Secondly gold will always be a stable, valuable store of wealth. At least thats what the last thousand years or so have taught us. But the subcontinent has different cultural connections to silver. Its more then just a metal to them.

Not that I have much of a stack compared to a lot of you guys but the one I do have is kind of gold heavy in terms of worth. I'm waiting on a 1/2 oz to be delivered now and theres just so much worth in these itty bitty gold coins. I sleep better at night knowing I have that gold in my stack.
 
SilverStacker said:
I'd never sell my silver. First off the ratio when I'd even consider it isn't going to happen because economies and fiats are all going to hell. Secondly gold will always be a stable, valuable store of wealth. At least thats what the last thousand years or so have taught us. But the subcontinent has different cultural connections to silver. Its more then just a metal to them.

Not that I have much of a stack compared to a lot of you guys but the one I do have is kind of gold heavy in terms of worth. I'm waiting on a 1/2 oz to be delivered now and theres just so much worth in these itty bitty gold coins. I sleep better at night knowing I have that gold in my stack.
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The question was would you sell Gold for Silver. Or buy Silver with your Gold.
 
I have thought long and hard about this. The ratio would need to be EXTREME for me to actually pull the trigger.
This would be too good to resist:
Sell gold, buy silver at or near 120 / 1.
Sell silver, buy gold at or near 30 / 1.

Dollar wise, my stash is fairly even. Approximately 55% silver and 45% gold. (Dollar value, not ounces.)

I do think that silver has more upside potential than gold. Silver gets consumed, gold does not. Solar panels, NiCad batteries, computers, and automobiles all consume silver that never gets recycled and the world makes and scraps millions of them.
Many miners report that silver comes out of the ground at 9 to 1 or 12 to 1 compared to gold, so should silver be priced similarly?
Our government set the gold to silver price at 16 to 1 from 1795 to 1933. There was good reasons for this.

And recently, China and USA have quietly declared silver a strategic and critical mineral and both are in stockpile mode.
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The Strategic Silver Stockpile: Why the U.S. and China are Both Competing for and Stockpiling Silver Right Now

A quiet arms race has begun, but the weapon is not a missile or a tank.
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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.
 
Well, I traded out of a bunch of my Gold. Hard to part with. I know bankers/rich prefer gold, but it really doesn't have a use value like other metals. China is restricting rare and critical metals now too. It will take years to replace that capability.

Our experiences as stackers does flag caution as we have seen large swing with Silver (and other metals), whereas precentage wise, not so much with Gold.

But I'm betting "this time is different." I know I'm now more of a speculator. Fingers crossed. Worst case, it ain't going to zero. LOL
 
Viking said:
Well, I traded out of a bunch of my Gold. Hard to part with. I know bankers/rich prefer gold, but it really doesn't have a use value like other metals. China is restricting rare and critical metals now too. It will take years to replace that capability.

Our experiences as stackers does flag caution as we have seen large swing with Silver (and other metals), whereas precentage wise, not so much with Gold.

But I'm betting "this time is different." I know I'm now more of a speculator. Fingers crossed. Worst case, it ain't going to zero. LOL
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Not wishing you ill...but this time it's different, in moar waze den one.

For one thing, if this stuff really becomes the basis of trade, it will be because of economic collapse.

Which means all those data centers and solar-panel plants, are suddenly not relevant.

The metal that will matter most, is lead. Steel will also be important - even now, we don't really make much, and the institutional knowledge is becoming lost. China will be on the moon, for all it will matter. They collapse when the dollar collapses and the purchasers for all their shoddy crap, suddenly cannot buy anything, nor can they ship anything.

So. I'm betting that the memory that gold is more valuable than silver, will hold. There won't be an industrial use for EITHER, for two generations after a SHTF event.
 
I swapped 3oz of Gold for 300 oz of Silver when the GSR was 105:1 ( 5 in the 105:1 was the Premium ) in April 2025.

When the GSR goes below 45:1 I will swap 150 oz of Silver for 3 oz of Gold.

I will have my original 3 oz of Gold back & will have gained 150 oz of Silver that has appreciated in price also.

Revision to the Mean is real & does work given a long enough time.

I have the time to Wait.

:cool:
 
I am heavily overweight in silver. When the GSR hits 40 or so, I might start rotating (trading/swapping) some silver for gold. Not all at once, but at that point I would consider starting to rebalance my metals.
 
Casey Jones said:
Not wishing you ill...but this time it's different, in moar waze den one.

For one thing, if this stuff really becomes the basis of trade, it will be because of economic collapse.

Which means all those data centers and solar-panel plants, are suddenly not relevant.

The metal that will matter most, is lead. Steel will also be important - even now, we don't really make much, and the institutional knowledge is becoming lost. China will be on the moon, for all it will matter. They collapse when the dollar collapses and the purchasers for all their shoddy crap, suddenly cannot buy anything, nor can they ship anything.

So. I'm betting that the memory that gold is more valuable than silver, will hold. There won't be an industrial use for EITHER, for two generations after a SHTF event.
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SKULL said:
Never is a REALLY long time :unsure:
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Indeed it is but at my age "never" is not that long from now. Most of all when counting medical conditions into it. Dont get me wrong, I'm not planning on keeling over an hour from now on the exercise bike. But nobody ever does. And I hauled enough stiffs on that wagon to learn death is the ultimate reality and nobodys escaping it. I'm the last one standing in my original clan as well so I'm a realist.

And what conditions would it take to sell my gold and what are the chances those are going to happen ? Most of all for a History guy who has studied Au as the ultimate determination of wealth ? I learned that as a young troop in the 3rd word while still in my teens. To bad I was more interested in drinking and 'hoing to pay more attention. I just counted my stack $-wise and gold holds the higher current worth and I just dont see that changing in the near future. It will tighten nicely, I love my Ag and believe in its future, but not enough to sell my gold. Last month I bought a AGE, a pre-33 ST. Gaudens, and a 1/2 oz medallion, and it was like Moses parting the Red Sea. Lord that shiite is expensive. I'm down for the count.

I just dont have enough gold to spare in the first place. You guys holding much more then I think its an option.
 
I sold some SILJ today near the top. I sold some AGQ earlier in the year which I should have kept.

I am raising cash to add to GDXU around $195.

I have sold zero PMs, but have been giving a step-son a few ounces of silver to stimulate interest in the product in hopes he catches the fever.
 
nickndfl said:
I sold some SILJ today near the top. I sold some AGQ earlier in the year which I should have kept.

I am raising cash to add to GDXU around $195.

I have sold zero PMs, but have been giving a step-son a few ounces of silver to stimulate interest in the product in hopes he catches the fever.
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Nick I hand out 1921 XF MSD's as gifts especially to the kids in the family. I tell them it was considered the "Lucky coin from back in the Cowboy days" LOL. They are very nice coins and its my hope it will teach them to value money, to save it, and to appreciate our History and being an American. Its a very important start, I hope, to their interest in America's rich numismatic History with a very nice example of one of our finest coin designs.

I give it to them in a nice capsule "popping" in a black gasket and with a plastic stand. I just handed out three to nieces and nephews on Thanksgiving.
 
Do they get excited over the 1921s? How about handing out some 1895-S in MS-64? Watch the kids smiles light up!!!

When I was a kid the 1921s were undesirable believe it or not just like M1 Garands and carbines. Nobody wanted 1921 Morgan's. They went straight to the smelter. Peace dollars were more disliked, then 40% Ike's. The most hated dollar was the Susan B. Anthony.
 
@nickndfl I'm in AUS & have been trying to talk to people here about our past Silver Coins ( before we switched to Decimal Crap ) I was 4 yrs old when AUS switched to Decimal, but the Pre-Decimal Silver coins circulated for a few yrs, so I do remember them in my hands 😁

I talk to people about those coins & Silver today & within seconds I can see the glazed over look in their eyes as their thinking about, phone/next meal/what's on TV/YouTube/ etc 😞

Sometimes I will hand them a 1 oz .999 fine Kookaburra 😲 their eyes flash & they are surprised by the weight of it. Yet as soon as they hand it back, they eyes glaze over again 😞

I'm sadden by how far people have become removed from " Real Money " GOLD/SILVER !

Stackers appreciate the Value embedded in Gold/Silver, but we are such a small % of the Public. That is what worries me as I see the approaching Financial/Monetary reckoning that will devastate those that have their whole lives tied to Fiat Currency & Debt.

So I just Hold & Stack when I can :cool:
 
Viking said:
The question was would you sell Gold for Silver. Or buy Silver with your Gold.
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in my opinion currently the GSR favors silver so in a no premium swap world yes i would do a gold for silver swap....

but it is not a no premium world and i have noted in several trips to local shops that most will have lots of silver and very little gold .....which makes me believe swapping silver back to gold might be difficult just due to local stocks, so given the available stock of gold and the premium issues, my strategy has been to just add the metal the GSR favors instead of actually doing a swap,

all that being said i did do a small gold for silver swap about this time last year with a new to me lcs mainly just to see how smooth the process would be and it was a smooth process and it worked out great value wise

jmho
 
SilverStacker said:
Nick I hand out 1921 XF MSD's as gifts especially to the kids in the family. I tell them it was considered the "Lucky coin from back in the Cowboy days" LOL. They are very nice coins and its my hope it will teach them to value money, to save it, and to appreciate our History and being an American. Its a very important start, I hope, to their interest in America's rich numismatic History with a very nice example of one of our finest coin designs.

I give it to them in a nice capsule "popping" in a black gasket and with a plastic stand. I just handed out three to nieces and nephews on Thanksgiving.
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back in the 90s i picked up a lot of Isle of man 1/10 gold ...that had different breeds of cats and dogs on them ....i have taken to giving them to my grandkids on birthdays and Christmas .....they love the animals stamped on them till mom n dad put them in their safes for the future LOL....
 
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