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Interesting vid by Nick (FA)

Will SILVER Prices Above $60 Repeat the 2011 Crash?​

Dec 10, 2025
With the price of silver blasting through $60 an ounce, how far can silver go? I look at many different indicators to get an idea of what price you might want to sell silver. I look back at the silver futures charts from 1980, 2011, and today to see the similarities. Are we in another silver bubble right now?
I also look back at videos from Mike Maloney of GoldSilver.com before the 2011 run up in silver and after when silver sold off. I show what the experts were saying on the way up and what they were saying when the price of silver was crashing. If you followed their advice, you were underwater for about 14 years on your silver purchases.

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Let's see how it works, sold a 1/10 GAE, now how much silver i can get??? $425
 
Fatrat said:
Let's see how it works, sold a 1/10 GAE, now how much silver i can get??? $425
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dealer buy prices for a 1/10 gae are around 2-3% over spot at the time you sell it....of course silver sell prices depends on what your buying should be able to buy silver at spot or below

this dealer makes weekly videos of buy/sell prices that are easy to understand and serves as a good guide when entering a local market

to skip the upfront talk ...just skip to the 7 min mark (fwiw his upfront talk included calling for 70-80silver)
 
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nickndfl said:
We are getting close. Ask me again at $75.
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I understand the economics and sentiment but always theres a fear of a crash in the white metal. Its highly unlikely I know, anyway, 2026 is probably going to be my silver only year as long as it doesn't go to the moon.
 
SilverStacker said:
I understand the economics and sentiment but always theres a fear of a crash in the white metal. Its highly unlikely I know, anyway, 2026 is probably going to be my silver only year as long as it doesn't go to the moon.
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Crash? It won't be like green paper or digits on a flash drive - you'll still have the white metal.

If - and I don't think it will happen - the price goes way down and stays down, it just shows you missed a momentary mania. That the price of this moment is not the realistic price/value.

You still have the metal and it still has some value. If you dollar-cost-averaged in buying it, you wouldn't have lost much.
 
pmbug said:
Mr. Slammy conditioning
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Some things, it just doesn't pay to worry about.

When I drove a cab, I didn't worry about the tips - drivers would go crazy, trying to maximize tips. I found the easy way was just to do the right thing and let it flow. And I found my tips took care of my gasoline - almost to the penny, almost every day.

Some customers tipped, some didn't; and sometimes I could get a bonus handout for doing something like returning a lost purse, with the wallet untouched.

Point is...do not worry about it. I'm convinced of my fundamental precepts: Dollar is going down, PMs are the lifeboat. That I don't catch a momentary mania or nooze-driven panic, is okay with me.

I stuck with silver for 15 years making nothing. Now it's catching up.
 
DOWN/CRASH

There's a 5 yrs ( actually 7 yrs as the 1'st 2 yrs was covered by outflow from ETF's ) Structural Supply Deficit of SILVER. Plus there is no forecast extra mining supply coming online in the sort to medium term.

70% of Silver production is a byproduct of other mining. There is no incentive for those miners to increase there production as Silver is only a minor part of the overall mining. If say a copper miner significantly increased mine production for the Silver, they would also have a lot more copper. If the miner puts that extra copper into the markets, it has the potential to depress the price of copper, which would cancel out the benefit of the extra Silver.

So there's an ongoing Structural Supply Deficit, combined with forecast increasing Industrial Demand. To hide the MIC's increasing silver demand, they stopped reporting the MIC Silver demand a few yrs ago & it's now included in " Industrial " demand. Advanced munitions increasingly use more Silver.

Eg, a Tomahawk missile has around 15 kg of Silver in it's production. Mmm, I thought that a bit strange until I researched. Nearly all that silver is in the Battery. Silver Batteries are the BEST batteries for long term storage. Given life span is 20 to 25 years. Some of those missile will be in storage for a long time so a Stable, Functional battery is critical. There's be A LOT of those types of missile being fired lately so there's demand right there.

Don't be mislead by the false Narrative from the MSM about Silver. Do a bit of digging/research & u will know that the time of the paper market ruling the price of Silver is OVER ! Physical demand is increasing into a supply deficit = HIGHR PRICE for Silver.

How high is that price ? I have know idea. Time & the Market Place will determine the right price of Silver.

Just me ? I will Hold my Stack & buy into any significant pullbacks in Price. I have already done so. In April this year, when the GSR hit 105:1, I swapped 3 oz of Gold for 300 oz of Silver. The GSR has dropped below 70:1 When it's at 45:1 I swap back 150 oz of Silver for 3 oz of Gold. I now have an extra 150 oz of Silver that have increased significantly in Value also.

 
not nit picking here but a true question......do you have any credible sources on the 15kg silver per tomahawk missile? or for any missile system? ......while i have heard claims of such from pundits (and if that is your sourcing that is fine) i have never found any real sourcing for that info.....not arguing with your post just asking if you happen to have sourcing?
 
Mate, I appreciate the question.

All of this sort of info is impossible to verify.

I have no verifiable source's for the 15 kg of Silver Battery claim. But I have found a few sources that claim that this Solid State Silver Batteries are Premium/top of the range. So the Military paying $30,000 + for a battery that has a useable life of 20 - 25 yrs seem not unreasonable. This is in a $4.5 million missile, so battery cost is not an issue.

We all need to question the info that we find. So I do appreciate ur question mate. All I can say is, dig in & try to find the truth for urself.

 
Casey Jones said:
Some things, it just doesn't pay to worry about.


I stuck with silver for 15 years making nothing. Now it's catching up.
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I'm in the same boat. And that probably goes for most of us here. Honestly for me I haven't gained a dime. Ya it's worth a lot more, but just like stocks you don't make any gain (or loss) until you sell. And I'm not planning on selling unless the SHTF. Honestly I haven't bought much over the past 5 years or so. We stacked A LOT between 2014 and 2020. Particularly after we got 100% debt free in 2017. The early years we bought lots of junk. Later on it was almost all bullion and some AU.

Point is you're right. It doesn't pay to worry.
 
LOL......i question everything......
 
^^^^ That is pretty interesting. It makes a few assumptions that could well be true. The artificial narration was annoying when it stumbled on "$30 billion" as "thirty dollars billion", or "3 x" as "three x" instead of "three times."
 
Someone_else said:
^^^^ That is pretty interesting. It makes a few assumptions that could well be true. The artificial narration was annoying when it stumbled on "$30 billion" as "thirty dollars billion", or "3 x" as "three x" instead of "three times."
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Welcome to our Brave New World - where we let Chin algos make our videos for us. Factual content not included.
 
Someone_else said:
^^^^ That is pretty interesting. It makes a few assumptions that could well be true. The artificial narration was annoying when it stumbled on "$30 billion" as "thirty dollars billion", or "3 x" as "three x" instead of "three times."
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AI Slop. U can find better info elsewhere.
 
Well the GSR hasn't been this low since 2014. It does make one think, tho I think its to early to jump.

Having your money in gold would be easier on the nerves but however unlikely I think a GSR of 50 would be to good to pass up.
 
Looking at that chart, would anyone have been sad to sell at thirty? Much less fifty or seventy-five. Spikes are unsettling.
 
My last buy (trading Gold for Silver) was ~$62. I'm done now with trades. Silver at ~$74.50 now. Hoping Mike Oliver and the AI Chinaman are correct in their predictions.
 
Ahhhhhhhh,.... but what about Silver for Gold? I've got some 100 oz silber bars that I'm thinking about trading for some fractional gold.
 
I'm not having too much luck with that so far. Seems like dealers are wary of sky-high silver — they remember 1980 & 2011 price collapse and offer me 3 or 4 bucks below spot on my silver trade and 40 or 50 bucks above spot for the gold I want.
Not a adequate trade as far as I see.
 
That's always a danger for a small retail guy (or big online retail outfit) when the price goes wonky...when price-signals start fading into noise because of manipulations and/or manias. Price jacks; small holders don't believe it's permanent and sell; even before the PM store can back the refiners' truck in, the price collapses and they sell for less than they bought.

That's a good way to become a former gold-and-silver dealer.
 
Yep, I took that bar to the last coin show here in October and tried to flog it there.
The highest offer was $3.00 under spot, about 45 bucks an ounce, the rest were "no thanks" or $4.00 under.
Wonder how many of those dealers remembered humbugging me after the spot zoomed higher the next few weeks.
 
Uh...none.

They were making a prudent choice, with best-available evidence and experience.

And PLENTY of sellers would take that. Unhappily, yes. Volatility and price manias, sudden spikes and drops, don't lead to happy customers. Those who were selling into a run-up basically NEEDED the money - to service their Perpetual Debt, the thousand-dollar car note, the ten-thousand tax bill, the VISA ball-and-chain.
 
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