Viking
Yellow Jacket
Upside potential better for Silver going forward? Thoughts?
Would you sell Gold for Silver now?
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Bottom Feeder
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My feelings would be to wait for the ratio to fall from 78:1 to 40:1 or so and trade silber for gold.
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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.
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.
Viking
Yellow Jacket
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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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.
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.
metalsandminers.substack.com
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.
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.
Viking
Yellow Jacket
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
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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For silver?
Just curious to know what was the vig, as in what price for 1oz gold vs price/amount of silver?