Silver Bullion Price Chart Deep Dive | Louis of SmaulGld

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Louis returns to Metals & Markets this week, and we take a deep dive into the silver charts and a whole lot more...

Louis Cammarosano of Smaulgld interviewed by James Anderson of SD Bullion

Both and silver and gold prices appear to have been building further support this week.

The silver spot price was up a couple of cupronickel dimes, closing around $16.45 oz while the gold spot price appears to be ending the week around $1,420 fiat Federal Reserve notes per troy ounce in derivative contract trading.

The Gold-Silver Ratio continues to fall ending this week just over the 86 level. In the full context of this historic ratio, silver is still extremely cheap to gold at the moment, although it has been gaining a little in value versus the yellow metal over the last few weeks.

This week, we have a returning guest, Louis Cammarosano of SmaulGld.com.

Louis comes on to discuss several key long term silver derivative, and silver bullion-related price charts.

As well, we will end the conversation covering an excellent book which Louis turned me on to this past spring. The subject of the book, of course, delves much to do with silver and its history in bringing China and Asia into a globalized trade that centered through modern-day Mexico and Bolivia even.

You will want to stick around until the end for some highlights of "The Silver Way."

See if you can catch the exact moment, mid-podcast as Louis transforms into for him, what I would describe as a raging silver bull.

Welcome to this week's Metals & Markets gold silver podcast, I am your host James Anderson of SD Bullion.

With us, this week is a returning guest, the proprietor of the SmaulGld.com website, Mr. Louis Cammarosano.

1a)Comex Silver Price Chart 1970 - 2019

COMEX - 1974 US Treasury Cables that describe the London meeting.

Simply search Gold Prices 1974 to learn more about the sordid details.

You can see the COMEX silver rule change to pull the rug from under the Hunt Brothers leveraged long position effectively ruined that trading pit's sentiment for about two decades to follow.

Of course, there were some small mini silver price run-ups in the 1980s, one which we have covered recently on this silver podcast but effectively silver was left for dead until Warren Buffett came into silver largely in 1997-1998.

1b)

Comex Silver Price and Trading Volume Values 1970 - 2019

Daily trading volume middle section, you can see we just touched the 2nd all tie high in terms of daily contract trading volumes over 250k in one day.

Big underlying shifts may be occurring?

2a)

Transparent Silver Bullion Inventories Worldwide

Context of 1 billion ounces of silver in supply and demand.

Comex in blue, largest silver ETF call SLV in key lime green.

Inventory levels took off with the founding of SLV, in 2006. And on the COMEX since JPMorgan started stashing post-2011 (Brink's NY has also come on of late).

2b)

Unlike GLD the SLV silver bullion inventory has stayed relatively flat

That large accumulation phase starting in early 2009 preceded the last major silver run.

SLV, unlike GLD, doesn't have huge amounts of bullion flowing out of it to meet growing eastern demand.

2c)

Silver Bullion Physical Flow Context

Most of that silver went into the SLV, which only APs can take deliveries from.

50 million ounces mostly going into SLV this past month is more than the US Mint's record Silver Eagle sales volume over an entire year's time.

3)

Retail Silver Bullion Coin Buyers / Sellers still Mixed

New vs lower premiums Backdated coins still making new US Mint coins sales totals look weak and physical bullion premiums are still under duress as weak hands sell into spot price strength.

For example, anyone reading this. Which would you rather buy?

2019 American Silver Eagle Coins

Backdate Random Silver Eagle Coins

4)

East vs West Silver Prices Full Fiat Currency Era

I was just keying on the timeframe of the 2008 financial crisis $21 to $9 spot east to west spot price divergence, 2009 into 2011 beatdown of silver shorts, in relation to 2015 until now.

The next large silver short beatdown could be building.

The dislocation of east vs west silver prices often signals an eventual snap back rally to come.

Clearing and maintaining silver spot prices above $21 oz. It will be interesting to see this chart then especially the directions of all three colored lines (blue, black, and of course most important, the red spot price line).

5)

"The Silver Way" BOOK DISCUSSION Takeaways

Louis did a full podcast on this interesting 84-page book: CLICK HERE FOR THE PODCASTS WEBPAGE AT SMAULGLD

Andr?(C)s de Urdaneta ( early 1500s explorer, figured out how to sail from Manilla to Mexico without dying ).

Sailors would take part in the back and forth journey for about 350 pieces of eight Spanish silver coins.

The highest-paid merchant of these trips of slightly less than one year long west to east, back to Mexico trip could make up to 18,000 pieces of eight (about 14,800 troy ounces of silver).

Enough in one go according to historical documentation, to set a man on easy street for the rest of his days.

Thanks for visiting us here at SD Bullion.

About the Author/Interviewer James Anderson has a BA in finance from Loyola University New Orleans. He has both worked and invested in the physical investment grade bullion markets prior to the 2008 global financial crisis. James' twitter is @JamesHenryAnd and he has authored SD Bullion's complementary 21st Century Gold Rush Book.

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