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A 20% Gain in Just Three Months – Trading This Hated MetalBy
Friday, August 3, 2012
You're not going to want to hear this. No one wants to hear it right now...
But we have an incredible opportunity to buy silver.
It doesn't feel good to trade precious metals here. Gold is down more than 10% from its highs this year. Platinum is down 20%. Silver is down about 27%.
But here's the thing: Everyone feels bad about precious metals... Silver in particular. And that's why it's such a big opportunity. Based on history, we can expect to make 20% or more over the next three months... by simply buying silver today.
Better yet, if this situation kicks off a new bull market – like it has three of the last four times – we have the potential to make even larger gains, as much as 100%, in the next six to 12 months.
Let me explain...
As I said, silver is hated right now. Specifically, futures traders speculating on silver are near all-time "short" levels today. As a rule, when futures traders all think the same thing, the market tends to do the opposite.
You can see it in the chart below...
When the blue line is high, silver traders are going long – and we expect silver to fall. When the blue line is low, silver traders are short... The contrarian investment is to buy silver.
 You can see that silver traders are near all-time short levels today. In fact, we've only seen this extreme level four other times in the last seven years.
Every time was a great opportunity to buy silver.
If you bought silver the last four times it reached today's extreme, you'd be up an average of 20% over the next three months. All four trades were good for double-digit gains.
Importantly, three of these four trades signaled the beginning of a fresh, longer-term uptrend in silver. Those signals led to even larger gains over the following months. Take a look...
Of course, we can't know if today is the start of the push to new highs for silver. But 91% average returns in just nine months is enough to get me interested.
You can easily buy into this trade through the iShares Silver Trust (SLV). This simple fund does a fantastic job tracking the silver price.
One thing note... silver is in a real downtrend right now. Longtime DailyWealth readers know we prefer to wait on an uptrend. But with sentiment so negative, it's hard to imagine silver moving much lower from here.
If you do buy today, consider using a tight stop loss at SLV's recent low ($25.63). That's just 3% below today's price. But with 20%-plus upside and only 3% downside, it's an excellent risk/reward opportunity.
Remember, silver moved higher each of the last four times sentiment got this negative. Our average gain was 20% in just three months. And if this kicks off a bigger move in silver, we could make much, much more.
No one wants to hear about it... and the crowd says sell... So we're buying.
Good investing,
Brett Eversole
Further Reading:
Jeff Clark also thinks silver is attractive today. "If it breaks to the upside... we could see it trading at $35 per ounce," he says. Jeff suggests aggressive traders should consider buying here.
Market NotesOUR IPO WARNING IS COMING TRUE Amateur investors are learning a painful lesson…
Longtime readers are familiar with our negative view on initial public offerings (IPOs). The IPO process is dominated by Wall Street banks and other insiders who want to sell shares to the public at the highest possible price. Long-term investors are almost always left "holding the bag" when the company's future results don't match the hype.
Over the past year, no sector has been more hyped-up than "social media." Frenzied investors rushed into the IPOs of companies like Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon… paying ridiculous prices relative to the low (or negative) earnings of these businesses.
Last week, Facebook and Zynga each fell more than 20% in a day after their quarterly results showed slower-than-expected growth. After just a few months, IPO investors who got caught up in the "social media" hype have lost 40%-70%. They've learned an expensive lesson: it rarely pays to buy what Wall Street is hyping.
– Larsen Kusick
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