Entries by Peter Brandt

Silver – What’s next short term?

Most chart patterns fail and then morph into larger patterns in a process I call “redefinition.” This is especially true of intraday charts. They are extremely unreliable. With this in mind, here is my best guess on the short-term chart structure of Silver. On the daily chart, a major top is in place. I keep hearing […]

Silver — history repeating itself

Three reasons why Silver might be close to a temporary bottom (within a larger bear market). There will be support at the trendline from August and January lows. Today could end up as a reversal day. Small investor may be washed out — this is needed for a rally to occur. SLV had record volume […]

“Cops raid the brothel” — part 2

I left out an important part of history in yesterday’s post on Silver…that is, the origination of the phrase: “When the cops raid the brothel, everyone is arrested, including the piano player.” I first heard this phrase at the CBOT in early 1980 in direct reference to the Silver market collapse. On the chart below […]

So you want to be a money manager?

There are a lot of you out there on StockTwits. I get more questions via email from traders like you about the managed futures/forex world than about any other subject. It seems that a lot of you aspire to manage money in stocks, futures or forex. While I mostly have been a proprietary trader through […]

Turning a chart on its head

Sometimes a possible top gains clarity if one can flip the chart over and view it as a possible bottom. The easiest way to do this is to print a chart and flip it 180 degrees. But since I cannot do this with a blog post, I did the next best thing — convert a […]

Blogging vs. trading!

 What do the two have in common? An opinion is NOT a position. A position is NOT an opinion. In the final analysis, the two have nothing in common. Yet, be aware that in this blog I sometimes present opinions and market perspectives (and misc. things I find interesting at the moment) and other times venture […]

8 years of global Silver supply changed hands last week

Value of Silver trading equaled 1.5 times the entire value of NYSE trading First off, before I say anything more, let me congratulate those of you who sniffed out the bull market in Silver and have made a killing. Whether your reasons for being a long holder of Silver (bullion, ETFs, producers) prove to be […]