(Washington D.C. – February 5, 2019) Last year, the silver market faced a challenging environment which was reflected in a muted price performance. Preliminary estimates point towards a minor 0.3 percent increase in total supply whereas demand contracted 3 percent. A slowing Chinese economy, coupled with rising U.S. interest rates, an equity market bull run, and global trade tensions, affected the price performance across many markets, including gold and silver. This year, we expect the sentiment to be more supportive for the silver market. The start of 2019 has already proven to be good for silver investors. The U.S. Mint for example, sold 12 percent more American Eagles in January compared to January 2018. In addition, the expected slowdown in the U.S. FED rate hiking cycle should also benefit silver, which in comparison to gold, has a very attractive price point based on the high gold:silver ratio at around 82. Against this backdrop, the Silver Institute provides the following insights on 2019 silver market trends.

Silver is coming back into focus as the charts show a bit of upward movement with price action and potential brewing for some chart breakouts. This post starts with a look at the charts of Silver spot metal and then some popular US silver-based stoks / ETFs. With all of these charts, I'm on the lookout for any momentum-based trend line breakout (meaning an uptick over 20 for the ADX and +DMI) along with a move back above the weekly Cloud and on a volume spike.

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