silversky

7 minutes ago, Roy said:

£300 increase since 2015. Per sov.

I remember paying 230 for a 2005 rocking horse, instead of 190 for a standard sov. (not in 2005)

Thanks.  They must have been badly burnt.  Might be a few new ones right now, but probably waiting for a big jump before getting involved

£470 is wild for a sov.  Hard to believe.

4 bucks left to go now....  Must be a cascade of stops being triggered.  That's why I'm wondering what anyone with an IG account is showing.

YUP silver put on 1.5% in first hour of asian trading session.  

Just now, Agaupl said:

June deliveries are trading above $2400

Do you have an IG account?  Can you see how many are short?

only 9 bucks away now from the 2400  in usd.  

Silver on fire tonight.  30p jump with the open in Asia.  1.5% in less than an hour.

Back in 2020 the high was £22.725,  today's high £22.895.  Last time it was higher was all the way back in 2012 and 2011.  Still a long to go for that.

Hard to see it, but it has exceeded the highs of 2020

I know it's tumbleweeds in here...  but Silver just broke the high from back in 2020!!  Silver chalked up the highest price it's been in 12 years...  

5 minutes ago, Tn21 said:

With current price of au in the £1900 surly everyone on the forum is in the green when it comes to gold bullion 

 

 

That is a good point.  Must be.

1 minute ago, dicker said:

There have been periods where gold has been inert, limp, lifeless   

- 2014

- 2017 to 2018

Why, against a picture of QE I can’t tell you.

Why the fireworks now?  I don’t know.  No one really knows, but enjoy.  

I think it's partly because no one expected it.  That phrase about the "market existing to disappoint the most number of people" really seems to hold some weight sometimes.  The QE times made no sense at all.  It was strange to see vast amounts of nothing created and theoretically used to purchase real money and it not effect the price positively.  And then now, rates not coming down and gold powers on up against the expectations of those who piled in short.  As you say, no one really knows why, best just to enjoy the show.

They're stop hunting...

Anyone got an IG account?  Love to know the percentage short now..

Kaboom

Seems incredible that gold has put on 18% in just under 6 weeks.  And it's done it by breaking the strong inverse correlation with the dollar.  The contrarian in me says to sell a bit and take something off the table, but I really don't know if this might just keep going?  Short term maybe a bit of a pause or a drop has to come eventually, but this year if they do finally cut rates then there's even more fuel for PM's to react positively.

In the meantime its trying for 1900 again. £1894 and rising...

Well it's been an incredible day.  I've been here almost the whole day trying to do other things as well as monitor and comment.  Looking good for the two who declared Up on Wednesday for the poll.....

Just 36 hours ago the consensus here was neutral for the close at the end of this week.  It's certainly been lively since then.  

5 minutes ago, Tipsmart said:

Day job?

1 minute ago, Tn21 said:

Gold monitoring thread in £. 

First time in my stacking career have I witnessed such upward momentum for both au and ag for a sustained period of time.

 

 

Yeah it feels like something has changed a bit.  Just watched a live by peak prosperity, their talking about it changing too.  Inflation still feeding through and dollars and pounds just devaluing away.

And there are people in Asia who have some absolutely stunning large rounds from China which they've been involved with.  All sorts of stuff with people from all around the world.  It really is quite a special forum to be fair.  Monitoring on the other hand...  that's just a bit of fun of course to while away the time, there's nothing serious to it so it tends to drift about a bit.

1 minute ago, OakHeart said:

Yep, fully agree and this is a good thing. Maybe I'm over-interpreting a slight cultural leaning here that perhaps doesn't represent the full community.

Depends which thread you're in.  Some are very collector based or technical, others more banter styled.  Some Jewellery or luxury item centric.  Really depends.  But lots of good little corners to explore with good knowledgeable people.

There are certainly a few openly female members who regularly post.  And some who I've traded with in the trade section who don't declare.  I don't even think about it.

Anyone here got an IG account?  I'm curious to know what the proportion is of IG customers who are short right now.  It must surely have gone down a bit today as they got spanked?  And how many are still holding on for dear life?

Briefly touched 1895 an hour ago.  Five quid off that big 19 handle.  

Yeah not sure about that Maid Marion coin.  It's all oak leaves and undergrowth... and her fingers look like some AI generated nightmare inspired pointy things..  Gwen with her pointy things beats her every day of the week.  Come on RM... get it together!!!  

I mean look at the fingers.  What the heck is going on?