Everyone is talking about the incredible price move in silver on April 18, 2018. Now, everyone wants to know what’s next. Here is our take on the Silver trade and what you need to know.

All the technical and price valuation indicators regarding the relationship of Gold to Silver have been set for many months telling traders that Silver is the clear leader in any price advance in metals.

Current open positions show that a relatively strong short bias has been in place in Silver for a few months. This adds to the potential of a massive short squeeze rally playing out over the next few weeks/months. Additionally, as greater fear enters the markets, Gold and Silver will likely advance quite substantially.

Technically, Silver has entered a new phase of trend on April 11, 2018 with a new price high that broke previous high price levels. This indicated that Silver may attempt a price breakout with a new bullish trend. Additionally, a convoluted FLAG formation completed near that same date and price began to oscillate between $16.00 & $16.65 – retesting support and resistance levels before the breakout new high on April 11. Our longer-term analysis, which we’ll illustrate in the last chart of this series, was clearly showing us this recent price rotation was the setup of a Wave 3 price advance and we just needed to be prepared for it.

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This, more detailed technical chart below, illustrates the April 11 new price high breakout as well as the rotation of the primary technical indicators near this April 11^th date. Even though we didn’t have any clear closing price advance above technical resistance (near $16.80), we began to see upside pressure building that convinced us the time for the breakout was nearing.

Another key factor to keep in mind is that we had yet to see any real price advance with higher volume – a key element of any sustained price advance. Even as of today, we are seeing the first larger volume day with a moderate price advance. We do not consider this “technical confirmation of any sustained upside move” yet and we are still waiting for a high volume day with an accelerated upside price advance.

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This, final, Weekly Silver chart below shows a clearer picture of what we are expecting to play out over the next few weeks and months. The $17.20 closing price on April 18^th was technically a “confirmed price breakout” and established a new bullish trend in Silver. Right now, $17.45 is critical resistance and any closing price advance above this level will confirm an advance to near $18.35 (which will likely be very quick). $18.35 is the current upper resistance zone that price MUST breach in order to advance higher.

All this analysis is based on Fibonacci price rotation theory which indicates that price will always attempt to establish new higher highs or lower lows. Thus, given the new bullish price trend, these upper resistance zones become targets for the future price advance in Silver.

We would like to add that any price rotation where price drops near $16.75 or lower, yet stays above $16.00, should be considered a “Buy Zone”. This range is currently acting as price support and any retest of this range will likely result in a solid “buy entry opportunity”.$16.00 is currently our hard support level, think of it like the water level in the pool. This means any price rotation below $16.00 would cause us to become much more cautious of any future price rally. The ultimate recent low, near $15.65 would have to be breached before we would consider this new bullish trend ENDED or OVER.

Assuming we get additional higher volume price advanced in the near future and the upper resistance targets are hit and breached, our immediate upside objective is $21.25 and further upside targets can be identified as we do more detailed research. The upside potential of this Silver trade is immense and could last many months or well into 2019 or longer.

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