Weiß nicht, ob hier schon darauf hingewiesen wurde: Douglas Kanarowski hat einen neuen Silberartikel geschrieben.
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ONE DOZEN SILVER INVESTOR MISTAKES
by Douglas Kanarowski
January 6, 2005
My first three essays were an attempt to help the general investment community understand the evolving silver story. [See] This essay is specifically directed at today’s silver investor.
By and large, the silver investment community is blessed with several first-class spokesmen and top-notch professional analysts. Among those more actively carrying the silver torch are: Mary Anne and Pamela Aden, Ted Butler, Doug Casey, Jim Dines, Jason Hommel, David Morgan and Jim Puplava. I read virtually everything in print about silver and on occasion I think I see a few problems and note a few omissions, thus the following.
1. USING TECHNICAL ANALYSIS …. IS WRONG!
Technical analysis usually plays a major part in most of my investment decisions. I rely on TA about 98% of the time. But the important question here is, “What about the remaining 2%?” In other words, “In what circumstances should technical analysis not be trusted?” Take a moment and give it some thought. Done thinking? My answer is, “in a market where both a sustained and large price distortion has taken place.” In my view, looking at a technical chart of silver’s price history is akin to looking at one of those pre-Columbus flat-maps of the world. Both contain just enough sketchy information to give them the appearance of truth. In reality, both are an illusion. They are fraudulent. Leave it to Professor Edga Macation to remind us that if the basic laws of supply and demand are not controlling the market price of the product, then the data inputs used to construct a price chart are also erroneous, resulting in an erroneous chart. Duh! In other words (stated in reverse), if we really had a free market in silver, the chart would look nothing like the silver charts that “the experts” pour over today …. plotting imaginary moving averages, identifying resistance levels and drawing fictional uptrend channels to name a few. More below.
2. PLACING TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON “OUNCES IN THE GROUND.”
Certainly, knowing the number of silver ounces in the ground is an “important” piece of information in assessing a silver project. However, knowing the answers to many other key questions are also “important.” For example: What country is the deposit in? Geopolitical risk? What did the property cost? Why did the other guy sell it? At what cost? Proximity to infrastructure? How deep is it? Open pit or underground? Ore grades? Recovery percentages? By-product credits? Cost to build the mine? What royalties are in place? What is the all-in cost of production? Who are the principals running the show? Etc, etc, etc. I recently read a promotion for a mineral deposit that had some meaningful “ounces in the ground.” In reading the “fine print” I discovered that the “wonder deposit” was located 350 air miles from the nearest small town where you might be lucky to buy a screwdriver. I not only became very un-interested in the property, I also became very un-interested in the company and the people that were so loudly promoting this package. To make it simple, instead of “ounces in the ground,” I suggest, “Will the prospect likely become an economically productive mine?” Not an easy question to answer. However, if you can answer my question, you probably have done enough homework to make a fairly sound investment decision.
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Oh,oh, das geht gegen Jason Hommel!
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Ein etwas skeptischerer Artikel über Silber von Willis:
Silver As An Investment: My .0031 Ounces Worth
J. Kent Willis, AGAPI Financial LLC, 2005
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/willis011805.html