The silver crash on Friday, 30 January 2026, was a violent deleveraging event that effectively shattered every pillar supporting the $120 price point. The 31.3% collapse in a single session represents the worst daily percentage decline in the history of silver trading, eclipsing even the infamous “Silver Thursday” crash of 1980. According to Dow Jones …
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The 2026 Silver Crisis: Strategic Overview
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The silver market in early 2026 has become a place of extreme confusion for the average trader. You might see a headline price of $126 in Shanghai while your local broker quotes $111, and wonder if there is free money to be made. There isn’t. What looks like a simple arbitrage opportunity is actually the …
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The Mechanics of Money: Unravelling the Japan-US Debt Spiral
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Global finance often feels like a closed loop of jargon, but beneath the complex terminology lie simple, brutal mechanics of supply and demand. Nowhere is this clearer than in the current standoff between the Japanese Yen and the US Treasury market. This post deconstructs the “conundrums” of sovereign debt and currency intervention, using practical analogies …
Time – friend or foe?
Several times over the last year, I’ve had conversations with others about finding new or different ways of making money. Invariably the limitation of time availability comes up i.e. time to learn new skills, gain new knowledge etc. Some of those people were interested in learning about investing or trading (which are different concepts) – …
The loser’s game
The news has been out from August 2018 that the European Securities and Management Agency (ESMA) has compelled all brokers (subject to its jurisdiction) to reveal their statistics on the percentages of losing trader accounts. See informative article headed, “ESMA Regulations Reveal: Where CFDs Traders Lose the Most“. The reported percentage of losing accounts ranged between …
Bitcoin: Investor, trader, gambler or idiot?
In the last few months we’ve received inquiries from several about Bitcoin and various similar things, often referred to as cryptocurrencies. In essence many of these folk are the ones who missed out on making millions by not buying a few Bitcoin when it was dirt cheap. Now, they don’t want to make the same …
