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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   2632 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 1, 2026

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Is right now (after a historic crash) a good time to buy in on silver and gold? The underlying logic still seems sound (needed for electronics, inflation/weakening USD, increased international drama)

Silver has historically crashed all the way back to where it was three weeks ago. Actually, two weeks ago, now that I check. We got as low as a month. I would be careful!

The underlying logic still seems sound (needed for electronics, inflation/weakening USD, increased international drama)

This is a good thesis for why silver should be priced higher than some assumed baseline where we needed less electronics and had less international drama. It's not necessarily a good thesis for why silver should be higher than it is now. Maybe that's already priced in. Maybe it's priced in five times over. How do you know? You should either have a view on the underlying economics / value of the thing, where your decision to buy or sell depends directly on the price, or acknowledge that the last month of price movements have little to do with underlying facts and everything to do with narratives and approach it mostly like you would a shitcoin. In which case, sure, maybe it dumped a little to hard, the narrative still has energy, it was primed for a little more pump when you posted that. But it's important to know why you're buying!

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