Silver Rally Will Not Cause Gold/Silver Ratio To Drop To 15:1 – Even 30:1 – Even 45:1. Here’s Why (+4K Views)

The gold/silver ratio has rather shockingly continued to rise steadily, and this month it has even broken above 90:1…but don’t expect some kind of automatic reversion of the gold/silver ratio down to dramatically lower levels in favor of silver just because the current ratio seems very high. It is much more likely that future silver rallies will peak and top out around a gold/silver ratio in the range of 50:1. Here’s why.

In fact, ever since the precious-metals rally ended in the summer of 2016, gold has outperformed silver so steadily and consistently that the gold/silver ratio chart is almost perfectly smooth in its ascent.

In the short term…there may be a tradable bounce back for silver…basically a corrective rally that compresses the gold/silver ratio back to its 50-day (87.5:1) or 200-day moving average (85:1)…[but] the timing of such a trade is fraught with risk. As you can see in the chart above, the trend has been running against such a trade for three years now and there is no guarantee that gold will not continue to outperform silver for the next month or more, and the gold/silver ratio could continue to rise and get even more overextended. Who knows? It might not be until the ratio gets close to or touches the psychologically significant 100:1 ratio that we finally get the bounce back corrective rally in silver.

In the medium and long term, however, the global economic and industrial slowdown…does not favor silver over gold…[as] silver is not purely a “safe haven” precious metal asset in the same way that gold is. Demand for silver declines when global economic and industrial activity are slowing down rather than growing. In the Great Depression, gold held its value but silver did not. The gold/silver ratio soared up to as high as 100:1 back then as well…

Right now the global economy, the U.S. economy, and stock markets are up in the air: We are not yet heading immediately into recession, especially not in the U.S., but more and more signs of economic slowdown are showing up all around us…so the sentiment of global investors and financial markets already embodies fears [of] an approaching economic downturn and recession…over the next 12 to 24 months. This kind of an environment is not conducive to a booming industrial market demand for silver.

Silver will be more likely to perform better in the aftermath and recovery from the next recession, when interest rates are still low and central bank policy is still very accommodative, but when global economic activity is picking up again. That is the time period to look at silver, along with copper and other industrial base metals…

[In the] long-term…the trend (for the past 150 years) has been for silver’s value to decline relative to gold’s value [so] it is going to take a lot to overcome [such] a trend…[Below] is a chart of the gold:silver price from 1970 to the present:

I…

• am rather skeptical that the gold:silver ratio will return to ancient or classical 19th century levels like 10:1 or 15:1…
• doubt that the next big silver price rally, whenever it takes place, will even bring the gold/silver ratio down near 30:1, like we saw in 2011,
• suspect it is much more likely that future silver rallies will peak and top out around a gold/silver ratio in the range of 50:1, or maybe temporarily 45:1, as we saw in the late 1990s or the mid-2000s (see the chart above) and I
• expect that the typical long-term average for the gold/silver ratio will reset to around 75:1 or so, while oscillating in a range from 50:1 to 100:1…This, I think, is a more realistic long-term perspective for gold and silver investors.

Conclusion

…Do not expect some kind of automatic reversion of the gold/silver ratio down to dramatically lower levels in favor of silver just because the current ratio of 90:1 seems very high…Even when a silver rally finally arrives, it may not bring the long-term gold/silver ratio any lower than 75:1, although of course temporary spikes and oscillations in both directions are always possible.

In other words, if gold rallies to $1,700/ounce over the next year or two, I think the silver price is more likely to remain in the $17-$25/ounce range, rather than soaring to the $30-$50/ounce range.

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