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SLVETF
iShares Silver Trust
$58.971d +3.4%5d +2.6%settled close · 2026-09-17
β 2.1852w $50–78Shares 566.0MInd. Commodity Contracts Brokers & DealersNYSE Arca since 2006HQ San Francisco, CA
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| Date | Voice | Stance | Venue | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | Bob HaberCIO & Partner, Proficio Capital Partners | Bullish | Forward Guidance | Silver has been in structural primary supply deficit for several years while industrial demand is surging… |
| 2026-08-27 | Quinn ThompsonFounder & CIO, Lekker Capital | Bullish | Forward Guidance | Silver is the high-beta debasement metal that historically follows gold's bull run with a larger spike; the… |
| 2026-08-21 | Jonathan WellumCEO & CIO, RockLinc Investment Partners | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver is the most important conductor in the EV and data center buildout, creating sustained industrial… |
| 2026-08-20 | Luke GromenMacro strategist — founder, FFTT | Bullish | The Monetary Matters Network | Silver benefits from both monetary debasement (like gold) and surging physical demand from US grid buildout… |
| 2026-08-20 | Jim Iuorio | Bullish | Luke Gromen | US Treasury's use of dollar swap lines to prevent Japan from selling its Treasury reserves to defend the yen… |
| 2026-08-15 | Chris WhalenBanking analyst — Whalen Global Advisors | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Silver is a commercial/industrial trade (not just monetary) with supply in terrible short supply relative to… |
| 2026-08-14 | Jonathan WellumCEO & CIO, RockLinc Investment Partners | Bullish | Wealthion | Structural underinvestment in silver supply while demand consistently exceeds production creates a supply… |
| 2026-08-14 | Luke GromenMacro strategist — founder, FFTT | Bullish | The Meb Faber Show | Reversing 20 years of US electricity generation stagnation requires aluminum, stainless steel, copper, and… |
| 2026-08-13 | Michael HowellLiquidity strategist — CrossBorder Capital | Bullish | Macro Voices | Silver is a high-beta precious metals play on the same PBOC liquidity expansion driving gold, and early signs… |
| 2026-08-04 | Mickey MainiFounder, Solstice Laboratory | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Silver consistently follows gold higher during phase transitions while the gold/silver ratio compresses from… |
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| Date | Voice | Stance | Venue | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-01 | Luke GromenMacro strategist — founder, FFTT | Bullish | The Bullion Brief | China's structural precious metals accumulation extends beyond gold to silver as a secondary monetary metal… |
| 2026-07-25 | Chris WhalenBanking analyst — Whalen Global Advisors | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | China is scouring the planet buying physical silver for delivery (not speculation), inelastic commercial and… |
| 2026-07-23 | Hugh HendryFormer hedge fund manager — Eclectica | Bullish | Eurodollar Talk and 2 more | Silver's break above its 40-year 1980 high at $50 ends the longest multi-decade hiatus Hugh has observed; the… |
| 2026-07-21 | Grant WilliamsFinancial writer & podcast host | Bullish | Grant Williams Podcast | Silver will be dragged higher over time by gold's monetary re-rating for the same macro reasons, with the… |
| 2026-07-20 | Brett RentmeesterCIO, Jaggi Family Office | Bullish | Wealthion | AI infrastructure build-out and robotics create durable incremental demand for copper, silver, and steel as… |
| 2026-07-16 | Mark ThorntonSenior Fellow, Mises Institute | Bullish | Wealthion | Industrial users are building silver inventories and the same macro tailwinds driving gold — money supply… |
| 2026-07-10 | Unnamed Speaker | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver has run a six-year physical deficit that would require 10 First Majestic-scale mines starting today to… |
| 2026-07-09 | Jeff CurrieCommodities strategist (ex-Goldman) | Bullish | Wealthion | China's dominance in solar panel manufacturing created structural demand for silver that will persist as… |
| 2026-07-03 | Hugh HendryFormer hedge fund manager — Eclectica | Bullish | Rebel Capitalist Interviews and Hugh Hendry Official | Silver has broken out of arguably the longest bear market in commodity history, mirroring gold's 2010–2011… |
| 2026-06-27 | Chris WhalenBanking analyst — Whalen Global Advisors | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Structural supply deficit combined with irreplaceable industrial demand from the tech sector makes the… |
| 2026-06-20 | Chris WhalenBanking analyst — Whalen Global Advisors | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Annual silver production is structurally short of industrial/tech demand, creating an asymmetric supply… |
| 2026-06-18 | Henrik ZebergHead Macroeconomist, Swissblock | Bearish | Wealthion | Silver's spike was a classic Eiffel Tower pattern (primarily an industrial metal), now in a post-peak… |
| 2026-06-07 | Lyn AldenIndependent macro strategist | Neutral | GoldRepublic Global | After tripling from $18, silver's asymmetry is gone — a 30% drawdown and a 50% further gain are equally… |
| 2026-06-06 | Chris WhalenBanking analyst — Whalen Global Advisors | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Supply-demand dynamics in silver are even more compelling than gold, prompting Whalen to tilt his metals… |
| 2026-05-30 | Chris WhalenBanking analyst — Whalen Global Advisors | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Silver faces structural supply scarcity from wartime destruction of technology assets combined with permanent… |
| 2026-05-23 | Chris WhalenBanking analyst — Whalen Global Advisors | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Silver offers a play on physical metal shortage combined with growing industrial/technology demand, making it… |
| 2026-04-21 | Mark ThorntonSenior Fellow, Mises Institute | Bullish | interview | Same monetary debasement driver as gold but with additional upside from gold-silver ratio normalization… |
| 2026-04-21 | Dr Mark ThorntonSenior Fellow, Mises Institute | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Same structural money-printing and petrodollar-unraveling forces driving gold apply to silver, compounded by… |
| 2026-04-18 | Chris WhalenBanking analyst — Whalen Global Advisors | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Supply disruptions and persistent inflation support precious metals broadly, with silver offering additional… |
| 2026-04-11 | Chris WhalenBanking analyst — Whalen Global Advisors | Bullish | Julia La Roche Show | Silver has broad commercial applications and there is insufficient deliverable supply in major markets, with… |
| 2026-03-27 | Jeffrey GundlachCEO/CIO, DoubleLine Capital | Neutral | Julia La Roche Show | Silver's behavior is dominated by industrial demand rather than monetary demand, making it a less pure… |
| 2026-03-24 | Andy SchectmanPresident, Miles Franklin (bullion dealer) | Bullish | Lacy Hunt | Unprecedented physical demand (record Chinese imports of 470 tons in February 2026 alone, 38-39 million oz… |
| 2026-03-10 | Luke GromenMacro strategist — founder, FFTT | Bullish | Goldfinger Capital | Silver benefits from sovereign debt crisis monetary demand but will underperform gold because extreme silver… |
| 2026-02-26 | Andy Miles FranklinPresident & CEO, Miles Franklin Precious Metals | Neutral | Lacy Hunt | SLV has a grotesque 54 million share short position, is custodied by JP Morgan (convicted silver market… |
| 2026-02-18 | Mike NovogratzFounder/CEO, Galaxy Digital | Bearish | Anthony Pompliano | Silver's chart pattern overlays identically onto prior historical bubble tops (NASDAQ, Nikkei 1989)… |
| 2026-01-31 | Tom Lee (Fundstrat)Co-founder & head of research, Fundstrat | Bullish | Tom Lee | Precious metals are in a cycle resembling 1979-1980 with extreme prior underperformance, surging retail and… |
| 2026-01-29 | Jeffrey GundlachCEO/CIO, DoubleLine Capital | Bullish | interview | Silver moves with gold as a tangible safe-haven amid dollar weakness and declining confidence in central… |
| 2026-01-23 | Tom Lee (Fundstrat)Co-founder & head of research, Fundstrat | Bullish | Tom Lee | Silver is expected to outperform gold in 2026 as part of a broader basic materials mean-reversion trade… |
| 2026-01-20 | Luke GromenMacro strategist — founder, FFTT | Bullish | Natalie Brunell | US government declared silver a critical mineral and the country is moving to a wartime industrial footing… |
| 2026-01-20 | Tom Lee (Fundstrat)Co-founder & head of research, Fundstrat | Bullish | Tom Lee | Silver is expected to outperform gold this year as the ISM recovers and industrial demand drives the metal… |
| 2026-01-16 | Marc FaberEditor, Gloom Boom & Doom Report | Bullish | Meb Faber | Money printing causes sound currencies like silver to rise more than fiat assets, and as ETF holdings remain… |
| 2026-01-14 | Luke GromenMacro strategist — founder, FFTT | Bullish | Joe Burnett | Silver is on the US critical minerals list, China controls the refining supply chain for strategic metals… |
| 2026-01-12 | Joe Terranova (Virtus)Chief market strategist, Virtus | Bullish | CNBC Halftime Committee | Silver is rallying alongside gold as a precious metals hedge against political and monetary instability, with… |
| 2026-01-11 | Grant WilliamsFinancial writer & podcast host | Bullish | Grant Williams Podcast | Silver, alongside gold and other tangible commodities, benefits from an era where trust in financial systems… |
| 2026-01-08 | Marc FaberEditor, Gloom Boom & Doom Report | Bullish | Meb Faber | Like gold, silver and platinum serve as real stores of value superior to paper currencies being printed by… |
| 2025-12-29 | Joe Terranova (Virtus)Chief market strategist, Virtus | Bullish | CNBC Halftime Final Trades | Gold's parabolic move followed by a dramatic overnight reversal on spiking volume signals near-term… |
| 2025-12-27 | Lyn AldenIndependent macro strategist | Bullish | VRIC Media | Silver was structurally undervalued as a hybrid industrial and precious metal benefiting from debasement… |
| 2025-12-24 | Mike NovogratzFounder/CEO, Galaxy Digital | Bullish | Galaxy | Silver is leading the macro trade driven by dollar weakness and Fed easing, currently outperforming gold |
| 2025-12-19 | David RosenbergEconomist — Rosenberg Research | Bullish | Kitco NEWS | Silver benefits from the same central-bank-driven precious metals macro tailwind as gold and should… |
| 2025-12-17 | Mike NovogratzFounder/CEO, Galaxy Digital | Bullish | Coin Bureau | Silver is leading the precious metals race into year-end and seasonally tends to maintain that lead, making… |
| 2025-12-11 | Luke GromenMacro strategist — founder, FFTT | Bullish | interview | Silver benefits from rising electronic/industrial demand, aggressive Chinese buying, and growing monetary… |
| 2025-10-31 | Paul HuetCEO, Americas Gold and Silver | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver is in the first inning of a structural bull market driven by industrial and defense demand, with broad… |
| 2025-10-30 | Mani AlkhafajiPresident, First Majestic Silver | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver's price-to-mining ratio (84:1 vs 7:1 mine supply ratio) implies severe undervaluation — compressing to… |
| 2025-10-28 | Mitch KrebsCEO, Coeur Mining | Bullish | Wealthion | Global silver supply is in its fifth consecutive annual deficit with mine supply having peaked ~5-7 years ago… |
| 2025-10-27 | Jason Katz | Bullish | Fox Varney & Co | Silver shares gold's safe-haven attributes but also carries industrial demand from EV, electronics, and… |
| 2025-10-17 | Gerald CelenteFounder & Publisher, Trends Research Institute / Trends Journal | Bullish | Wealthion | Same dollar-debasement and geopolitical-instability macro forces driving gold higher will lift silver… |
| 2025-10-14 | Paul Tudor JonesFounder/CIO, Tudor Investment Corp | Bullish | Bloomberg Podcasts | Same debasement and fiscal-deficit dynamics driving gold apply to silver, and the small market size of… |
| 2025-10-13 | Michael Dirienzo | Bullish | Wealthion | A structural supply deficit of 117–122 million ounces, surging industrial demand from AI data centers, EVs… |
| 2025-10-09 | David MorganPublisher, The Morgan Report | Bullish | Wealthion | Retail investors now hold over 2 billion of 3.6 billion above-ground ounces, meaning they — not bullion banks… |
| 2025-10-09 | Alan HibbardPrecious Metals & Alternative Money Specialist, GoldSilver.com | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver's 5-year structural supply deficit (industrial demand from EVs, solar panels, and consumer electronics… |
| 2025-10-03 | Scott SchwartzPrincipal, OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners | Bullish | Wealthion | Persistent US government debt accumulation will ultimately weaken the dollar, and silver remains a compelling… |
| 2025-09-30 | Brett RentmeesterCIO, Jaggi Family Office | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver shares gold's no-counterparty-liability property and benefits from the same fiat debasement dynamic… |
| 2025-09-29 | John WaldieSenior Portfolio Manager, SCP Resource Finance | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver broke the key $40 technical level and is now running hard with momentum; the next resistance at $50… |
| 2025-09-17 | Trey ReikManaging Director, SEDA Experts | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver is beginning to outperform gold, which is typical at this stage of a precious metals bull cycle… |
| 2025-09-11 | Jonathan WellumCEO & CIO, RockLinc Investment Partners | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver shares the same debt/fiat debasement tailwind as gold while also benefiting from industrial… |
| 2025-09-09 | Larry LepardManaging Partner, EMA2 | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver has broken out of a decade-long cup-and-handle pattern, faces chronic supply deficits, surging… |
| 2025-09-02 | Alan HibbardPrecious Metals & Alternative Money Specialist, GoldSilver.com | Bullish | Wealthion | A five-year structural supply deficit — industrial demand from EVs, solar panels, and consumer electronics… |
| 2025-08-25 | Dave CollumProfessor of Chemistry, Cornell University | Bullish | Wealthion | Same monetary debasement and inflation thesis as gold; silver held alongside gold as a core speculative… |
| 2025-08-21 | Francis HuntFounder, The Market Sniper | Bullish | Wealthion | Fiat debasement is entering a parabolic phase while physical silver supply is tightening toward 'unobtainium'… |
| 2025-08-14 | Tavi CostaPartner, Crescat Capital | Bullish | Wealthion | Gold-silver ratio at 80, solar and AI-infrastructure industrial demand surging, supply constrained by lack of… |
| 2025-07-31 | Benoit La SallePresident & CEO, Aya Gold & Silver | Bullish | Wealthion | Industrial silver demand (solar panels, defense electronics, EVs, semiconductors) is structurally surging… |
| 2025-07-22 | Rick RuleFormer CEO, Sprott US Holdings | Bullish | Wealthion | In every prior precious-metals bull market, generalist investors attracted by gold momentum eventually rotate… |
| 2025-07-21 | Gerald CelenteFounder & Publisher, Trends Research Institute / Trends Journal | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver shares gold's safe-haven and monetary-metal properties and offers additional upside as a secondary… |
| 2025-07-08 | Peter BoockvarCIO, OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners | Bullish | Wealthion | Global scramble for critical minerals and raw materials creates a structural premium for silver; at $35/oz it… |
| 2025-07-01 | Michael OliverFounder, Momentum Structural Analysis | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver is technically breaking out of its trend of relative underperformance versus gold — key momentum… |
| 2025-06-19 | Chris CaseyManaging Director, WindRock Wealth Management | Bullish | Wealthion | Gold-silver ratio is elevated (~90s vs 60-110 historical range), silver has underperformed gold, and in an… |
| 2025-06-09 | David RosenbergEconomist — Rosenberg Research | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver is playing catch-up to gold's move while also benefiting from industrial demand, offering exposure to… |
| 2025-06-04 | Lobo TiggreFounder & Editor, IndependentSpeculator.com | Bullish | Wealthion | Bullish long-term as a monetary metal benefiting from the same debasement forces as gold, but near-term… |
| 2025-05-21 | David HunterChief Macro Strategist, Contrarian Macro Advisors | Bullish | Wealthion | The gold/silver ratio is historically extended and will roll over in silver's favor as the melt-up continues… |
| 2025-05-19 | Jim RogersChairman, Rogers Holdings | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver lags gold historically during commodity cycles and remains well below its $50 all-time highs, offering… |
| 2025-05-15 | David WargoCEO & Head of Investment Banking, SCP Resource Finance | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver has a dual demand profile as both an industrial metal and a monetary store of value, positioning it to… |
| 2025-05-14 | Tavi CostaPartner, Crescat Capital | Bullish | Wealthion | Gold-to-silver ratio at 100 is historically extreme making silver the cheapest metal on Earth; mean reversion… |
| 2025-04-08 | Lawrence LepardManaging Partner, EMA2 | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver could double from $30 to $60 in 1.5-2 years as a smaller, more volatile monetary-plus-industrial… |
| 2025-04-04 | Tony GreerFounder, TG Macro | Bearish | Forward Guidance | Silver is a sucker bet for investors who want leveraged gold exposure, driven by a 30-year-old conspiracy… |
| 2025-03-12 | Alan HibbardPrecious Metals & Alternative Money Specialist, GoldSilver.com | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver has been in a structural supply deficit for five consecutive years, requiring drawdowns from… |
| 2025-03-06 | John HathawaySenior Portfolio Manager, Sprott Asset Management | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver is underpriced relative to gold at a historically elevated gold/silver ratio, and as a monetary metal… |
| 2025-02-11 | Michael OliverFounder, Momentum Structural Analysis | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver is only 1.15% of the gold price versus a 50-year normal of 2%, and the silver-to-gold spread is on the… |
| 2025-02-05 | Jonathan WellumCEO & CIO, RockLinc Investment Partners | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver faces a structural supply deficit as production fails to keep pace with accelerating demand from EVs… |
| 2025-01-14 | Chris CaseyManaging Director, WindRock Wealth Management | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver mirrors gold as a dollar-debasement and solvency-crisis hedge with more upside velocity, with a target… |
| 2024-12-25 | Rick RuleFormer CEO, Sprott US Holdings | Bullish | Wealthion | The highest-quality silver deposits are in Mexico and Peru; despite real political and social risks, these… |
| 2024-12-09 | Peter SchiffCEO & Chief Global Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital | Bullish | Wealthion | The gold/silver ratio is far above its historical mean, so silver should deliver larger percentage gains than… |
| 2024-11-09 | John CiampagliaCEO, Sprott Asset Management | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver's dual role as monetary hedge and industrial input for solar panels creates structural demand growth… |
| 2024-11-07 | John CiampagliaCEO, Sprott Asset Management | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver benefits from a dual monetary-and-industrial demand structure: solar panel manufacturing consumes… |
| 2024-10-26 | Jim RogersChairman, Rogers Holdings | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver is still down 40-50% from its all-time high while gold is at all-time highs, making it better relative… |
| 2024-10-26 | Rick RuleFormer CEO, Sprott US Holdings | Bullish | Wealthion | The world's highest-quality silver deposits are in Mexico and Peru; political and sociological risks are real… |
| 2024-10-25 | Jim RogersChairman, Rogers Holdings | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver is down 40-50% from its all-time high while gold trades at all-time highs, offering better relative… |
| 2024-10-24 | Larry McdonaldFounder, The Bear Traps Report | Bullish | Wealthion | A fiscal overdose regime ($16T stimulus post-COVID), multi-polar geopolitics, and resurgent inflation are… |
| 2024-10-08 | Chris VermeulenFounder & Chief Investment Strategist, The Technical Traders | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver has formed a rounding bottom and is in an uptrend with room to squeeze toward the 34–36 major… |
| 2024-09-24 | Tavi CostaPartner, Crescat Capital | Bullish | Wealthion | Silver historically follows gold in secular commodity bull markets and is likely to be an even larger… |
| 2024-09-06 | Imaru CasanovaPortfolio Manager, Gold & Precious Metals, VanEck | Bullish | Forward Guidance | The gold-to-silver ratio is ~85 vs a historical norm of ~65–70, implying silver is cheap relative to gold… |
| 2024-04-09 | Mark MobiusEM investor — ex-Franklin Templeton | Bullish | interview | Silver is outperforming gold as the same distrust of central banks and currencies drives commodity-hedging… |
| 2024-04-09 | Mark MobiusEM investor — ex-Franklin Templeton | Bullish | interview | Silver is outperforming gold as the same anti-central-bank, currency-distrust investor shift drives commodity… |
| 2023-10-05 | Luke GromenMacro strategist — founder, FFTT | Bullish | ForexAnalytix | Silver benefits from the same gold-revaluation / currency-debasement thesis as gold, though with smaller… |
| 2022-10-27 | Rob ArnottFounder & chairman, Research Affiliates | Bullish | Excess Returns | Silver provides a more concentrated and targeted inflation hedge than gold, and despite catastrophic YTD… |
| 2022-06-13 | Unknown | Bullish | CNBC Halftime Final Trades | Unusual call buying in SLV August $20 strike signals institutional money returning to silver, and speaker is… |
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Sessions in the last 120 where SLV’s settled options volume ran ≥ 2× its trailing 20-session baseline, or delta-dollar flow ran ≥ 2.5× — 1 of 120 sessions qualified.
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| 2026-08-20 |
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