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Silver rallies initially, but then rolled over on Wednesday

By:
Christopher Lewis
Updated: Apr 5, 2018, 05:15 GMT+00:00

Silver markets rallied initially during the trading session on Wednesday but found the $16.50 level be far too resistive to continue going higher. Because of this, we then broke down and fell towards the $16.25 level.

Silver daily chart, April 05, 2018

Silver markets initially tried to rally during the trading session on Wednesday, reaching towards the $16.50 level. We found enough resistance there to keep going higher, so now that we have pulled back from there and broke down to the $16.25 level, I think that buyers will probably come back into this market, interested in picking up value. I believe that the market should continue to offer these opportunities occasionally, but longer-term I do believe that the market participants will continue to horde silver in general. The overall attitude of the market has been “buy the dips” for some time, and I believe that there are massive amounts of support underneath to keep these markets afloat.

The biggest trick was silver is lower leverage for those who are trading longer-term time frames. If you’re a scalper on the futures markets, then perhaps you can use a large account and leverage to take advantage of the back and forth situation, perhaps using the stochastic oscillator as a guide as to where to go next. Ultimately, I think that we will eventually find a reason to rally, be it for safety, or simply the US dollar falling.

If we can break out to the upside, I believe somewhere around the $17 level we would find resistance again, and then of course the $17.50 level. This is a market that continues to be very noisy, so if you are a longer-term trader you are best served either trading the CFD market, or perhaps buying the commodity in its physical form, as you can ride through a lot of noise that way.

SILVER Video 05.04.18

About the Author

Being FXEmpire’s analyst since the early days of the website, Chris has over 20 years of experience across various markets and assets – currencies, indices, and commodities. He is a proprietary trader as well trading institutional accounts.

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