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Silver Speculators ‘Gunning’ for 1980 Record: Chart of the Day
2011-04-15 04:00:00.4 GMT
By Pham-Duy Nguyen
April 15 (Bloomberg) -- Silver prices that doubled in the past year may be headed to a record above $50 an ounce on signs that higher trading costs have failed to deter new buyers, said Matt Zeman, a strategist at Kingsview Financial in Chicago.
The CHART OF THE DAY shows that holdings of New York futures by small speculators doubled since March 2010, even as their minimum deposit, or margin, for a 5,000-ounce contract jumped 74 percent to $8,700. Silver touched $42.21 yesterday, the highest since 1980, the year prices reached a record $50.35 as the Hunt Brothers helped corner the market.
“People are gunning for $50,” said Zeman, who correctly predicted a January slump in gold prices. “The margins aren’t discouraging buying yet. People are still very willing to pony up the money.”
Silver futures for May delivery rose yesterday by $1.427, or 3.5 percent, to close at $41.664 on the Comex in New York, bringing the cost of one contract to $208,320. The metal surged
84 percent last year, second only to cotton among the 19 commodities tracked by the Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index.
Margins for small speculators, who have less cash available to finance trading than do hedge funds and large investors, may have to rise another 15 percent to $10,000 before “you’re going to see buying interest dry up,” Zeman said. “That’s getting very expensive for a lot of small traders and small speculators.”
For silver’s rally to continue, it must attract new buyers, Zeman said. Prices generally drop on the day that margins are raised because small speculators must put up more money to trade or are forced to sell their positions to cover the margins.
Silver fell 0.9 percent on March 25, the last time margins were raised, halting a five-day rally to $38.18. At the time, the price was the highest in 31 years.