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- 0:00I think if prices start to break out, we break over like 3250 on
- 0:04silver, you could see more unwinding or less hedging take
- 0:08place by those companies. Today, we're fortunate to be
- 0:15joined by Phil Streibel. He's the Chief Market Strategist
- 0:19at Blue Line Futures. He's been on CNBC and Fox, as I
- 0:23understand, and today he's going to join us in the basement to
- 0:27talk about silver, gold, copper and a few other general market
- 0:31topics. Phil, welcome to Ron's Basement.
- 0:34Yeah. Thanks for having me on, Ron.
- 0:36So, so you've been following these markets for years.
- 0:40Obviously, if we zoom in on silver and gold, we've had a big
- 0:43run up lately. Today, as we record this
- 0:46Thursday, August 22nd, we're had a a bit of a pullback.
- 0:51What are your general thoughts when you look at what's
- 0:54happening right now in the silver and gold markets?
- 0:57Yeah, Ron And I've been doing this for about 20-3 years as a
- 1:00licensed future commodity brokerage advisor.
- 1:03I, we're in some of the largest trading desks, you know, in the,
- 1:07in the entire world when it comes to trading gold and silver
- 1:10specifically. So the way that we interpret it
- 1:13is kind of more on the macro theme.
- 1:16And we take shorter term approaches, not necessarily day
- 1:19trading, but we like to look at where we're at in the cycle,
- 1:21where we're at in the investment, the economic cycle
- 1:24and things like that. And just recently we had a
- 1:26number of developments that have occurred, The Federal Reserve,
- 1:29they finally pivoted. They went from an extreme
- 1:32hawkish environment, so interest rates are high, which pressures
- 1:36the gold market, and to a more dovish stance, which means that
- 1:40they are going to start to engage on a cutting cycle.
- 1:43So people are going to unfortunately see in their
- 1:47savings accounts that that yield that they're getting on those
- 1:50money markets. It's going to start to come off
- 1:52a bit and people want to reallocate that money somewhere
- 1:56else. And a lot of people feel that as
- 1:58interest rates are getting cut, that the that the Federal
- 2:02Reserve is starting to see that there's a little bit of a darker
- 2:06picture, possibly a recession in the future.
- 2:08So people will go into a comfort of buying things like gold.
- 2:12And that's why we've seen recent all time highs in it.
- 2:15Interesting. I want to ask your opinion on
- 2:17this. It feels like to me over the
- 2:19last, let's say two or three years, the gold price and the
- 2:24silver price have done pretty well despite the fact that for a
- 2:27majority of that time period they were running against the
- 2:31wind or sailing into a headwind with these high interest rates.
- 2:35Were you surprised over the last two years that gold and silver
- 2:38have done so well and, and how does that bode for the future as
- 2:42we do? I mean, obviously they're
- 2:43forward-looking, but as we move into this future where we could
- 2:48see a lower interest rate environment, do you think that
- 2:50silver and gold could go higher from here even?
- 2:54Absolutely. And you know, you look at the
- 2:56way things really they change structurally once after Covad
- 2:59because a lot of people then found comfort and trading in the
- 3:04markets and starting to speculate in the markets and
- 3:06they looked at different ways to, you know, diversify their
- 3:10assets. We saw the stock market, the S&P
- 3:12500 reach all time highs. The same thing with, you know,
- 3:15the NASDAQ, even the Russell have all done quite well.
- 3:18And people naturally broaden out their types of investments.
- 3:22So that's why we've seen interest in things like gold and
- 3:25silver and other, you know, asset classes.
- 3:27We've seen explosive moves in crypto currencies and people are
- 3:31always looking for kind of that next asset class to jump in on
- 3:36it. And it's always been kind of
- 3:37silver has always been kind of that one that people, you know,
- 3:41they remember 2011 and hit $50. We've seen multiple attempts on
- 3:45silver squeezes to the upside. So people really find, you know,
- 3:49comfort in allocating towards hard assets like that.
- 3:52And I think you know, over the last couple years we've seen the
- 3:56economy do quite well. Now we are at a turning point.
- 4:00And then also we've seen central banks, they have because of the
- 4:05the complications between a lot of different countries and their
- 4:08relations, a lot of central banks, they divested themselves
- 4:12from holding foreign currencies. And what they've done is they've
- 4:16increased their holdings of gold and physical gold, and that's
- 4:20what's really elevated gold prices.
- 4:23And on top of that, I want your opinion on this, Phil, the gold
- 4:27and silver price have done well over the last few years, but
- 4:30that's also been without much help from the Western investors,
- 4:35right? I mean, ETF, ETF flows have been
- 4:39somewhat negative. Do you think that if the
- 4:41American public, the Western public in general, does become
- 4:45just a little bit more interested in silver and gold,
- 4:47that that could be another, you know, marginal source of demand
- 4:51to help push the prices higher? If you're looking to buy gold,
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- 5:19No, you'd be surprised because I've looked at studies in about
- 5:2211% of the US population owns silver in some form.
- 5:26It's about 10% on gold. And I think that the reason why
- 5:30it's more on silver than gold is obviously because of the price
- 5:33being about $29.00 an ounce versus about $2500 an ounce.
- 5:38But I think people will, they're going to, once they start to get
- 5:42worried about things like the debt.
- 5:44We, you know, the debt ceilings and, and how much we're taking
- 5:47on. And then also just the reckless
- 5:50fiscal spending that we're doing.
- 5:52And you also have some uneasiness around this
- 5:54presidential election. It's really in the last week or
- 5:57so tighten up on the race that I think that people are going to
- 6:01kind of hunker down. They'll be in their own
- 6:03basement, you know, just kind of locking things down.
- 6:06And I think that that's where people start to accumulate more
- 6:10of the ETFs, more of the silver miners and and more of the
- 6:13physical holdings. Yeah, yeah.
- 6:16Well, and I, and I want to mention that's How I Met Phil.
- 6:18Every morning Phil puts out an an update video, kind of a
- 6:23market update video. And if our viewers want to see
- 6:26that they can go to YouTube, type in blue line futures and
- 6:30the channel will come up. But it's a great five or six
- 6:33minute kind of market update video that comes out in a few
- 6:36days ago you, you pointed out something that I hadn't heard
- 6:39anyone else point out and that is that the silver price has
- 6:43lately been somewhat more Co Co related to the copper price.
- 6:48Can you bring us kind of up to speed on what's going on there?
- 6:51Yeah, generally what we do is, you know, we look at different
- 6:54correlation between markets. I mean traders naturally seek
- 6:58out simplified ways to measure price of a commodity to
- 7:01determine whether it should be bought or sold or whether it's
- 7:04overvalued or undervalued. And we start looking at cross
- 7:07commodity ratios. You can look at things like corn
- 7:10versus soybeans if you're a farmer, gasoline versus crude
- 7:14oil, you know gold versus silver and copper versus silver.
- 7:17So we ran some of the 90 day correlations here and you can
- 7:21see that copper and silver that correlations about 67 percent
- 7:25right now. The gold silver correlation over
- 7:28the last 90 days is 83% and the copper gold correlations 50%.
- 7:33But you could see that a lot of because of the natural
- 7:39industrial demand and silver accounts, about 64% of it is
- 7:44industrial demand where copper is about 100%.
- 7:48It's either industrial electronic demand.
- 7:50You could see that close correlation there.
- 7:52I mean, today we're seeing a big sell off.
- 7:55You got silver, you know, as of this recording down about 1.9%.
- 7:59That's a pretty sizable move. It's over $0.50.
- 8:02And you've got the copper futures, those are down about 1
- 8:051/4%. And it's really it was a miss on
- 8:08some men manufacturing PMI data. And because of that you're
- 8:13seeing weaker manufacturing demand.
- 8:15Prices are naturally taking a bit of a step back.
- 8:18That's the kind of update that I would provide like on a video on
- 8:21a day-to-day basis, it's a little bit more, you know, hands
- 8:25on with each little price fluctuation.
- 8:28There's several things I do every morning when I wake up,
- 8:30Phil, and you're becoming more and more a part of my morning
- 8:34routine. So I visit, I visit with you
- 8:38here in the basement. I know that my viewers love
- 8:42silver. I know our viewer here with the
- 8:44love silver. You mentioned short squeeze
- 8:46earlier, not predicting that we were going to have one, but as
- 8:49you work in the futures markets, I imagine you have a a certain
- 8:53level of insight into how traders are positioned.
- 8:57Is it true that there's a big short position in the silver
- 9:02market and and could that need to be at some point unwound,
- 9:05potentially resulting in a short squeeze?
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- 9:37projects. There's a little bit is a little
- 9:40bit more depth when it comes to like how the market is short.
- 9:44There have been periods of time in the past where there was, you
- 9:47know, manipulation and people were, you know, intentionally
- 9:50beating the price of silver down.
- 9:52I think with new regulations and things like that and a little
- 9:56bit more transparency in the market that a lot of this funny
- 10:00business has come out of the market.
- 10:02The reason why there would be large short positions in the
- 10:06silver market right now is because of two things.
- 10:09You might see that we're going to go into an economic downturn
- 10:13that things like in China and manufacturing are going to get
- 10:16worse. People are going to spend less
- 10:18money. That just means that the demand
- 10:20for the particular product just isn't there, so the price is
- 10:24naturally going to come down. The second thing is that you
- 10:27think of who reduces silver and gold and copper and things and
- 10:32they look at the price of silver, it is quite, it is quite
- 10:35high. I know it's not $4050 what we
- 10:38would what we perceive as high. But what companies do or mining
- 10:43operations as they look at what is their cost to produce one
- 10:47ounce, where is the ounce of silver right now?
- 10:50And what they'll do is they'll forward hedge that production.
- 10:54So they take short positions on the market and all they're
- 10:57trying to do is just just lock in what their production classes
- 11:01and what they can forward sell it and that's how you operate a
- 11:04business. So there is a short position
- 11:06there. Will they lift some of that
- 11:08short? I think if prices start to break
- 11:10out, we break over like 30 to 50 on silver, you could see more
- 11:14unwinding or less hedging take place by those companies.
- 11:19Interesting. I, I hear a lot of analysts talk
- 11:21about including myself that if silver gets above 33 gets into
- 11:27that 33 dollar $34 range that there's going to be very little
- 11:32overhead resistance and that a move up maybe into the mid 40s
- 11:36could happen quickly. Any you're, you're smiling.
- 11:38So any any thoughts on that? It's like, it's like we get over
- 11:42like 3250. I think it's like the gloves are
- 11:44off, Ron, we're going to, we're going to a war.
- 11:48So yeah, there's there's not a whole lot because then you got
- 11:51to start looking back on the charts.
- 11:53If you're a technician, you know, technical analysis tells
- 11:56you like when to buy and sell. And really we start breaking
- 12:00over these key levels, these old resistance levels become new
- 12:04support levels. So once we can break over there,
- 12:07get a couple a couple trading days above it or say a weekly
- 12:11close or a monthly close, whatever duration people are
- 12:14comfortable with, it tends to attract ETF inflows.
- 12:18And then also you'll hear about like I have a lot of coin
- 12:22dealers as clients. They'll be like, man, I got
- 12:24ransacked over the weekend with a flood of orders, you know,
- 12:28especially when you get the Sunday night explosion in
- 12:30prices. So I think that it becomes a
- 12:34snowball effect. So you get over the 3250.
- 12:38It's almost like the mules getting hit in the head with a 2
- 12:42by 4 and people are like, I don't want to miss out on it.
- 12:45They start allocating some. Then you get the people that
- 12:49naturally chase momentum. They don't care what it is.
- 12:52If it's Bitcoin, NVIDIA, the next AI stock, they want to be
- 12:56in there. Those people naturally come in.
- 12:59Then it triggers the algorithms that go the trend followers and
- 13:03then that's how we just get really explosive price moves.
- 13:07So you know, one thing that we do is we look at longer dated
- 13:11options to try and position when we anticipate that because it'll
- 13:14take some of the emotions out by having forward call options.
- 13:19Interesting, interesting. So when I, when I explained it
- 13:23to my viewers, what I said was, you know, that why, why getting
- 13:26into that 32503334 range was so important?
- 13:31One of the reasons is because there just aren't a lot of
- 13:34people out there that are sitting on silver that bought it
- 13:38at 3830 nine $40 saying, boy, if it ever hits $40, I'm going to
- 13:42sell again. Is that an accurate way to to to
- 13:45describe like a lack of overhead resistance it?
- 13:48Is it is true. So the the way that, you know,
- 13:52when you look at investing in something like silver, OK, you
- 13:56kind of look at this thing like a football team, all right?
- 13:59And there's offense, there's defense and they're special
- 14:03teams. And I think that you look at you
- 14:06look at the defense, that's kind of you're not very liquid.
- 14:10You know, you're, you're going to be with them, you're going to
- 14:12hold them. You find comfort, you know,
- 14:15around your defense working. And that's similar to owning
- 14:18like artwork, antiques, firearms, vintage cars, It's
- 14:22it's a buy and hold. So I think that when it comes to
- 14:26like owning physical silver, people are that's an asset that
- 14:29you're going to just continuously allocate to and you
- 14:32may or may not sell it over the course of your life.
- 14:35You know, so it's, it's more of the buy and hold.
- 14:38I think that the other two components that the offense,
- 14:42which is where you're, you know, you're throwing the ball, you're
- 14:44trying to strike, make touchdowns and things.
- 14:47That's where people utilize ETFs and futures contracts.
- 14:51And then I think your special teams is really those miners,
- 14:54those junior miners, the royalty companies.
- 14:57Gotcha. Gotcha.
- 14:59Yeah, I get very excited thinking about the potential
- 15:01move for silver in particular from that $34 range to wherever,
- 15:07wherever it may go. And you know, people sometimes
- 15:12scoff at at at me and others when we talked about the
- 15:15potential, let's say for silver to go to $80.00 or $100 per oz.
- 15:20And I want to get your kind of switch gears here to go to a
- 15:23macro perspective. But it's my understanding that
- 15:26from like 2001 to 2011, I think silver went from like 4 or $5.00
- 15:31an ounce up to 50, spiked up to 50.
- 15:34And that a big reason why was that we were in a period of a
- 15:38bear market for the dollar. I think the US dollar index went
- 15:42from, I don't know, 120 down to like 75.
- 15:46Could you? I mean when I when I look at the
- 15:48macro environment and when I look at the fiscal situation in
- 15:52our country, obviously the debt, the deficit, it's everything
- 15:56else. It feels like to me that that
- 15:58it's almost inevitable that at minimum in real terms the dollar
- 16:01is going to go down in value. But if we also have a bear
- 16:04market in the dollar that it could be like a very strong
- 16:09support source of support for silver. 100% And you know if you
- 16:16look at the dollar index, it's been getting hit pretty hard
- 16:19over the last couple weeks really as the Fed said that they
- 16:22were going to start to cut rates as they get as they cut those
- 16:26rates, the dollar index naturally gets weaker.
- 16:28And then of course the reckless spending that we've seen out of
- 16:32out of the government has really just kind of put dollars
- 16:35everywhere. You know, it seems like we're
- 16:37kind of supporting everyone around the globe in some
- 16:40capacity. So it's that dollar dilution
- 16:43that has really has a lot of concerns and that's why people
- 16:47spend our own hard assets and things that are inflation type
- 16:53protected. But I think if we start to get
- 16:55the breakdown there, you could really see it.
- 17:00I think that'll mostly boost the gold market, that correlation
- 17:04between gold and silver about 83%.
- 17:06So I think that that's where silver finds its bottom.
- 17:09But in order to get the like 1-2 punch on silver where prices
- 17:14take off, say you do get that, where the dollar starts selling
- 17:18off, feds cutting rates and things like that, you need
- 17:20China, which has been, they're one of the largest consumers of
- 17:24copper and silver out there. They use it for, you know, their
- 17:27industrial space. You get them trying kind of
- 17:31boost their economy and try and stimulate and then then you're
- 17:35throwing gasoline on the fire. And that's where silver prices
- 17:39really outperform gold. And you could get that gold,
- 17:42silver ratio down into the 60s, fifties, 40s.
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- 18:24The 1-2 punch and potentially at some point even like a one 2-3
- 18:27punch. Yeah.
- 18:28I was talking to somebody the other day about the 1980 high
- 18:32and silver, which was $50.00 an ounce.
- 18:35And if you inflation adjust that some people say 150.
- 18:39I mean, there's all different numbers out there, but the like
- 18:43back in 1980, how different things are now.
- 18:45You talked about a few of your clients being coin dealers.
- 18:48Like in 1980, you hear stories about people lining up outside
- 18:53coin shops at 6:00 in the morning so that they could get
- 18:56in to buy some silver. Today we're in such a different
- 19:00world that like, you know, the, the, the on the, on the retail
- 19:04side. And I'd like to get your
- 19:05perspective on this because I know the retail side is just one
- 19:07segment obviously of, of silver, but the silver, the retail
- 19:11silver supply can get wiped out in an hour with online, you
- 19:15know, you and I could purchase, you know, 1000 ounces of silver
- 19:18in the next 5 minutes with online that things really are,
- 19:22you know that we are in kind of a different and in 1980, China
- 19:26and India weren't as big of players in the precious metals
- 19:31markets like they are now. Yeah, the, the, the coin side is
- 19:34very interesting because I think it's very, very, you know,
- 19:37finite as far as you know. You got to really look and
- 19:41understand like what you're buying on these coins.
- 19:44Because I talked to a lot of people where if you're buying
- 19:46like the Silver Eagles, that's pretty close to like
- 19:49corresponding with like what the spot price is.
- 19:51There's a small premium. We've seen premiums really widen
- 19:54out. And then that's where you want
- 19:56to look towards other alternatives like an ETF or a
- 19:59futures contract because you just.
- 20:01You'll never be able to achieve if if prices really get going
- 20:05because the premiums are so high.
- 20:07It eats in your profitability. But I think that the times are
- 20:10really different because you go to, you know, silver quarters
- 20:14and things like that. But the pre 1965, that's when
- 20:18that's when people were buying silver for, you know, with the
- 20:21coinage and everything. But now it's just such a
- 20:23different product. I think that's silver, you know,
- 20:26from an investment in a physical demand only makes up just a
- 20:30small portion of what its total demand is.
- 20:32It's really that industrial demand makes up 64% of it.
- 20:36So you know, it's, it's, it's one thing to hold coins and
- 20:41stuff. It's another thing to think
- 20:43about if you would ever monetize what you own.
- 20:47That's why we think that asset classes like the futures
- 20:50contracts make it much easier. Like if you had say we bought
- 20:54those thousand eagles 1000 oz and silver goes to 40 bucks
- 20:59tonight, how are we going to sell it?
- 21:02And if we sell it, how are we going to replace it?
- 21:05And that's where I think having you own your physical, you have
- 21:09some very liquid form of silver on the side.
- 21:12Like you could buy 1000 oz futures contract, it goes to
- 21:1640-50 bucks overnight. You sell that futures contract,
- 21:19you have Peace of Mind with your eagles.
- 21:21And then if prices come back down, you reinitiate on the
- 21:24futures contracts. Yeah, or you can take some of
- 21:27your profits that you made with with Phil and buy yourself some
- 21:30extra eagles and keep some in your account, right?
- 21:33Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- 21:35This has been great. Thank you on behalf of myself
- 21:39and our viewer who's joined us, I want to give you an
- 21:41opportunity. Two things.
- 21:43Number one, what did I forget to ask you if there's anything top
- 21:47of mind that you want to talk about?
- 21:48And then secondly, if, if you wouldn't mind kind of explaining
- 21:52to my audience what it is that you do and, and, and how people
- 21:56could maybe learn more about you.
- 21:58Yeah, I'm the Chief Market Strategist at Blue Line Futures.
- 22:01We're a full service futures and commodity brokerage firm.
- 22:04We offer comprehensive trading solutions from a self-directed
- 22:08trader to a broker assisted, we really have you covered.
- 22:12We also have more of a hands off approach.
- 22:15We've got an award-winning CTA, our global opportunities
- 22:19commodity trading advisor. We were up about 6% July, 22%
- 22:23year to date. And then we're also a registered
- 22:25investment advisor. We offer long term wealth
- 22:28management solutions. We build out portfolios using
- 22:31the equities and what makes this a little bit different, we're
- 22:33someone would have an 8020 portfolio, 6040 where some of
- 22:37that, that debt portion of it will take like the bond
- 22:41position. We'll cut that down and we'll
- 22:43start adding things like you know, gold miners and gold and
- 22:47things like that. It helps you keep up with
- 22:49inflation, protects you as well, and it also provides a coupon
- 22:54that we'll utilize for other things.
- 22:56So you know, that's one thing there.
- 22:58As far as these, these, the one thing I think that people really
- 23:02need to understand is that or or be more open minded to is that
- 23:07these metals, things like silver and any asset class that's out
- 23:11there, they're going to have their ups and downs.
- 23:13They are impacted by the supply and the demand side and the
- 23:16economic cycle really drives that, that and that, you know,
- 23:20don't just become frustrated when you see prices like when
- 23:24we're doing this video, it's down 1.7%.
- 23:27You know, this is where it's important to keep some powder
- 23:29dry. Have a plan, trade your plan,
- 23:32and then proceed from there. Yeah, I, I, I tell my audience
- 23:36and I have a little hand drawn chart that I'll show during some
- 23:38of my live streams. Like a bull market is when
- 23:42something consistently goes up, but there's pull backs along the
- 23:45way. You're going to have days when
- 23:48things go down and you know, and that's part that's a normal,
- 23:51healthy part of a bull market. You know more about this and I
- 23:54do, but obviously nothing just goes straight up forever without
- 23:58crashing back down. Yeah, if you're going to, if
- 24:01you're a lot of it is also the position sizing.
- 24:03You know, if you get to something like, you know, I did
- 24:06a video the other day with gold at all time highs, like how
- 24:09should someone approach it? Because they start to have the
- 24:12FOMO. And what it is is that you kind
- 24:14of, you look at it like a swimming pool.
- 24:16You don't just like run and jump into the deep end and go all in.
- 24:20You kind of want to stick your foot in, get a gauge of the
- 24:22temperature, make sure that there's no sharks swimming
- 24:25around there. Then you kind of wade in and
- 24:27then you get up to wait steep and then you you kind of go from
- 24:29there. That's how investing in things
- 24:31like silver and gold. That's why the futures have 1000
- 24:35oz contracts, 10 oz contracts on the gold.
- 24:38So with this type of correction that we're seeing here today,
- 24:41this is where a lot of our clients are going to step in and
- 24:43they're going to add a small allocation.
- 24:46And then we'll see what the week brings here.
- 24:47We've got, you know, the federal Fed's going to be speaking and
- 24:51we got that September Fed meeting and we'll, we'll just
- 24:53see how the data plays out and try and build something long
- 24:56term because we're confident that structurally long term
- 24:59prices should be higher. Things should go higher.
- 25:02All right, well, I'll put a link to your company's website in the
- 25:05description of this video. Again, I want to say thank you
- 25:09for the time you've given me and given our viewer.
- 25:12Obviously, you have some keen insights into what what goes on
- 25:16within the precious metals market and I will be bugging you
- 25:20to come back into the basement again maybe in 5-6 weeks.
- 25:24Phil, thank you. That thanks, Ron.
- 25:27I look forward to it.