I was dead wrong ( like many times in the past), but I’m clearly happy about it 🙂

I know there’s still time, but looks more like short covering and buying coming in right now. I’m surprised at the strength. $5 move in silver makes me think there’s still some supply issues.

Dolly Varden is even moving on some heavy volume. Go figure.😂

Probably going to be a war over HUI 1k next week.

🙂

Yes , no problem . Just saw your query now .

The answer to your question is a resounding “yes.”

Straight from the scum’s playbook!!

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/nevada-tops-annual-global-mining-survey-rankings-china-ranks-last-2026-02-26

I’d blame the SM but it’s not down too much. Metals are flying, makes me wonder if they’re going to come in and smash them at the end of the day.

It makes sense that they would collude and coordinate rates. At this point, it seems the entire west is built on 0% rates.

Our real estate is toast here in my state with 6% rates.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/endeavour-silver-q4-earnings-snapshot-121056024.html

That’s some doing to report a loss with these metal prices!

Re Bonds….Yr Right

I know for an absolute fact that during the run up to the creation of the Zero, that Futures mkts in Bonds were used to push Italian and Greek rates to close to parity to German Bunds, so they could turn round and say look the mkts think both the Drachma and the Lire are suitable to join the Zero…..they used no limit orders.

So if it was done then, it can be done now etc….

US Begins Evacuating Some Embassy Staff In Israel ‘While Flights Still Available’

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-begins-evacuating-embassy-staff-israel-while-flights-still-available

Precious Metals Miners Catching Fire Once Again as Catch-Up Trade Just Beginning & Money Managers Who Missed in 2025 Can’t Afford To Miss Again!

The rotation is on. After months of watching the precious metals rally while the miners lagged, the script has flipped. Today, gold was largely flat and silver was down over 2%.

But the real story is in the miners. Both the GDX and SIL are up over 2%, and the juniors are absolutely flying, with the GDXJ and SILJ up well over 3%.

This is not a subtle move. This is a signal. The market is broadening, the rotation out of over-owned, over-valued tech and into deep-value, including under-owned miners is not just happening; it’s accelerating.

For months, we have been pounding the table on the historic undervaluation of the miners relative to the metals they produce. Now, we are seeing the beginning of the great catch-up trade.

With gold establishing a new floor around or above $5,000 and silver around or above $85, the cash flows these companies are set to generate are not just good; they are obscene.

The money managers who missed the 150% move in the miners last year because they were clinging to their tech darlings and dismissing gold as a “pet rock” are now being forced to answer for their ignorance.

They will not make that mistake again. The rotation trade is on, and the gold and silver miners are catching a serious bid. This is just the beginning.

You need to know;

• The Rotation Trade Is On: The miners are outperforming the metals.
• The Miners Are Up 2-3.5%: GDX and SIL is up over 2% and GDXJ and SILJ is up over 3%.
• The Market Is Broadening: This is a clear signal that the market is broadening and rotating out of tech into value.
• The Catch-up Trade Is On: The miners are beginning the great catch-up trade after a period of massive undervaluation.
• Floors, Consolidations & Uplegs: New floors for the metals (gold >$5,000 & silver >$85) will lead to massive cash flows for the miners.
• They Won’t Make The Same Mistake Twice: Money managers who missed the 150% move in miners last year are now being forced to chase performance.

And you need to know the “pet rock” and “a relic of a bygone era” narratives are dead, and the miners are catching a serious bid.

Let’s Dig Into The Following:

1. Today’s price action, is a textbook example of a market in transition. It is a day when the old leaders begin to hand the baton to the new leaders, whose time it is to emerge. For many years, the narrative has been dominated by a handful of mega-cap tech stocks, a narrow leadership that has masked the underlying weakness in the broader market. Why that narrative is now breaking down and the industries that are poised to benefit from the new macro regime of inflation, resource scarcity, and geopolitical conflict definitely include the miners!
2. The outperformance of the miners today is not just a one-day wonder. It is the continuation of a trend that has been building for weeks, despite the recent massive volatility. Why with gold and silver establishing new, higher floors, the operating leverage of these companies is immense and noteworthy!
3. The money managers who were underweight or completely out of the sector in 2025 are now in a state of panic. They are being forced to chase performance, to buy into a sector they have long derided, to explain to their clients why they missed the boat on one of the most powerful bull markets of the 21st century. Why now they can’t NOT be in the trade, their pain is becoming our gain, the rotation is on, and it is just getting started!
4. The career risk for a money manager is not in being wrong; it is in being wrong alone. For the past decade, the safe trade has been to huddle together in the same handful of tech stocks, to ride the wave of passive inflows, to ignore the fundamentals and focus on the momentum. That game is now over. The 150%+ move in the miners last year was a shot across the bow, a warning to the consensus that the world has changed. Why the money managers who ignored that warning, who clung to their belief that gold is a “pet rock” and a “relic of a bygone era,” are now facing a reckoning!
5. And what we are witnessing is not the end of the bull market in precious metals; it is the beginning of the beginning. The rotation out of tech and into the miners is a signal that the market is finally starting to price in the new reality. Why the money managers who missed the first 150% will now be providing the fuel for the next 150%+!

So, let’s go…

The Great Rotation: From Tech Darlings to Mining Behemoths

Today’s price action, is a textbook example of a market in transition. It is a day when the old leaders begin to hand the baton to the new leaders, whose time it is to emerge.

For many years, the narrative has been dominated by a handful of mega-cap tech stocks, a narrow leadership that has masked the underlying weakness in the broader market.

That narrative is now breaking down. As the tech darlings have generally stumbled out of the gate in 2026, capital is flowing into the forgotten corners of the market, the sectors that have been left for dead, the industries that are poised to benefit from the new macro regime of inflation, resource scarcity, and geopolitical conflict.

At the top of that list are the precious metals miners:

The outperformance of the miners today is not just a one-day wonder. It is the continuation of a trend that has been building for weeks, despite the recent massive volatility.

It is the market finally waking up to the reality that the miners are the most leveraged, most undervalued way to play the bull market in precious metals. With gold and silver establishing new, higher floors, the operating leverage of these companies is immense.

Every dollar increase in the price of the metal flows directly to the bottom line, and the market is just beginning to price in the explosive earnings growth that is coming.

This is the catch-up trade in its purest form. For the past year, the miners have been trading at a massive discount to the metals, a disconnect that has been a source of immense frustration for those of us who understand the fundamentals.

That disconnect is now closing, and it is closing with a vengeance. And it is not just closing with the majors. It is also closing with the juniors, which is a fantastic sign of the evolution and maturation of the bull cycle. Have a look at the action in the juniors today;

The money managers who were underweight or completely out of the sector are now in a state of panic. They are being forced to chase performance, to buy into a sector they have long derided, to explain to their clients why they missed the boat on one of the most powerful bull markets of the 21st century.

In 2025, they were largely absent from the 150%+ run-up in the miners and their bosses and clients are asking why? Now they can’t not be in the trade. As they begin to dip their toes and enter the market, their pain is becoming our gain. The rotation is on, and it is just getting started.

The Reckoning: Wall Street’s “Pet Rock” Problem

The career risk for a money manager is not in being wrong; it is in being wrong alone. For the past decade, the safe trade has been to huddle together in the same handful of tech stocks, to ride the wave of passive inflows, to ignore the fundamentals and focus on the momentum. That game is now over.

The 150%+ move in the miners last year was a shot across the bow, a warning to the consensus that the world has changed. The money managers who ignored that warning, who clung to their belief that gold is a “pet rock” and a “relic of a bygone era,” are now facing a reckoning.

Imagine the conversations that are happening in the boardrooms of the world’s largest asset managers;

• The performance reports are in, and the numbers are stark. The funds that had zero allocation to precious metals and miners have dramatically underperformed their peers.
• The managers of those funds are now being asked to explain themselves. Why did they have no exposure to the best-performing asset class of the past year? Why did they dismiss the warnings about inflation, debt, and geopolitical risk? Why did they believe that a 5,000-year-old monetary asset was irrelevant in the digital age?

These are not easy questions to answer, and the money managers who are being asked them are not going to make the same mistake twice.

• They are now being forced to buy into the very sector they have long derided.
• They are being forced to chase performance, to allocate capital to the miners not because they have suddenly seen the light, but because their jobs depend on it.

This is the dynamic that will fuel the next leg of the bull market in precious metals. It is a self-reinforcing cycle of under-allocation, performance chasing, and a belated recognition of the new macro reality.

The “pet rock” narrative is dead. The miners are no longer a fringe asset class; they are a core holding in a world of unprecedented risk and uncertainty.

The Beginning of the Beginning

What we are witnessing is not the end of the bull market in precious metals; it is the beginning of the beginning. The rotation out of tech and financialized assets and into the miners is a signal that the market is finally starting to price in the new reality.

The undervaluation of the miners relative to the metals is a massive opportunity, a chance to buy into a sector that is on the cusp of an explosive earnings boom. The money managers who missed the first 150% are now providing the fuel for the next 150%.

We should not be swayed by the day-to-day noise. The trend is clear. The rotation is real. And the miners are just getting started. More days like today are coming and will likely become the norm.

I have this theory about bonds. I think the west prints up off the books cash and buys each other’s bonds, it’s all monopoly money to keep the game going. What a few trillion in computer entries going to hurt. It’s all fiat garbage anyway.

What is crazy to me is that they’ve convinced people to accept that trash for real goods.

PM’s are flying now, that’s why the shares were so strong yesterday. HUI 1K on its way.

Things were getting out of control for a few minutes, even gold takes out $5200.

They’ve calmed things down a little bit, but looking good. Shares strengthening some. I wonder if we got the bulk of our gains in the shares yesterday.

SM in trouble. Right now bonds, oil and pm’s rule the day.

Air attacks on Kabul push Pakistan-Taliban crisis into uncharted territory

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan launched air strikes on Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, as well as on Kandahar and Paktia, early on Friday. The attacks targeted Taliban military installations as Islamabad declared “open war” on the group’s government, in the most serious military confrontation between the two neighbours in years.

The strikes came hours after Afghan forces launched coordinated cross-border attacks on Pakistani military positions in six border provinces late on Thursday. Kabul claimed 55 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 19 outposts captured.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/27/air-attacks-on-kabul-push-pakistan-taliban-crisis-into-uncharted-territory

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BREAKING: 🇵🇰🇦🇫 Afghan media report that Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, has been killed in massive Pakistani airstrikes in Kandahar.

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It seems to me the silver price rigging game is about over. Look at the recent gains in gold and silver but silver specifically, If the riggers had a lot of control this wouldn’t have happened. I don’t think it will be too long before crimex is ended in it’s present form. JMO

re Bonds

Search me….that Bonds are easing now is quite frankly astonishing, particularly for Europe, as they are doing nothing about their debt levels….at least the US is aware and attempting something, which may or may not work…but looks like it may…Technically, we are correcting some of the huge run up in rates, which is to be expected…..which in turn says the Bond mkts are not worried at all !!!!

TA does say long term Rates rise…..but not yet.

If that article ( by Silvertrade) is correct, the CME can just do whatever they please and NOTHING will be done about it.

Sorry to be such an”Debby Downer” about this, but why do we ever have to fret and grasp on to hopes like this ever again? That’s what happens when the elites, and the scum get in trouble ( and they’ll continue to do so); change the rules, stop trading whenever they want, and the same BS goes ON and ON.

Why are they easing is the question. The entire west is broke, so who is buying all those bonds and why? Oil being up is no surprise given we will be attacking Iran any day now. The SM doesn’t appear to be going anywhere, the QQQ’s look like they are slowly rolling over. War is usually good for the SM, but I wonder if that will hold this time around.

Is the flight into bonds an early flight to safety by all those fund managers that don’t know any better?

You know what is not a flight to safety? Bitcoin. Down 2.5% today. I think if tech gets wrecked, so does Bitcoin.

PM’s starting to move now…

re rates…..Yr rates are easing….so all western rates are easing…no matter that the likes of France, Germany and the UK are miles up shit creek and show no concerns about being there….

Ps Earle is at recent Hi’s…..