Cleo
"there's something so instantaneous about this type of trading compared to buying a share and tucking it away during good and bad days."
You make a good point.
The main silver stocks performed relatively poorly compared to the $xau and $hui,paas and cde even went down,it does not mean silver will follow but it`s often another sign to put in the mix.
Incidently oil looks fantastic around here imo if you look at a weekly chart, and there are a lot of small speculators short as of last friday,which is another pointer.