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SilverScoreboardTM
The Precious LegacyTM · real-time silver bias monitor
Silver · SI=F · USD per troy ounce
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Gold · GC=F · USD per troy ounce
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90-day directional bias
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Composite signal score — · positive = bullish silver
Alpha Day-ahead Predictive Model
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ALPHA v0.5
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Silver — Price, 50/200-day Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands
Last ~12 months · daily close · 20-day Bollinger ±2σ
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Gold — Price, 50/200-day Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands
Last ~12 months · daily close · 20-day Bollinger ±2σ
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Bias Components
Inflation Expectations & Rates
Inflation Expectations
Market expected inflation plus Fed target and 10/20/30-year realized inflation guideposts
Yield Curve
10Y-2Y & 10Y-3M spreads (recession indicators)
Commodities
WTI Light Sweet crude · Brent Sea oil · copper · copper/gold (reflation proxy)
Current Brent Sea Oil
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PCE Inflation — The Fed's Preferred Gauge
Headline PCE (all items) vs Core PCE (ex food & energy) — the inflation measure that actually drives Fed rate decisions
Currencies & Geopolitical Signals
Gold/Silver Ratio
Current ratio vs. 100-year and long-history benchmarks
Current GSR
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100-Year Avg
~47:1
500-Year Avg
~15:1
Paper Contracts to Physical Silver
SLV silver ounces compared with registered deliverable COMEX silver
Paper to Actual Ratio
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SLV Ounce Box
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COMEX Eligible Silver — 90-Day Tracker
Eligible silver meets COMEX standards but is not currently warranted for delivery; the line starts with today’s reading and builds daily
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Eligible vs RegisteredEligible is stored COMEX-standard silver; registered is the currently deliverable pile.
Tracking WindowThis records one daily point and keeps the latest 90 days.
CFTC Bank Silver Futures — Long vs Short
Monthly Bank Participation Report for COMEX silver; grouped U.S. and non-U.S. banks, not individual bank names
Latest Banks
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Bank Net
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Open Interest
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Major Bank PressureCFTC reports bank positions monthly. The chart updates when a new official report is available.
Plain EnglishGreen shows bank longs; red shows bank shorts; purple shows net bank position. Shorter than zero means banks are net short.
USD to Chinese Yuan
USD/CNY exchange rate 90-day trend · rising means dollar strengthening vs. yuan
USD → CNY
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7-Day Change
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Why It MattersA stronger dollar vs. yuan means each dollar buys more yuan — cheaper Chinese goods for American buyers, but also signals capital flowing out of China.
Policy WatchChina manages the yuan within a band — big moves often mean policy intervention, not just market forces.
USD Index vs. Major Currencies
DXY (broad dollar strength) overlaid with USD/CNY (yuan) · dual-axis 90-day view
DXY
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Dual AxisLeft axis: DXY (dollar vs. basket of major currencies). Right axis: USD/CNY. Both rising means the dollar is broadly strong.
Divergence SignalWhen DXY rises but USD/CNY does not, China may be managing the yuan stronger than the market would set it.
Physical Silver Market
Shanghai Premium over COMEX
SGE silver price vs COMEX spot · how much more China pays per ounce · higher = tighter physical demand overseas
Premium
SGE Price
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30-Day Avg
What It MeansWhen Shanghai silver costs more than COMEX silver, China and Asia are paying a premium for physical delivery. That signals tighter real-world demand — and it's bullish for silver.
Premium = Demand SignalA rising premium means overseas buyers are bidding up physical silver beyond the paper price. When the premium shrinks or flips negative, physical demand has softened.
Calculation(SGE price in USD/oz − COMEX spot) ÷ COMEX spot × 100. Data sourced daily from metalcharts.org.
COMEX Silver Open Interest Futures
Total outstanding silver futures contracts on COMEX · CFTC weekly data · builds daily
Open Interest
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What Open Interest MeansOpen interest counts every outstanding futures contract that has not been closed or delivered. It is the paper-claim total against the physical registered pile.
Rising Open Interest + Falling InventoryThat combination means more paper claims chasing less physical metal — a classic squeeze indicator.
COMEX Tot Silver Inventory
Registered + Eligible combined · the full physical pile backing COMEX silver contracts
Total Inventory
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Registered + EligibleTotal inventory is the sum of deliverable (registered) and stored-but-not-warranted (eligible) silver in COMEX vaults.
Watch the TrendFalling total inventory while open interest is rising is a supply squeeze signal worth monitoring.
Silver Market Available Ounces — How Stacks Compare
Current available physical silver by market — log scale shows how stacks compare
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Shanghai SHFE
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Log ScaleLondon vaults are ~10× larger than COMEX registered. Log scale lets you see all three markets at a glance.
UnitsAll values are in millions of troy ounces. COMEX trend arrow shows 30-day direction.
Global Silver Mine Production
Top 8 Producing Countries, 2020–2024
Values in Million Ounces · Source: The Silver Institute
2024 Total
819.7M oz
YoY Change
−1.3%
vs 2022 Peak
−2.4%
Top 8 Share
Country
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🇲🇽 Mexico190.3196.5202.2202.1185.7−2.4%
🇨🇳 China101.4105.8110.2114.3114.0+12.4%
🇵🇪 Peru105.8103.6101.9101.896.5−8.8%
🇨🇱 Chile38.540.843.443.434.6−10.1%
🇧🇴 Bolivia32.333.237.239.542.1+30.3%
🇷🇺 Russia42.440.540.740.540.0−5.7%
🇵🇱 Poland38.739.539.540.339.2+1.3%
🇺🇸 USA32.533.236.535.433.6+3.4%
⚠ Mexico Down 8.1%World #1 producer fell from 202.2M → 185.7M oz in 2024 — first decline after four straight years of growth.
⚠ Chile Down 20.3%Largest single-year drop among the top 8: 43.4M → 34.6M oz in just one year.
📉 Post-Peak DeclineGlobal output peaked at 839.4M oz in 2022 and has fallen 2.4% since — even as industrial demand hits record highs.
📈 Bolivia +30.3%Strongest 5-year growth among top 8: 32.3M → 42.1M oz. Lead/zinc mine expansion driving gains.
⚡ Supply Squeeze BuildingPrimary silver mine output fell to a record low of 227.5M oz in 2024. Declining production + rising demand = structural deficit.
Special Broadcast
September 11, 2001 — Twenty-Five Years: We Remember
Actual Fox5 New York audio from that morning. The boatlift that moved half a million souls off Manhattan. The man in the red bandana. Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven. We must remember — and teach the young. That is our solemn duty.
25th Anniversary
We Remember
The Boatlift
The Man in the Red Bandana
Flight 93
Fox5 New York Audio
Publishing Times
The Precious LegacyTM Broadcast Week
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Morning Shield
Start the day with plain-English silver, gold, dollar, and market context — your first line of defense.
Weekdays · 7:00 PM
Nightly Report
Your daily wrap-up with a strong focus on overseas news and events — the close and what's coming next.
Saturday · 10:00 AM
Weekend Wisdom — Scoreboard School
Educational training on what the SilverScoreboardTM categories mean, why they matter, and how to read the information calmly.
Sunday · 10:00 AM
Weekend Wisdom — Philosophy & Legacy
Financial and life philosophy for The Forgotten Man — brought to you by The Precious LegacyTM: discipline, stewardship, patience, legacy, risk, work, family, and long-term thinking.
Dependable · Reliable · Consistent — that is how legacies get built.
Memorial Day — Taps & The Family Budget
Opens with twenty-four notes that stop an entire nation, then turns to the battle plan: kill credit card debt with the Snowball, attack the mortgage, pay yourself first. For every family who lost someone serving — we remember.
Memorial Day
Taps Tribute
Debt Snowball
Mortgage Attack
The 10-10-10-70 Rule
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Sunday Wisdom — Systems That Stack
Dollar-cost averaging and five systems to automate your precious metals buying: pay yourself first, automate, windfall rule, set meaningful goals, track what you own. A system removes the emotion and keeps you stacking through the noise.
DCA
Pay Yourself First
Automate
Windfall Rule
The Forgotten Man
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Saturday Wisdom — Scoreboard Deep Dive & Dollar-Cost Averaging
A walk-through of the new SilverScoreboard™ tab by tab — Price & Signals, Inflation & Rates, World Economic Radar, Physical Silver, and Broadcast Info — followed by why the recent pullback is exactly why dollar-cost averaging works. The fundamentals haven't changed.
Scoreboard Tour
DCA
Pullback Strategy
Physical Premium
The Forgotten Man
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Sunday Wisdom — The 26% Number
Just 26% of Americans expect to leave any inheritance. This broadcast names the five reasons legacy plans fail — inaction, procrastination, longevity costs, emotional avoidance, and not knowing where to start — and then turns to why physical precious metals are the superior legacy vehicle: wealth preservation, diversification, tangibility, tax advantages, and legacy appeal. A powerful message every family needs to hear.
The 26% Stat
Five Reasons Plans Fail
Estate Planning Tools
Precious Metals Legacy
The Forgotten Man
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Saturday Wisdom — When Liquidity Dries Up: Silver, Banks, and the Crisis You Never See Coming
A deep dive into liquidity crises: what they are, how they hit everyday people, and why silver's collateral potential matters. We fact-check the claims, walk through history's worst liquidity crises, introduce the Liquidity Pulse — three new Scoreboard metrics — and show how to track financial stress in real time.
Liquidity Crises
Silver as Collateral
The Liquidity Pulse
Financial Stress Tracking
The Forgotten Man
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Labor Day Special — The Working Man's Silver: Why Labor Day and Stacking Belong Together
From behind the golden microphone: the real history of Labor Day — Pullman, Cleveland, and the election-year calculation that created the holiday — and why the Forgotten Man of 1894, a railroad worker fighting for a fair wage, is the stacker of 2026 fighting for fair tax treatment of real money. Same fight. Same people. Different century.
Labor Day History
The Forgotten Man
Honest Work, Honest Money
Silver Stacking
Fair Tax Treatment
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