2011年6月12日星期日

Silver ETF gets help from its friends

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美銀BAC)的大摩(MS)的小摩​​(摩根大通和黑石(BLR)“逆勢買白銀 ETF的-薩爾瓦多成了它目前最大的4個股東說明什麼

Silver ETF gets help from its friends

This fund's 4 largest holders support the metal's price by buying the physical commodity when prices fall.

By TheStreet Staff on Wed, Jun 8, 2011 12:56 PM
Image: Silver Bars (© Corbis)By Dan Dicker, TheStreet

Silver and BlackRock's silver ETF, iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV), have been the target of some wild rumors in the past several months.

The crazy stories have run the gamut around the financial blogosphere. One has JPMorgan (JPM) as a puppet of the Federal Reserve, establishing a huge proprietary bet against silver designed to pressure the dollar and reduce costs of monetary easing. Others have BlackRock (BLK) unable to satisfy its share demand with real silver stockpiles. Many observers claim that legitimate storage for the metal doesn't come anywhere near the almost 11,400 tons of physical silver that the trust reported holding at its extremes in late April of this year.

I don't need to go anywhere near those rumors. The facts about SLV alone are enough to make a great case for the manipulating effects of the ETF on the price of silver and the strong positives those manipulations can deliver to an investor who doesn't mind being part of a grand plan -- as long as it's a profitable one.
Let's have a quick look at the mechanics of this relatively new ETF and how it positively affects silver prices. SLV looks to represent shares with real physical silver, not derivatives or stocks of silver miners. The mechanism for connecting shares of the trust to the price of real silver is relatively simple.

As investor interest increases, sending shares of the trust higher, BlackRock continues to issue more shares, using the extra cash to buy and stockpile physical silver ingots. The speed with which it will issue shares and increase its physical holdings is dependent solely on how fast the differential moves between the actual price of physically traded silver and SLV's share price.

In fund-speak, this is called tracking the net asset value, or NAV, of the fund. If the NAV tracks too high to spot prices, shares go out to satisfy demand for the fund.

And appetites for SLV have been stunning. Since its inception in 2006 and initial stockpiling of 650 tons, SLV reached its 11,400-ton peak just over a month ago, an amount that represents almost half of all the silver being globally mined in a single year. Of course, this institutional hoarding system was a tremendous added influence to the price of silver, which recently peaked at more than $48 an ounce on April 29.

But what about the past month? With silver's price losing more than $10 an ounce, shouldn't SLV be working in reverse? If shares are normally issued as appetite for silver increases, shouldn't the number of shares and the stockpiled amount of silver decrease as the retail and institutional investor sell out?

It should and it is, but only to a certain degree. The mechanism of SLV implies that the fund would never need to sell any of its physical holdings, as long as the cash price keeps up with the share price -- or to put it in fund-speak again, if the NAV doesn't become too discounted.

So as long as appetite for the fund keeps relatively steady even as silver prices decline, the trust can continue to hold the enormous tonnage they've accumulated. That's good for long-term holders and the managers, of course, because silver prices are buoyed as hoarded stockpiles increase.

Recently, though, retail and institutional appetite did take a dip. But as silver prices swooned, other buyers have come in to take up much of the slack of the share selling that came with it.

But who were those buyers? Conspiracy advocates around the blogosphere won't be surprised to learn it's been the investment banks and trust managers themselves -- the sales force of the fund.

As evidenced by the 13F Edgar filings, SLV's four largest holders have now shifted hands from large institutional funds and into the hands of Bank of America (BAC), Morgan Stanley (MS), JPMorgan and Blackrock.

Besides using cheap funds from the discount window to make these purchases courtesy of Uncle Sam, they also manage to do much of their buying at a discount to NAV, in essence grabbing an immediate advantage compared to spot metal prices. It's become a tidy game.

And as retail and institutional interest in silver comes back, these banks and investment firms are well-placed to resell their accumulated shares at their leisure, above NAV and directly through their own sales teams inside their supposed Chinese walls.

It might sound shady, but it's all entirely legal.

The bottom line for the retail investor is that the trust managers and bank sales teams now have organic support from the proprietary desks at their own investment banks -- and can almost assure that silver won't get decimated in a deeper commodity pullback.
It is also true that silver is a minuscule market, and even tiny further interest generated by those sales teams will result in further spiking of prices, despite silver's already lofty numbers.

I hate to do it -- I don't like the system and it ought to be forbidden -- but silver and SLV look like a one-way street you can't afford not to be pointed down.

At the time of publication, Dicker had no positions in the securities mentioned in this article.

於此同時白銀持倉報告顯示

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Attacks on Gold Retailers

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Friday, June 10, 2011 at 6:42PM
We have been writing here at The Dollar Vigilante for nearly one year exactly, this coming July 1st, about such things as getting your gold outside of the control of your own government and about how US student loans are an entrapment for, what we believe, will be military conscription.
Canadian Government Raids Reputable Gold Retailer
In our subscription newsletter we warn subscribers every month to geo-politically diversify their gold holdings and to keep a significant portion outside of their home country.  We speak about it at nearly every investment conference and we have written about it numerous times in our Blog, including in the blog piece from last September entitled, "Get Your Gold Out of the US".  Interestingly, in that blog piece we also nominated now famous, Anthony Weiner, for our IPOD (Idiot Politician Of the Day).
In that piece we warned about how the US Government was looking to "regulate" gold selling companies.  Regulate is a code-word for, take-over, destroy or monopolise.
We have been warning that we expect this to happen regularly and today in Canada it did.
Kitco, a highly respected gold retailer, was raided by the Canadian province's version of the I.R.S. today.  Revenu Quebec, the province's tax collector, didn't press charges but says it has "reason to believe" that Kitco AND other gold retailers have avoided paying more than $150 million in taxes.
Kitco has been a highly respected and reputable precious metals dealer for decades in Canada and it is highly, highly unlikely that they have done anything improper.
What is much more likely is that the Government has begun to crack down on gold retailers.  Something we have warned about repeatedly.
It is for this reason that we advise subscribers to keep their gold holdings widely diversified amongst numerous countries, institutions, companies and locations to give yourself the best chance of avoiding being attacked and robbed by the government.
We often recommend some of the best countries and companies with which to store gold in our newsletter.  Often these vaults are located in capitalist, free-market non-western countries such as Hong Kong, Singapore and in freedom stalwarts such as Switzerland.
We expect many more of these types of attacks so if you have not diversified your gold holdings - especially outside of the control of your own home government - time is running out.