. "I wish Archie told me when to dump." (ROFLMFAO)

Rich, the whole key in not getting burned, or caught short) was to dispose of the silver shortly after purchasing..... within a day or two... so you could go out and purchase more even if it was on the same day. Those who sat on huge quantities of it, over longer periods of time, looking for the price to go even higher, found out that silver didn't taste good in their cereal in the morning when it went from close to $50 to below $5.

Old Wall Street adage says that "sometimes the bulls win; sometimes the bears win; but a pig always loses......"