Start Trading Now Get Started

Silver Forecast: Struggles to Hold onto Gains

By Christopher Lewis
Senior Technical Analyst

Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for tra...

Read more
  • Silver shows signs of potential exhaustion near key resistance.
  • While $51.50 remains a crucial breakout point, failure to hold above $50 could trigger a deeper pullback or signal a short-term peak.

Silver has been very noisy over the last couple of days as we shot straight up in the air. But it’s a market where it’s worth noting that we are kind of hanging around in the same area that I’ve been talking about over the last couple of days, with $50 extending all the way to the $51.50 level for resistance. At this point, the fact that we are giving back a little bit of the gains suggests that if we were to break down below the $50 level, we could perhaps drop toward the $48 level.

Silver Forecast 12/11: Struggles to Hold onto Gains (graph)

Can We Bounce

Top Regulated Brokers

1
Get Started 74% of retail CFD accounts lose money Read Review

The question at this point is whether or not we stay in this area and then bounce, or do we break down below the 50-day EMA to completely collapse? The other scenario is that we break up above the $51.50 level and probably send this market, I would assume, on a new level higher. This looks to me like a classic extension, distribution, sell, and then reattempt-to-continue pattern before we sell off. I wouldn’t short silver here; I’m just saying that’s something you need to watch because, quite frankly, if we lose the 50-day EMA, silver probably plunges for quite some time.

There are a lot of different narratives lifting silver at the moment, not the least of which would be central bank policy and fears of easing, but there’s a US dollar shortage out there. Furthermore, the EV sector likes silver, and the AI sector supposedly likes silver as well, but math and the data centers make no sense, and I think Wall Street is starting to wake up to that. So, it’s possible that silver may have peaked. We’ll just have to wait and see.

The $51.50 level, for me, is pretty important. Really above there, then I think you’re starting to talk about really ripping to the upside again. But the very interesting candle that we’re printing for the day on Tuesday just shows that maybe we’re not as excitable as we once were—and that actually is a good thing. I thought we needed more sideways action before continuing the uptrend. We’ll just have to wait and see if I’m correct, but this to me looks a little suspicious.

Ready to trade our daily forex analysis and predictions? Here are the best Silver trading brokers to choose from.

Senior Technical Analyst
Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for traders who rely on technical setups to navigate volatile market conditions

As seen on: Pairs Of Aces Podcast,The Trader Guy, FXEmpire

Most Visited Forex Broker Reviews