Silver as an asset for investment diversification

[r_victory]

Silver is a great asset to invest in. Recently, it has reached highs that are worth keeping an eye on. Many people seek out the most "famous" investments and undervalue others that could, over time, yield good profits or serve as a good store of value.

[Dogedegen]

There we have it today was finally a bad day for silver after a long rally. It is down almost 9% in a day. This is a great example of why people should not complain about Bitcoin's volatility when its swings are very low compared to how new it is and far from establishing itself. If Silver can crash 9% in a day with centuries of history behind it and widespread industrial use, when Bitcoin crashes the same or more it should not be mentioned at all. The article below talks about the recent negative price performance.

https://www.financialcontent.com/article/marketminute-2025-12-29-the-silver-squeeze-of-2025-cme-margin-hikes-trigger-flash-crash-to-7372-amid-silver-thursday-fears

Silver is a great asset to invest in. Recently, it has reached highs that are worth keeping an eye on. Many people seek out the most "famous" investments and undervalue others that could, over time, yield good profits or serve as a good store of value.

You didn't really explain why you think it is a great asset. The inflation adjusted performance of silver is terrible. You can't just look at the number in USD and make a comparison, that is not how money works. $72 which is the current price of silver is very different from $72 of 10 or 20 years ago.

Personally I don't invest in anything I don't understand, and to me the value of silver is pretty easy to see. It is used heavily in industry
because it is the most electrically conductive metal on earth while also being very anti-heat and corrosion resistant. Your computer, cellphone,
electric vehicle, solar panels, etc. would not function without silver. The modern world would basically not exist without it.

But to this day I still don't understand what the value of altcoins are other than being pump and dump schemes. They can pump up for a day
or two before plummeting 20, 40% or more in value just as quickly, so you better know when to get out before losing your shirt.

I consider gold and silver to be real investments while altcoins are just pure gambling and speculation.
IMO the only crypto with real value are bitcoin and stablecoins.

Your positions don't make sense at all to me. At first you have a strong belief in silver and you explain why it is so, but you consider something to be a real and good investment based on its demand even if it has very bad price performance? That is not what is usually referred to as a good investment, it is all about the price performance and that is not what silver has going for it. Look at the inflation adjusted chart and you will see that in a decade it barely had any return at all.

The second thing is about altcoins. You don't see anything in them but then you talk about real value being in stablecoins. How do you think stablecoins operate? They just happen to exist internet? They operate on specific altcoin networks and this utility that comes through the presence of these stablecoins is what gives some of them value. No altcoin blockchain, no stablecoin. And this is all how it should be according to your view. I agree that most altcoins are completely useless but then you can't bring up stablecoins being valuable without valuing the network that is required for them to operate. I am not a fan of stablecoins because they are not stable at all, their value is constantly fluctuating with the underlying fiat.

[Abu-Naim]

Hello, everyone!
I read a lot about markets, cryptocurrencies, of course, but also other assets, such as metals, precious metals, of course. Gold, platinum, palladium are good options, but the entry price is quite high, which means that not everyone can afford to buy them in significant bars. And then silver comes to mind. First, there are many “hints” that the metal is currently undervalued. Second, it is quite affordable today.
The essence of the question is this: there is an idea to diversify part of the stablecoins into something that will not be subject to inflation, such as the dollar value of stablecoins, and has the potential to grow in value in the same dollar.
The question is: what do you think?
I'm interested in your assessment of both the idea itself and the idea of silver.

I know about silver for very long time the same time with gold, but the price of gold is always more than five times the price of silver, this means it’s not fast in growth in the market, and I don’t think it worth investing on because it doesn’t have the value gold have, and gold is commanding more respect than silver. Alternatively, invest in gold, you will make profit, if you invest in silver, you will be angry because almost every other investment have more fast growth than silver.

Metals in general are investments for people that have enough capital to do importation and expiration, it is not a business for small scale business men because if needs big capital to set up, and it is very risky.