Silver: trend-following strategy vs buy & hold
Precious Metals · tracked with iShares Silver Trust (SLV)
Silver is both a precious metal and an industrial metal — used in electronics, solar panels and medicine. SLV holds physical silver.
Growth of 100 since 2006
buy & hold · total returnBuy & hold total return of iShares Silver Trust (SLV). The Strategy Alpha results and live signal for Silver are part of Plus.
What drives Silver
Silver tends to follow gold, but with bigger swings, and it also depends on industrial demand and the economic cycle.
How a trend-following strategy handles Silver
Silver's rallies can be explosive and its declines long and deep. Its higher volatility means position size and exit discipline matter more than with gold.
Our Strategy Alpha applies the same simple, rules-based trend filter to every market: invested while the trend is up, in Treasury bills while it is down, checked once a month. It is not a forecast — it is a discipline that aims to keep most of the long climbs and sit out the deepest drawdowns.
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Educational content, not investment advice. Backtested results are hypothetical and do not guarantee future results. Disclaimer.