| Both gold and silver have been under selling pressure for a majority of the past few years. However, last year, silver prices were hit much harder than gold prices. In fact, gold was down just over one percent on the year while silver fell nearly 20 percent. This got me thinking about the gold to silver ratio (price per ounce of gold divided by price per ounce of silver).
Silver’s underperformance in 2014 is pretty glaring. And this acceleration has pushed the gold to silver ratio toward an extreme. Based on the chart below, it is likely that silver will begin to outperform gold at some point in 2015. This is due to the Relative Strength Index (RSI) of the ratio nearing a point where a reverse in trend has occurred in the past...............................................Full Article: Source
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