“There’s plenty we could talk about with silver, but our goal is to make money. So let’s focus on answering just two questions: Is today’s price expensive or cheap? And, what are the best silver coins, ETFs, and stocks to own?”

The 2010 Silver Buying Guide

Silver has been sizzling and causing lots of buzz in the industry. Investors are excited.

Part of the hubbub is due to its current run. Since its February 8 low, silver has roared ahead 22.4% (through June 21) and has doubled from its November 2008 low.

This excitement has spilled over into greater investment demand – especially so for coins. The U.S. Mint sold more Silver Eagles in the first quarter of this year – just over nine million – than any prior quarter in its history. The Royal Canadian Mint produced 9.7 million silver maple leafs in 2009, also a record.

Take a look at the jump in U.S. Mint coin sales since 2007, on the chart above.

Silver bullion ETFs are growing, too, experiencing a five-fold increase in metal holdings since 2006.

There’s plenty we could talk about with silver, but our goal is to make money. So let’s focus on answering just two questions: Is today’s price expensive or cheap? And, what are the best silver coins, ETFs, and stocks to own?

We have all the answers straight ahead, including lots of actionable info, so let’s jump right in…

Why Should I Buy Silver?

There are several reasons to own silver in addition to gold.

…..read much more and view charts HERE

I bought another 500 shares of Canadian Energy Services today at $15.25 after they announced an increase in their dividend from 6 cent to 8 cents a month, for a 6.3% yield.  US expansion is obviously going well (though not so well that they need that capital to handle the growth there).  Q2 is their weakest quarter because of Canadian spring break up so this tells me those numbers should be very good compared to prior years – again, due to US expansion which is not so seasonal.  And recent buyouts in the sector would translate into a $26/sh valuation for CEU-TSX.  However, the stock already has a lot of future growth priced in.  I like it because I see it as a strong defensive stock in a very volatile energy market.

I now own 2000 shares.

Weekly Chart included by Money Talks

Hello, this is Keith Schaefer, editor and publisher of The Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin.  I started my subscription service in mid-2009 because I could see there was no place where retail investors could go to easily find which oil and gas companies were creating huge shareholder wealth by using exciting new technologies, such as horizontal drilling, fracing and 3D seismic.

I find the ones who have the capital and the knowledge to be the fastest growing in their area – this usually means they have a large undeveloped land position in an area where either production costs are very low or production rates can be very high.  They are covered by several research analysts, so there is research support and institutional money flow behind them.

U.S. Stock Market -If I said it once I said it a thousand times, until the last line of defense was broken (two consecutive closes below 1,040 on the S & P 500) to the downside, I would continue to give the “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” crowd the benefit of the doubt that they could still stretch this bear market rally into late summer.

On June 1st, I posted the above chart and said that we could still see a right shoulder formation that would give us a bearish head and shoulders formation that could coincide with the cyclical top I’ve been forecasting for June/July 2010 since this time last year. A rally back to 10,800 – 11,000 would actually be a good thing if you’re like me and haven’t taken your bear suit off the hanger and slipped it over your self again.

The U.S. stock market guidelines I gave in my June 11th update remain.

Gold – The “Mother” of all secular bull markets continues. Remember you all owe a buck for the “Tokyo Rose Relief Fund” when we hit $1,300

Via Dennis Gartman: IS GOLD REALLY A  SEASONAL TRADE: We ran across this “seasonal” chart of gold yesterday, and  if it can be believed…and we see no reason why it shouldn’t be… then gold is making a seasonal low here in mid‐June. For a Trial Subscription go to The Gartman Letter

Weekly Chart of Gold via Money Talks

Back to Peter Grandich:

Note of Interest – A 50 million+ share offering of NSU comes free trading today (was done at $2.25 Cdn). It will be interesting to see it trade given that vague takeover rumors persist.

Daily Chart of NSU.TO via Money Talks

Peter Grandich’s Things HERE

• The most bullish pattern continues – Two steps up, one step back
• Canada has moved so far left that if it went any further left, it would end up right
• Is this any way to treat heroes?
• Double standard
• My favorite currency – From Russia with love
• The next crisis
• A big drag
• Another stimulus attempt failure
• Iran gives the world the finger – again

On Major Moves, Peter Grandich has been very right and not only saved many investors fortunes, but expanded them dramatically. On November 3, 2007 at the MoneyTalks Survival Conference, Peter Grandich of the Grandich Letter warned that “an unprecedented economic tsunami will hit American beginning in 2008”.   Peter advised publicly to short the US market two days from the top in October, 2007 and stayed short until the last week of October, 2008. He began to buy stocks in March 7th,  2009. He also bought oil and oil related investments near the lows after the dive from $147.
….go to visit Peter’s Website

To HERE Peter speak and others speak on Trading go HERE: