Stock price when the opinion was issued
Silver normally bottoms right around this time of year. The sector has a tendency to recover very strongly right through until around the beginning of October. It has another period of seasonal strength from around the end of December right through until February each year. Technically, 3 weeks ago, silver was trading at $14.62 per ounce. Gold was $1140. Since that time, silver is at the same price as it was 3 weeks ago, while the price of gold has gone down from $1140 to about $75 per ounce. This means silver is already starting to show seasonality coming into effect. The other factor is if the US$ starts to weaken, which it has started to do, that will be positive for both gold and silver.
Silver has presented itself as an excellent opportunity in the last few years. We’ve seen gold and silver go down in the month of December and it’s presented a really good value opportunity in the end of December. The seasonal period is from January 1st to March 31st for silver and the sweet spot is really in January into the beginning of February, so good seasonal trade. Technicals are setting up very similarly. We’ve seen the correction come down and we’re starting to see a bit of an uptick in silver.
HUZ is the Horizons ETF and which tracks the commodity, not silver stocks. HZU is the betapro 2x exposure to silver. These ETFs are very dangerous. They're for trading, not for buy and hold. He's not aware of a silver miner-based ETF in Canada. You could take a quick look at Sprott's suite of products including PSLV.