Silver and Gold Perfchart
It has been a big year for gold, but an even bigger year for silver. As the Perfchart shows, $SILVER underperforms $GOLD on the way down and outperforms on the way up. Silver was down more than gold in April and July, but up more than gold in June and August. Notice that silver was already up over 5% when gold turned positive in early September.

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