Gold & Silver Trades, 2025 Here are our Premium Service option trades for 2025. There are a dozen trades in this table with a total of 9 winners, one loss and two exits at breakeven. This is based on our money management rules of (1) a -50% hard stop from entry, (2) moved to a breakeven stop once trade is up 100% snd (3) a trailing 50% stop as trade return exceeds 100%. Individual returns will vary based on application of these money management rules, but on average, returns should be close to the average gain per trade, currently +339%. Premium Service GLD & SLV Trades, 2025 Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Of special note are two ten-baggers, the Aug 4 GLD $325C and the Sep 10th SLV $40C. Both of these gained over 1,000% if held to expiration. Also noteworthy is that out of 12 trades there was only one outright loss, the April 7th GLD Puts. Once into early June, both Gold and Silver were in established uptrends and our system triggered a series of Long trades in both precious metals which has carried us into the final week of the year. This up-trend, as most famously described by the late Marty Zweig, was most certainly our friend throughout the latter half of the year. Discussion The reason for leading off the last Weekend Update of the year with this summary of our GLD & SLV trades for the year is to emphasize two key key elements of our trading system. First, identifying a tradable trend. It took the month of April to do so, but that served us well for the rest of the year. Secondly, to illustrate the effectiveness of money management stops. We cut losses at -50%, preserving capital to trade another day. The rest is a little tricky because the 50% trailing stop system carries a lot of individual discretion, i.e., once the trailing stop is triggered you can exit an entire position, or only half, hanging onto the other half until expiration. So the returns shown above reflect average returns using the defined stops that may reflect higher, or lower returns, depending on individual tolerance for risk. Risk adverse traders (oxymoron?) should strictly apply the trailing stops, while those willing to take on additional risk should hold onto positions as long as possible, but never so long as to let a gain turn into a loss. Why is This Important? Because its too early to speculate on what will be the "GLD & SLV" trades of 2026. It could be GLD and SLV again, or maybe its TSLA's turn to lead the headlines in the new year. My best guess is it will be a directional bet on Nasdaq to the downside, then, a reversal that is led by TSLA, maybe triggered by the SpaceX IPO. Whatever the case, we will be using the same option strategies next year as we have been using since 2010, the, if it ain't broke don't fix it, school of option trading. How do we know it ain't broke? Train your gaze on the table above. Silver, Long, Long Term This is one explanation of what is happening in Silver, a dynamic Wave 3 advance that is heading much higher over the next couple of years. A second more tempered interpretation is that we are in a blow-off top of an intermediate term advance. For our trading purposes, it doesn't matter what Silver doing, we are long and minimum expectation should be an exit upon either the triggering of the 50% trailing stop or the expiration of our calls, whichever comes first. For a more aggressive take, see Silver Weekly - Logarithmic chart below. Wild Card On January 1, 2026 China implements export controls on Silver. This will significantly tighten the already strained global silver supply, with some experts speculating that China will then control 70% of the global silver supply. Some of the recent Silver price rise can be attributed to supply demand concerns, but, its also possible that the real Silver spike lays still ahead. Silver could be at the beginning of the greatest wealth transfers in modern history. Just saying. Bottom Line We have been riding Silver with aggressive out-of-the-money calls since early summer, 2025, with very positive returns to show it. Going forward we will be monitoring and trading this asset via SLV and branching out to Gold/Silver miners as price breakouts occur. Stock Charts - Gold/Silver Miners We are already long calls in SLV and GLD, leaving these two precious metal miner ETF's as prime candidates for new exposure to the sector. Look for a Special Alert any day next week (market is closed Thursday) to buy calls, pending market developments. GDX Weekly GDX Feb $100 Calls Feb Calls on Gold/Silver Miners could be our very next Premium Service recommendations, pending silver market developments in the days ahead. Leading candidates this weekend, GDX (above) and SIL (below) SIL 2-Day SIl Feb $100C Silver Weekly Logarithmic Log Scale ---> Sends Silver into Triple Digits...and then some. Active Trades PRO Service Premium Service
