Time to Trade Silver for Gold
OPPORTUNITY ALERT!
Use the Smart Money Strategy the Pros Use!
With paper currencies falling apart under a generational spree of unpayable government debt, and a global monetary reset of historic proportions underway, we don’t ever recommend selling your gold and silver, both top performing assets again in 2025.
However…
There is a strategy the pros use to increase their holdings of gold and silver over time without making additional purchases.
Sound too good to be true? Not at all.
Gold and silver don’t move in lockstep. They generally move in the same direction, but sometimes gold appreciates faster, at other times (like in the last year) silver rises faster.
We recommend emphasizing ownership of the precious metal poised to climb the most. And we use the price ratio (how many ounces of silver is equivalent to an ounce of gold) to indicate which metal is relatively underpriced on an historic basis.
Don’t think of this as complicated. Just imagine that before silver’s big move you had noted the Gold/Silver Ratio suggested silver was underpriced, while gold had already benefited from a solid move up. If you had traded your gold for silver, you would have enjoyed owning silver as it far outpaced gold.
Similarly, after a big climb in the silver price such as we have seen, the Gold/Silver Ratio suggests that gold now has some catching up to do. If so, this would be time to lock in silver’s remarkable appreciation by trading it for gold.
This smart money strategy, which we have used ourselves for a very long time, can be remarkably effective. You remain in the safety of gold and silver ownership at all times!
Those are the basics. You will want to discuss it with a Republic Monetary Exchange gold and silver professional to see how it can benefit your portfolio. Meanwhile, here are some details.
Last spring the Gold/Silver Ratio was 105 to 1.
That is the highest in many years, so we issued a special OPPORTUNITY ALERT! Gold had outpaced silver, so we recommend trading gold for silver. And indeed, silver then powered higher and higher.
As of the posting of this article on January 5, 2026, the Gold/Silver Ratio is 59:1.
That suggests that gold is now underpriced relative to silver.
For illustration purposes, using the spot prices of the metals, ignoring transaction costs and premiums, can help make the strategy clear. And instead of using the exact highs and lows of the Gold/Silver Ratio, we’ll just use 100 to 1 and 60 to one.
Suppose you had 10 ounces of gold last spring and traded it for 1,000 ounces of silver. That was the right place to be. Then, with silver racing ahead, and the ratio dropping to 60 to 1, you would trade those 1,000 ounces of silver for 16.66 ounces of gold. In this hypothetical example you have increased you gold position by 66 percent. In less than a year!
This is a strategy that makes a great deal of sense for most people.
We thought we should add one more thing to this alert. It is not a predicition of what will happen. Instead it is a speculative example of what can happen during today’s monetary turbulence and global currency reset.
Because it is our job to ponder these things so we can provide you sound advice, we have thought about what would happen in a crisis, in a hyperinflation, in a general monetary breakdown. If gold were remonetized to stabilize condiitons it would be at a very high price.
Today as you know, silver is a dual-role precious metal. It has vast and growing technological applications. But it also is a monetary metal. If gold were suddenly remonetized it’s price would surge. But making gold money again would diminish the monetary demand for silver. There would be a worldwide stampede by central banks, governments, institutions and individuals into gold. It would be revalued sharply higher, while silver would lose at least some of its monetary premium.
In other words those who employed the Gold/Silver Ratio by emphasizing gold in their portfolios would have made a timely and very profitable move.
This discussion is intended to help you understand why gold and silver each march to separate drummers. We believe this creates an important opportunity of profit and safety for our friends and client. We urge you to discuss it with your Republic Monetary Exchange gold and silver expert. You can call us during business hours at (602) 955-6500 or schedule a phone call.
You will be glad you did.
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