Friday, May 29, 2009

Silver juniors, a year-to-date chart

Some guy mailed me the other day with a chart showing the recent performance of the total dog and retail scamtrap ECU Silver (ECU.to) versus smart, well run Fortuna (FVI.v) with a kind of "ahahaaa you're wrong, sucker" note attached. Well yeah, in the last couple of weeks ECU.to has popped while FVI.v has seen my trade rise "only" 20% or so (can't you feel my heart breaking?), but maybe seeing a range of peer junior silver stocks and how they've performed in 2009 is a better gauge of the companies in question.

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EDR.to and GPR.to have both popped the hardest. After all these companies have enjoyed the leverage of high cash costs relative to the improved spot prices for silver (just a fancy way of saying that even these dogs can make a profit with $15/oz Ag). Then comes FVI.v, then MAG.to and FR.to level pegging.

And what's that one at the bottom? Oh yeah, it's ECU.to. Woof woof.