Silver realities
Five Ways Silver Is Not Gold
Every one of these makes a silver-secured facility behave differently, and none of them is usually explained before you sign.
Tell us the form as well as the quantity. With silver, form changes the number more than people expect.
65%
Advance against market value
$15k
Minimum loan — a lot of silver at current prices
Sealed
Monster boxes verify by seal, which saves you money
Same
The same boxes and bars come back
5 silver realities
Read these before deciding between borrowing against silver or gold.
Volatility & Margin Calls
Silver moves more than gold. The same 65% advance therefore has less room before the loan-to-value goes out of range.
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Bulk & Freight
The same value in silver occupies roughly seventy times the volume of gold. Everything downstream of that — freight, handling, storage — follows from it.
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The Gold-Silver Ratio
A question we get often from people holding both, and the honest answer has nothing to do with predicting the ratio.
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Storage Economics
Storage is priced on space and handling rather than on worth, which is why silver storage costs more per dollar stored than gold does.
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Liquidity at the End
Every secured facility ends one of two ways: you repay, or the collateral is sold. It is worth understanding in advance how quickly your particular silver would move.
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Next step
Run it both ways before you decide.
No credit check and no obligation. Tell us what you hold and what the money is for, and if selling is the better answer for your situation you will be told that first.
Business purpose only. Not available in Nevada, Vermont, North Dakota and South Dakota.