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What To Do About Silver
The largest silver ETF by assets and volume, SLV, has rallied about 28% this year. Assuming you are not already long, what is the best way to enter a new trade?
Speed Matters
We observe that the price ratio of silver to gold is approaching levels unseen since September of 2019. A large chunk of this rally has happened over the last few trading days.
The recent sharp rally has also caused silver volatility to abruptly spike. The interesting aspect of this spike in volatility is that, in contrast to the March volatility spike, the speed of inversion in the volatility term structure has been much faster this time. Due to its high speed, we consider this inversion to be much more temporary than the one we observed in March.
We believe there may be opportunity to profit from this sudden inversion by selling short-term and buying mid-term volatility through call option calendars.

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