I think we have some more bumps in the road, more ups and downs, but that's great for those who want to buy during the dips. Timewise, if you're looking at the purchase as an investment and are in for the long-term, then specific time it will hit $100 again won't matter and won't stress you out. Personally, I don't think it will be long before it rises over $100, but Physical Silver is still battling with the Paper market, and the last few crashes have been attributed to their shenanigans, but that's going to be coming to an end once they all get rid of their short positions and switch to long. Plus, our Gov't has stated publicly that they're looking at setting a price floor for Silver, to insure it's profitable for miners & refiners to continue operations. Since Silver is now a strategic metal, the Gov't needs to insure its survival and availability for their uses. So, at some point soon, there will be a minimum floor price for Silver that manipulators won't be able to go below. The Paper Market is losing power as the price of physical Silver continues to shift more and more over to market demand.
But one things for sure IMHO, the continual manipulation and constriction of Silver's price is coming to an end. There's no way around the fact that the demand for physical Silver continues to exceed the available supply, so prices will have to rise, no getting around the law of Supply & Demand. For instance, Over the last year, I acquired hardware and parts to build a new PC. Last year, I bought a 64Gb RAM kit and IIRC, I paid around $250 or so, as memory was freely available and fairly cheap. But now, there's currently a shortage of memory chips that can be used to manufacture RAM, SSD's, etc. The prices are now insane due to Supply & Demand. That same 64Gb RAM kit I bought last year for around $250 is now selling for around $900, so price has literally tripled - quadrupled in the last 6 months. So, same thing is in store for Silver, extremely high, constantly growing demand but nowhere near enough supply to meet the demand means prices have no choice but to continue rising. Once Physical totally breaks free from the Paper Market manipulators, price will be based on market demand.
