Well, as we all know very well, gold and silver have industrial/commercial values. Metals like copper, aluminum, titanium, carbide, all are pretty good metrics of actual world demand. It ebbs and flows but if you draw a line across the mean point of every month for a year you can pretty well track how active the world production economy really is.
I bank on carbide, it is down now, and I bought some carbide at prices near double what I am buying now, at that time I was selling carbide short while prices were high and only keeping what I didn't directly pay for like sludge and filters. I am still buying carbide now and then but am NOT selling short. Why would I? Carbide is a production item, meaning it has value in it's use, directly so. I can hold on to it long term and bank that it is just about inflation proof in a five or ten year span.
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