Many precious metals fans have probably seen the study (can’t remember who to credit for it) of trading in silver over a multi decade period, showing the price during Comex trading hours vs non Comex trading hours. I forget the specifics but the takeaway was that for a 40 or 50 year period the price of silver was actually lower if you just looked at the Comex trading hours. This confirmed what we have known for quite some time now, that Silver is completely and totally manipulated and the price suppressed during Comex trading sessions. I have noticed two distinct changes recently in trading patterns in silver, one isn’t particularly important in of itself but the other is very important and I believe a large part of why I expect silver to finally break above 25 and challenge the two year high around 30 in the not too distant future. The less important change is the formerly “takedown Tuesday” pattern that I started pointing out almost from the time I joined Goldtent in April of 2000. Astute watchers of daily trading patterns on the Comex will have noticed that over the last few months this pattern has morphed more into an up Tuesday pattern with Wednesday’s now being the more likely day for smackdowns. While this change is not that important in of itself, it combines with the second and very important change. I watch this stuff closely and have noticed that for some time (at least two or three months)silver has actually been stronger during Comex trading hours than non Comex hours. My observations have been that where previously rallies would occur during the trading blocks of after 4PM EST and 8AM EST the next morning and selloff during Comex trading especially after the 8AM open, that has recently flipped. Now it is much more likely to see selloffs in overnite and early morning hours before the 8AM Comex open. The charts, the long 5 week period in which silver has consolidated while gold continued to rise, and this important flip in what happens during Comex trading hours, leads me to believe that Silver is about to break out of this sideways consolidation and tick off my earlier posted targets of 25, 26, 27 and 28 pretty much the way gold systematically ticked off all the previous targets that I had laid out for it in my posts over the last few months. I believe Silver’s turn to shine is upon us.