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Short-Term Trading  Jan 31  Comment 
Options traders apparently think the ETF will trade sideways for the next two months Traders sold roughly 33,500 April 16 puts and the same amount of April 16 calls netting a credit of $2.05 as volume surpassed open interest in both strikes. SLV...
Short-Term Trading  Jan 21  Comment 
On 19 January in Breakfast With Dave, David Rosenberg wrote: The reality is that bullish sentiment on gold right now is infinitely higher than it is for silver Silver pieces going all the way back to pre-biblical times were the...
The Technical Take  Jan 20  Comment 
As a corollary to a higher Dollar, it is my expectation that precious metals will be under pressure. For example, I have had a sell signal on the SPDR Gold Trust (symbol: GLD) since January 11, 2010 . Gold still remains in a...
Fund my Mutual Fund  Jan 6  Comment 
There was a question if the strength in the dollar we saw in December was a year end "squaring off" or a counter trend move that could last a few months.  Thus far as 2010 unwinds it appears it was more of a year end tactical retrace.  That...
FX Street  Dec 30  Comment 
SLV - iShares Silver Trust – It looks as though commodity traders have it all to play for in 2010. Raw materials prices had surged especially late in 2009 as they felt the tailwind of a declining dollar. However, an abrupt about-face helped pull...
Fund my Mutual Fund  Dec 24  Comment 
As expected (I thought it might happen next week, but its come sooner than I thought) both Gold (GLD) ETF and Silver (SLV) ETF have worked off a steep decline, and now are in process of their cursory bounce into resistance levels.  [these are the...
Fund my Mutual Fund  Dec 17  Comment 
I have been buying silver exposure on this dip in drips and drabs the past week, 0.3% exposure here, 0.3% there [using Ultra Silver (AGQ)].  With King Dollar on fire, the knee jerk inverse relationship is in full swing and silver / gold is...
Fund my Mutual Fund  Dec 7  Comment 
Now that some air has been taken out of gold and silver, I'm SLOWLY (key word) rebuilding these positions.  With some purchases late Friday and this morning I am back from a 0.2% allocation (combined) to something around 1.4%.  (recall we...
FX Street  Dec 7  Comment 
Although the dollar is strong and the precious metals and iShares Silver Trust ETF (NYSE: SLV) are under pressure today, my work has been telling me to expect a correction in the complex coming into today, regardless of the reaction of the...
The Mess That Greenspan Made  Nov 25  Comment 
The iShares Silver Trust ETF (NYSEArca:SLV) has been adding to its inventory at a blistering pace in recent weeks - a whopping 512 tonnes in just the last nine days with 136 tonnes coming just yesterday. The price of the metal continues to push...



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iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV)

Overview

The objective of the iShares Silver Trust is for the value of the shares of the iShares Silver Trust to reflect, at any given time, the price of silver owned by the iShares Silver Trust at that time, less the iShares Silver Trust's expenses and liabilities.

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Fund Information

  • Fund Manager – iShares
  • Inception Date - 4/21/2006
  • Maturity Date -
  • Exchange – NYSE Arca
  • Index Ticker - SLV
  • Intra-day NAV Ticker – SLV.IV
  • Expense Ratio- 0.50%

Top Holdings

Silver [1]

ETF Name Fund Manager Expense Ratio
Powershares FTSE RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid Portfolio ETF (PRFZ)InvescoPoweshares0.95%
Powershares Zacks Micro Cap Portfolio ETF (PZI)ProShares ETFs0.95%
Powershares Zacks Small Cap Portfolio ETF (PZJ)ETF Securities0.98%
ProShares Short SmallCap 600 ETF (SBB)ETF Securities0.98%
ProShares Short SmallCap 600 ETF (SBB)UBS AG0.40%
ProShares Ultra SmallCap 600 ETF (SAA)iShares0.50%
ProShares Ultra SmallCap 600 ETF (SAA)DB Commodity Services0.75%
ProShares UltraShort SmallCap 600 ETF (SDD)DB Commodity Services0.95%
ProShares UltraShort SmallCap 600 ETF (SDD)ProShares ETFs0.95%
Rydex S&P SmallCap 600 Pure Growth ETF (RZG)ETF Securities0.98%
Rydex S&P SmallCap 600 Pure Growth ETF (RZG)ETF Securities0.49%
Rydex S&P SmallCap 600 Pure Value ETF (RZV)ETF Securities0.49%
Small Cap Bear 3X - Triple-Leveraged ETF (TZA)ETF Securities0.98%
Small Cap Bull 3X - Triple-Leveraged ETF (TNA)ETF Securities0.49%



References

  1. 1.0 1.1 [ http://us.ishares.com/product_info/fund/overview/SLV.htm?qt=SLV- iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV)]

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