Coba jelasin Fakta mempengaruhi harga perak dari Perak sebagai pelaburan dalam bahasa melayu dong

Dari 1973 Hunt brothers bermula cornering the market dalam perak, membantuk untuk menyebabkan suatu tikaman pada 1980 $49.45 tiap auns troy dan pengurangan nisbah emas/perak bawah ke 1:17.0 (emas juga memuncak pada 1980, di $850 tiap auns troy). Pada lewat sembilan bulan 1979, adik-beradik telah dianggarkan memegang melebihi 100 juta auns troy perak dan beberap kontrak hadapan perak besar troy. Meskipun, suatu penggabungan peraturan perdagangan diubah pada New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) dan pengantaraan Federal Reserve menamatkan permainan ini.

Pada 1997, Warren Buffett membeli 130 juta auns troy (4,000 ton metrik) perak di lebih kuranf $4.50 tiap auns troy (jumlah harga $585 juta). Pada Mei 6, 2006, Buffett mengumumkan pada para pemegang saham bahawa syarikatnya tidak lagi memegang perak.

Pada April 2006 iShares melancarkan dana dagang tukaran perak, digelar iShares Silver Trust (), yang pada April 2008 memegang 180 juta auns troy perak sebagai simpanan.

The large concentrated short position The CFTC publishes a weekly Commitments of Traders Report which shows that the four or fewer largest traders are holding 90% of all short silver contracts. Furthermore, these four or fewer traders were short a total of 245 million troy ounces (as of April 2007), which is equivalent to 140 days of production. According to Ted Butler, one of these banks with large silver shorts, JP Morgan Chase, is also the custodian of the SLV silver ETF. Some silver analysis has pointed to a potential conflict of interest, as close scrutiny of Comex documents reveals that ETF shares may be used to 'cover' Comex physical metal deliveries. This leads analysts to speculate that some stores of silver have multiple claims upon them. On 2008-09-25 the CFTC relented and probed the silver market after persistent complaints of foul play. On September 1, 2010, Bloomberg reported that JP Morgan Chase will be closing their Proprietary Trading Desk.

Industrial demand The use of silver in items such as electrical appliances (silver is the highest known conductor of electricity), photovoltaics (one of the highest reflectors of light), clothing and medical uses (silver has antibacterial properties) has increased since 2001. New applications for silver are also being explored in batteries, superconductors and microcircuits, which may further increase non-investment demand. The expansion of the middle classes in emerging economies aspiring to Western lifestyles and products may also contribute to a long-term rise in industrial usage. Even so, due to the advent of digital cameras the enormous reduction in the use of silver halide-based photographic film has tended to offset this.