Silver is shining a big and bright buy signal.

Heck, most of the commodity market is as well. But I am partial to the shiny stuff. I mean, have you ever held a gold or silver ounce in your hand? It just feels like wealth.

What I really like is that I can go down to my local coin store, lay some fiat money on the counter, and walk away with some coinage. Nobody (like the government) ever needs to know that that transaction just took place.

Or you can buy some investment jewelry at very reasonable prices and service from Menē. (too bad they don't sell silver jewelry as the margins aren't profitable)

Plus, I like to know I have a pirate treasure. Arrgh!

All kidding aside, if history has anything to show us (and it always does), if you purchase silver now there is almost an absolute certainty that you will increase your wealth from it in the future.

Now, I can't say exactly when - but that day will come.

Here's why.

This chart shows the gold to silver ratio going all the way back to 1998. The higher the graph, the higher the silver to gold ratio was (meaning cheap silver).

Silver is naturally found in the Earth at a 9-to-1 silver to gold ratio. It hasn't traded there ever, or at least in a very long time so that it doesn't matter. What matters is that there is a historical precedent that if you buy silver when it is above a ratio of 75 silver ounces to one ounce of gold, that you will make money.

Right now that ratio is at 76.

As you can see, it never stays above the 75 ratio for long.

So buy now - but when to sell?

Again, the answer is in the chart. Somewhere below 50.

So all you need to do is buy silver now, and then wait for the ratio to drop down below 50 and you sell for a nice profit. You can also not sell, but trade it in for gold. Then when the ratio gets above 75 again, trade it back for silver.

You can buy coins, and I suggest everyone has at least some precious metals as investments, but you can also buy silver mining companies.

The benefit of owning shares of silver miners is that they benefit exponentially from the increase in the price of silver.

You see, they have fixed costs. They have fuel and machinery to buy. Employees to pay. They have all this overhead that doesn't go down if silver is cheaper. Most miners are having profitability problems right now.

But when the price of silver goes up, well that just increases their profits (and their share prices) immensely.

Now, if you can find some silver miners that are still profitable, or nearly profitable, at the current low prices - well they are going to be minting wealth.

My Top 6 Silver Miners For 2018

6: SilverCrest Metals (SVCMF) $1.68/Share - Market Cap $89M

5: Arizona Mining (WLDVF) $2.86/Share - Market Cap $890M

4: Endeavour Silver (EXK) $2.39/Share - Market Cap $314M

3: Great Panther Silver (GPL) $1.34/Share - Market Cap $227M

2: Avino Silver & Gold (ASM) $1.49/Share - Market Cap $77M

1: Silvercorp Metals (SVM) $2.73/Share - Market Cap $478M