NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Silver prices are up 49% in 2011. Day after day the metal keeps hitting new 31-year records. Traders keep waiting for some kind of fierce and furious correction, but so far silver keeps heading higher. Silver is now eying its all-time record it reached in 1980 of $50 an ounce.
One of biggest recent catalysts has been the U.S. dollar hitting its lowest point since November 2009. Now dollar-backed commodities must watch out for the $72 level, which is its 2008 low.
Mark Arbeter, chief technical strategist at Standard & Poor's Equity Research wrote in a recent note that if the dollar keeps sinking gold and silver "will enter blowoff stages." Arbeter predicts that silver could spike to $65 while gold could hit $1,650-$1,800 an ounce "before this part of its bull market ends."
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