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Commodity trading provides an ideal asset allocation, also helps one hedge against inflation and also helps buy a piece of global demand growth. The price of silver has been very volatile historically. Although the ratio of gold to silver prices has varied over the past, in recent times we observe that silver prices follow gold prices and may act as a substitute for them in the future. This article tries to identify the major factors that cause volatility in the silver prices and analyze in detail the impact of these factors on the silver prices.

Keywords

Silver Price, Commodity Market, Volatility.

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