If you have a long term investment horizon on silver then the current low price, whatever it is caused by, will only serve to fuel the demand base, innovation in new applications (eg medical and solar) and of course lay the foundations for a very bright future that assumes silver supplies aren't going to dwindle. There is little incentive for current users to look to diversify away from silver based feedstocks, there is certainly not going to be any recycling going on and base metal miners are closing down mines (secondary silver supplies).
I hope the charts do break down for silver. It is short term pain for long term gain. Market manipulation distorts markets leading to bigger bull markets than otherwise would have been the case. It is bullish for long term holders and it represents a good opportuniy to average down prices if you have the balls to keep buying.
