but silver does follow gold price in the "great contours" - when gold dips 20% silver will also do a dive. PM markets are very complex.
Are you sure about that? I don't follow the markets but I was under the impression that they were all mutually exclusive: gold, silver, diamond, platinum, etc. Going to have to look into this for personal knowledge now, lol.
I've followed gold and silver prices for the last 10 years, and I sold silver for 2 of those years. While the price of one may make a small change independent of the other, the large swings are almost always experienced by both.