You might have noticed this thing called "gold" and "silver" skyrocketing, but the fact is if you invest in the "miner" stocks you might be disappointed occasionally. You'll find that in order to hedge their profits, miner companies tend to buy large "put" options against themselves in order to secure profit (but give up larger gains), kinda similar to you'd do in sports betting if you have a 10-team parlay and you have 9 of them hit. Also, not helping is that publicly traded companies always want to have "steady" growth in profits vs large bursts of profits that came from nowhere. (Large quarterly profit results set the bar higher for the next quarter; it's the same tactic AAPL has been doing forever; sandbag the next quarter by always giving lower than expected guidance the previous quarter.)
So if you're wondering why stocks like GOLD and NEM aren't shooting to the moon, now you know why; and it's also the same reason why I'm waiting for a slight dip before I jump back in again.