Past performance is not an indicator of future returns. The ultimate truism.
Cycles culminate with extremely poor sentiment for the soon-to-be-bullish asset so your articles are to be expected.
I'm happy to wait for the correction mate with my safety assets.
PS: I was long in ASX stocks (telco, aged care, renewables, industrials) until the end of 2016 and did well

, but now is not the time to be a sheeple with traditional assets valuations being so high.
By dissing silver and other PM's you are doing everyone on HC a disservice IMHO. One just needs to view these things as an investment and be PATIENT.