Well I was cautious enough on Silver in late '79 and with flipping houses both using the bank's money in 1979-81 to know when to get out safely 'early' with my pockets full. BUTTTTTTTT I wasn't so cocky as to jump in front of the freight train and scream 'stop now' either. I always remember the old saying "A market can remain irrational a lot longer than you can remain solvent." And "topping markets" can hang in there for some time historically. I do recall Silver would sell off hard and when everyone said "AHA" and shorted the crap out of it price would rebound and blow their socks off. Then the hot shots and dumb money baby Silver bulls would load the boat again also saying "AHA" and then price would plunge again. I knew more Silver bulls and bears back then that "BOTH" got blown away and I don't know any of them that made out good. So I was glad I just moved on without getting caught up in the GIMMI,GIMMI,GIMMI stage and traded sound sensible dependable markets. The final stage of a run up tends to do this with volatile choppy whip saw price action caused by short covering more buying and dumb money getting in and out and stops being hit both ways. Not a pretty sight. And no one know how far Silver could run. Back in '79-'80 $10-$20 silver was considered insane. And in 4.75 months it was $50 and back to about $10 in less time than that. Not a good idea to get caught up in the 'thrill' of it all really. Not cheap thrills in the end for most. There are other fish to fry,lol...........