Gold has slipped from above $5,200 while crypto bleeds and silver dumps, exposing “store of value” as a question of volatility, leverage and time horizon, not memes.
Summary
- Gold has dropped about 10–15% from its early‑March spike above $5,200 to around $4,560, but remains structurally elevated and keeps finding dip buyers near the mid‑$4,500s.
- Silver has been hit harder, sliding roughly 20% this month back toward the low‑$70s per ounce, underscoring its role as the high‑beta “altcoin” of the metals complex.
- Crypto is mirroring the direction with more violence: BTC stuck in the high‑$60,000s to low‑$70,000s, total market cap around $2.4 trillion, and…
