After the price of silver smashed through a record $100 per ounce milestone in late January, many investors would be forgiven for expecting the metal to continue its remarkable surge upward largely unimpeded. After all, that's what largely happened with gold, silver's counterpart, rising in price from under $3,000 in early 2025 to comfortably over $5,000 in early 2026. And with silver more than doubling over that same period, investors ranging from beginners to more experienced likely expected