The silver market tried to tie its wagon to the gold market and to the flight to quality psychology and for the early portion of the trade today silver prices were mostly positive. However, just ahead of mid session a slight tempering of losses in the equity markets seemed to knock silver prices down into negative ground and that hints at a lingering deflation or slowing fears just under the surface in the silver market. Clearly sharp losses in copper and platinum prices, as well as a host of other physical commodity markets were seemingly undermining silver prices in either a direct or indirect fashion.