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Strategies & Market Trends : Technology Stocks & Market Talk With Don Wolanchuk
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Gold and Geopolitics Substack:

"The CME announced on Friday that silver futures margin requirements are going up again. Effective Monday, December 29th. Third hike in a month. Western silver is trading around $77, up 169% year-to-date, and the exchange that’s supposed to facilitate price discovery just keeps making it more expensive to play.

Now normally, margin hikes are used to crush the longs. That’s the playbook. That’s what happened to the Hunt Brothers in 1980. That’s what happened in 2011 when silver touched $49 and the CME raised margins five times in nine days. You jack up the cost of leverage until the speculators capitulate and the price collapses.

But here’s what’s different this time™.

The shorts are the ones who are fucked......................."

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He presents that stats of current COMEX Silver contracts by class of ownership and why it's different this time.
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