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To: #Breeze who wrote (207461)	12/27/2025 12:08:49 PM
From: Bonefish	1 Recommendation Recommended By the traveler Respond to of 207797

Thanks. I figure they will try to stop it.

To: #Breeze who wrote (207461)	12/27/2025 12:40:43 PM
From: nicewatch	2 Recommendations Recommended By roguedolphin techtrader73 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 207797

Margin requirements are almost always a function of price to keep the inherent leverage of a contract at a consistent level. Silver has risen rapidly in recent months hence the rise in margin requirements. Some brokers will even adjust this farther at their discretion. Occasionally volatility is given as a reason for margin change but it's almost always the underlying price of the commodity/index. That has nothing to do with what happened to the Hunt Brothers. They had been buying silver futures for a while and were taking delivery of the physical instead of rolling over contracts as most paper shufflers do. When silver went bubblicious in 1979 and January 1980, the Comex abruptly changed the rules at the January peak and said no new buy orders were allowed, only liquidating orders, and the price quickly collapsed. The silver squeeze in London the other month appears to have hit NYC Comex. Shanghai silver futures are trading at a record premium to NYC now ~$6 per ounce. fwiw.