Same metal. Same day. Three prices.
So which one is real?
Tokyo: $130
Shanghai (physical): $80
New York (COMEX): $71
This isn’t a glitch.
It’s a market structure failure.
🗽 New York — $71
This is paper silver.
COMEX trades leveraged contracts with minimal physical delivery. The screen shows $71 — but try sourcing real bars and the answer is the same: out of stock.
The price exists.
The metal doesn’t.
It’s a window price — the store is closed.
🇨🇳 Shanghai — $80
This is real physical silver.
The Shanghai Gold Exchange settles in metal, not promises. China needs silver for solar, EVs, and electronics — not paper hedges.
$80 is the industrial clearing price where silver actually changes hands.
China doesn’t play the Western paper game.
🇯🇵 Tokyo — $130
This is stress pricing.
Physical access is tight. Supply is scarce. Whoever holds metal names the price.
An 80% premium isn’t speculation — it’s a frozen market.
This is silver slipping into street-price territory.
❓ Why no arbitrage?
In theory, traders buy at $71 and sell at $130.
In reality, they can’t — because metal can’t be pulled out of New York.
Either logistics are broken…
or COMEX delivery risk is real.
📌 The truth:
$71 → label on the shop window
$80 → wholesale price where metal moves
$130 → panic price when trust breaks
This is a silver squeeze.
Paper prices will burn.
Physical prices will converge higher.
Metal remains.
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