I have been trading futures for nine years. Futures trading is something I have been doing for a time specifically, for twenty years and I am still involved with futures.

I have seen a lot of ups and downs in the market including crashes and squeezes and lots of volatility. The market can be really volatile with swings, in prices and sometimes it even crashes, which is really scary and then there are times when the market gets squeezed which is also very volatile.

I have never seen the CME do something, like this before. The CME is raising margins on a commodity.. They are raising them by a lot. Thirty percent overnight. This is a deal because the CME does not usually raise margins on a major commodity by that much. The CME is raising margins on a commodity and it is a big increase.

for the second time in a single week.

Look at the document attached (Notice #25-399).

Effective tomorrow, January 2nd:

They just raised the maintenance margin for Silver. It used to be $25,000. Now it is $32,500. That is an increase of 30 percent for Silver. This change affects Silver trading so people who trade Silver need to know about it. The new maintenance margin, for Silver is $32,500.

– Platinum: Hiked +25%

– Palladium: Hiked +22%

When the Exchange increases margins much they are not really managing risk. The Exchange is doing this to protect itself. It is affecting the people who trade on the Exchange. The Exchange is supposed to help people buy and sell things. When the Exchange hikes margins this aggressively it is like the Exchange is trying to control everything. The Exchange is not managing risk it is just making it harder for people to trade on the Exchange.

They are making the company liquidate its assets. The people, in charge are forcing the company to sell off everything. This means the company is going to have to get rid of all its property and possessions. The company is being forced into liquidation.

People are aware that hedge funds and retail traders use borrowed money to trade. When the people in charge suddenly increased the amount of money needed for each contract by $7,500 it forced the people who bought stocks, the Longs to sell their stocks just so they do not go bankrupt. The Longs have to sell their stocks because they need the money to meet the requirements, for hedge funds and retail traders.

They want to stop the market from going up. This sell-off is not real it is something that people made happen on purpose. The whole thing is meant to kill the momentum of the market.

The price of Physical Silver is really high at $95.05 in Dubai. This is the price people pay.. The price of Paper Silver on COMEX is a lot lower. This is a problem for the banks. They are in trouble because they have to pay the price of Physical Silver. If they have to pay this price it would cause them a lot of trouble and they could go bankrupt right away. The banks are facing an issue with their money because of the difference between the price of Physical Silver and the price of Paper Silver, on COMEX.

The Exchange is taking action to help the House. They are making it very costly for people to keep contracts for a long time. This is basically a way to rescue the people who have shorts, in the House. The Exchange is doing this to support the House.

This is the same plan that people used against the Hunt Brothers back, in 1980. The Hunt Brothers were targeted with this plan a long time ago in 1980 and now it is happening again with the same playbook being used against the Hunt Brothers.

The Hunt Brothers tried to control the market for silver. At that time the COMEX made a change, with something called Silver Rule 7. They changed the rules in the middle of everything. The COMEX said people could only sell their silver they could not buy any more. The COMEX also made people pay a lot money to buy and sell silver the fees went very high. The Hunt Brothers and silver are still remembered for this event. The COMEX and the Hunt Brothers and silver are all part of this story.

The price was broken at that time. Now the price is what they are trying to break.

This is a bad sign and it is causing a lot of trouble at the Clearinghouse level. The Clearinghouse is having a tough time and this is a signal that something is very wrong, at the Clearinghouse.

If the market is really healthy then the market does not need to be suffocated. The people, in charge of the market would not have to take drastic measures to control the market if the market was actually healthy. The market needs to be able to breathe and grow on its own without anyone stifling it.

If you are trading paper you are basically playing a game where the other side can make up rules whenever they want so it is not a fair game. The people in charge can do what they want. That is not good, for you. When the house starts to lose they can just change the rules to win again. This is what happens when you are trading paper.

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