(1 of 6) Quick #silversqueeze thread on MONUMENTAL SHIFTS quietly unfolding now

The 4 largest paper #silver traders by net position (bullion banks) saw their shorts CRATER from 31.8% of open interest, down to 22.3%

This is the largest weekly drop EVER (by far)

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(2 of 6) For context, the green area is the size of the move which occurred this past week. Shifts of this scale have happened a few times before, but they have ALWAYS taken 6-12+ weeks to unfold

This vaporization of bullion bank shorts happened in 5 trading days

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(3 of 6) Both total OI & # of traders ticked UP last week, reversing a downtrend in place since peak #silversqueeze levels just before the mid-June massacre

Therefore this was not some mass exodus from #silver, rather a tectonic shift of concentrated positions

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(4 of 6) If OI ticking up, and one (or more) of the top bullion banks is executing a mad dash to eliminate their #silver shorts, who was writing new contracts and soaking up the short positions?

For the most part, it was the hedgies. Chasing momentum? Sour bears?

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(5 of 6) So which whale(s) is(are) dumping/closing their #silver shorts?

- A third of the top 4
- Roughly a quarter of the top 8

Remind you of any distribution curves from the metals trading/manipulator leader boards?

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(6 of 6) This LARGEST 1-wk elimination of concentrated #silver shorts in history does not look like a broader, orderly move by bullion banks.

This looks much more like one bank deciding to rush & be first to move, à la "Close all the shorts. Today" style.

#silversqueeze

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31 May
(1) #silversqueeze is draining the physical silver market, & past several months have seen a relentless upward trend reflected in paper #silver prices, as the system begins deleveraging. Here is a thread on the monthly cycles observed since this began & what it may mean for June.
(2) We begin w/the hourly chart, starting from end of MAR, after banks cleaned up all the crazy WSB YOLO bets and took their money. The systemic silver shortages from #silversqueeze had now started seeping into every corner of the physical market, the paper deleveraging had begun
(3) We correct for the overall #silversqueeze effect by skewing the chart, negating the upward pressure from the system deleveraging, as physical metal enters private hands and 50+ paper copies of each ounce vaporizes for each ounce exiting the system.
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(1) Think of the @PerthMint unallocated #silversqueeze crisis like this:

Perth Mint leases (borrows) the titles of classic cars stored in other people's private, secured garages. The mint has no access to the cars themselves, only borrowing the titles.
(2) Perth Mint then gets unsecured loans from plebeians for those leased titles, telling clients they are investing in a pool of classic cars, & those loans are "backed" by classic cars stored at the mint's garages. Clients can even be repaid by taking delivery on a classic car.
(3) As part of their normal operating business, Perth Mint even has a few classic cars in THEIR garage, ones they have purchased outright. This is the "showroom" to convince everyone how all that unallocated is backed by real classic cars and that delivery is indeed possible.
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