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@honzacern1
Apr 11 • 14 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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🚨 BREAKING: The Gulf’s largest aluminum producer just declared force majeure.

Not a headline.
A signal.

When industrial giants stop delivering, something deeper is breaking.
2/
Emirates Global Aluminium halted operations after drone & missile strikes.

Now they’re invoking force majeure =
“We cannot deliver physical metal.”

Let that sink in.
3/
 This isn’t about aluminum.

It’s about the system:

• Energy disruption (Hormuz)
• Logistics stress
• Industrial shutdowns

Supply chains are no longer stable. They’re fragile.
4/
Aluminum = 4% of global supply (just EGA)
Middle East = ~9% global production

Remove a chunk → price spikes → panic buying → hoarding

We’ve seen this movie before.
5/
 Here’s where it gets interesting…
#Silver sits at the intersection of:

• Industrial demand (solar, electronics, military)
• Monetary demand (store of value)

It’s not just a metal. It’s leverage.
6/
When supply chains break:
Demand doesn’t disappear.
It compresses.

And compression = violent repricing.
7/
Force majeure is the key.
It means contracts don’t matter anymore.

Reality overrides paper.

Sound familiar?
8/
Because this is exactly what everyone is watching in silver:

• Paper promises vs physical availability
• Futures vs real delivery
• Price vs reality

Two different worlds.
9/
Energy shock → industrial disruption → metal shortages

This is a chain reaction.

And silver is right in the middle of it.
10/
Add this to the mix:

• Tight physical supply
• Rising industrial demand
• Monetary uncertainty

That’s not a normal market setup.
That’s pressure building.
11/
And here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Markets don’t break gradually.

They hold.
They stretch.
Then they snap.
12/
Aluminum just showed you the first crack.
Silver might be where the fracture spreads.

This isn’t a prediction.

It’s a pattern.
14/
Watch physical flows.
Watch delivery stress.
Watch who’s actually holding metal.

Everything else is noise.

When the system prioritizes survival over contracts…

That’s when price discovery becomes real.

#Silver #Commodities #SupplyShock #StayInPhysical #Macro
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Honza Černý Profile picture
Apr 9
1/
Rollover has started.
But here’s the question nobody is asking:

👉 How much of it can they actually roll… before something breaks? Image
2/
May silver open interest just dropped by -4,394
July jumped +4,618

Looks normal, right?
It’s not.
3/
They’re not rolling into June.
They’re skipping it.

➡️ Straight into July.
That’s not routine. That’s positioning.
Read 11 tweets
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Mar 30
1/
FED:
“Inflation expectations are not affected.” 😌

Markets:

👉 99.5% NO CHANGE
👉 Cuts? Not really
👉 Hikes? Almost zero

Yeah… totally “under control.” 👍
2/
Oil rising
Geopolitics heating up
Supply chains under pressure

FED:
“Nothing to see here.” 👀
3/
Let’s translate:

Inflation “not affected” =
👉 People haven’t panicked yet

That’s it.
Read 12 tweets
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Mar 24
1/
 COMEX silver in one snapshot:
Registered: 79.2M oz

March deliveries MTD: 44.17M oz
May open interest: 369.99M oz

And we are still supposed to pretend this is a relaxed physical market?
2/
 Let that sink in.
March month-to-date deliveries already equal 55.8% of today’s registered silver stock.

One active delivery month has already chewed through more than half of what is currently sitting in registered.
3/
 Now look at May.
May open interest stands at roughly 370M oz.
Registered silver sits at roughly 79M oz.

That is about 4.67 paper ounces for every 1 ounce of registered metal.
Not exactly a picture of abundance.
Read 11 tweets
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Mar 19
Silver Market Snapshot Report

Date: March 18, 2026
Focus: COMEX silver vaults, delivery activity, and what it means for physical stackers

Silver was hit hard on screen, with price falling to around $70.56, down roughly 6.37% intraday on the chart shown. But underneath that paper weakness, the physical side tells a more important story:

COMEX registered silver was unchanged

Eligible silver fell by 2,817,057.88 oz

Total COMEX silver stocks fell by 2,817,057.88 oz

The biggest visible drawdowns came from JP Morgan and StoneX

March silver deliveries remain substantial relative to current registered stocks

Bottom line:

This does not look like abundance.
It looks like paper pressure on price while physical metal continues leaving the system.Image
1) COMEX silver vault data
Daily vault change

From the CME metal depository statistics shown:

Total Registered: 78,903,367.869 oz

Total Eligible: 256,172,267.235 oz

Combined Total: 335,075,635.104 oz

Daily change:

Registered: no change

Eligible: -2,817,057.88 oz

Combined total: -2,817,057.88 oz

That is the key signal of the day.

Why that matters

Registered metal is the category most directly associated with metal available to meet futures delivery obligations. Eligible metal is still in the system, but it is not automatically for sale or deliverable unless its owner chooses to convert it.

So when:

registered stays flat

while eligible keeps leaving

…it suggests that silver is not rushing into the “ready-to-deliver” pool. In other words, the exchange is not becoming more comfortable from a physical standpoint.
2) Where the silver left from

The major visible withdrawals in the report came from:

JP Morgan Chase Bank NA

Eligible withdrawal: 1,611,910.200 oz

No registered increase to offset that outflow

StoneX Precious Metals LLC

Eligible withdrawal: 1,185,217.240 oz

Again, no registered increase to offset it

HSBC

Smaller eligible withdrawal:
19,930.440 oz

Interpretation

This is important because the draw was concentrated in large, known depositories rather than being just random tiny movements. That makes the outflow more meaningful.
Read 11 tweets
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Mar 14
🚨 BREAKING:
Iran is reportedly considering reopening the Strait of Hormuz — but with one condition.

Oil must be traded in Chinese yuan.
Not dollars.
Not euros.

Yuan.
If true, this is not just about war.
This is about the petrodollar system.
#Oil #Iran #Macro
1.

The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 20% of global oil supply.

For 50+ years, global oil trade has been priced in US dollars.

That system — the petrodollar — forces countries to hold USD reserves to buy energy.

It is one of the pillars of American financial power.
2. Now imagine this:
A major oil route reopens, but only for cargo traded in yuan.

That would mean:
• less demand for dollars
• more demand for Chinese currency
• a direct challenge to the global dollar system

This is geopolitics through energy markets.
Read 9 tweets
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Mar 4
1/
 QatarEnergy declaring force majeure is not just an LNG story.

Qatar supplies ~20% of global LNG.

If shipments stop, this becomes a global industrial shock, not just an Asian energy problem.
2/
 Asia will scramble for replacement gas.
That means bidding against Europe and other LNG buyers.

Result:

➡️ LNG prices spike
➡️ gas flows reshuffle globally
➡️ Europe could get squeezed again.
3/
 Natural gas isn't just fuel.
It is a core industrial feedstock used to produce:

• fertilizers
• ammonia
• plastics
• chemicals
• pharmaceuticals

Higher gas prices ripple through the entire manufacturing chain.
Read 10 tweets

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