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May 18 11 tweets 2 min read Read on X
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Something very interesting is happening in silver right now… and most people still don’t see it. 🥈
India just restricted silver imports.

Not tariffs.
Not taxes.

Restrictions.
That changes the game.

Special thanks to @BankerWeimar for the valuable information and research on this developing situation. 🫡🥈Image
2/

A tariff only makes silver more expensive.
A restriction means imports now require permission.

Read that again carefully.

India is no longer simply pricing silver…

it is starting to CONTROL the physical flow of silver into the country.
3/

Now here’s the part stackers should pay attention to:
Silver in India was recently trading at a DISCOUNT of nearly $6/oz to global prices.

After the restrictions?

That discount rapidly narrowed…

and traders now expect a PREMIUM of $1.5–$2/oz.
4/

Think about what that means.
Paper price weakened…

yet physical silver inside India became MORE expensive.

That is an extremely important signal.

Because it suggests:

physical demand is beginning to overpower paper sentiment.
5/

This is exactly what many stackers have talked about for years:
There is no true “global silver price.”

There is:

paper silver price
and

physical silver availability.
Most of the time they move together.
Sometimes they don’t.
6/

And India is not some tiny market.
It is one of the world’s largest physical silver importers.

If regional premiums begin appearing there…

the market is telling you something about real-world supply stress.
7/

Another fascinating detail:
Industry participants themselves admitted in the article that:

“global fundamentals for the metal remain bullish.”

Not stackers

Not silver Twitter

Industry participants
8/

This is where things get interesting historically.
When governments begin restricting the FLOW of a commodity instead of merely taxing it…

they are quietly treating it as strategically important.

Silver may not officially be monetary anymore…

but the system is starting to behave differently around it.
9/

And remember:
This is happening BEFORE a true retail mania.

Most people still:

ignore silver,

trust paper assets,
or believe spot price = physical reality.
Yet the cracks are already appearing.
10/

The most bullish part?Physical silver may be starting to establish its own regional price discovery independent from COMEX paper pricing.

If that trend spreads…stackers already know what comes next.

😏🥈#SilverStackers #SilverSqueeze #PreciousMetals #DrainTheVaults #SilverApes
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More from @honzacern1

May 3
China’s Acid Move Could Trigger the Next Silver Squeez

1/

Everyone is watching silver charts.
Almost nobody is watching sulfuric acid.
That may be a mistake.

China’s reported move to restrict sulfuric acid exports from May 2026 could quietly become one of the most important silver supply stories of the year.

Not because it targets silver.
Because it targets the metals that produce it.Image
2/

Sulfuric acid is not some minor chemical input.
It is critical for copper leaching and SX-EW production — the process used to extract copper from oxide and lower-grade ores.

According to Reuters, around one-fifth of global primary refined copper output comes from SX-EW operations using sulfuric acid.
3/

Chile is the pressure point.

The world’s top copper producer is already facing an acid supply crunch. Reuters reported that Chinese sulfuric acid shipments to Chile fell to zero in March 2026.

Zero.

Not “lower.”
Not “delayed.”
Zero.
Read 16 tweets
May 2
In a System Built on Debt, I Choose Metal.

1/

I don’t stack silver because it’s trendy.
I stack because I’ve been paying attention.

This isn’t a trade.
It’s a position against a system.Image
2/

Fiat currencies don’t fail overnight.
They erode… slowly, quietly… predictably.

More money in the system
→ less value per unit.

That’s not conspiracy.
That’s math.
3/

The system runs on debt.
Governments. Corporations. Households.

Growth isn’t optional anymore —it’s required just to keep everything from cracking.
Read 14 tweets
Apr 16
🚨 While everyone watches headlines… the real game is happening quietly.

Yesterday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Mexico’s Finance Minister.

Sounds boring?

It’s not.

home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
🧵 Here’s what stackers should see (and others will miss):

1/ The U.S. is locking down critical minerals supply chains with Mexico.

That includes metals essential for:

- EVs
- solar
- electronics
- defense systems

And yes… silver sits right in the middle of it.
2/ This isn’t about trade.

It’s about control over physical resources.

When governments start coordinating supply chains, it usually means one thing:

👉 Supply is tight.
👉 Demand is strategic.
Read 9 tweets
Apr 15
1/ Michael Oliver’s message is simple: headlines are not the trend. Tariffs, war, panic, “the world is ending” narratives — all of that can jerk markets around for a while.

But the real long-term move is building underneath.

That is what stackers should be watching.

2/ His core point:

the stock market may be going through a long, grinding topping process, similar to 2000 and 2007.

The final turn does not always arrive with one giant media headline.

Very often the headline comes later, when the damage is already underway.
3/ Now the important part:

while equities may be rolling toward trouble, gold and especially silver appear to be in a very different regime.

Not just another cyclical trade.
A repricing into a new reality.
Read 13 tweets
Apr 11
1/

🚨 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.
Read 14 tweets
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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