In late December before I started this thread when silver broke out from the 60s, I thought the bankers had common sense and were turning their shorts into long positions. The banks could go to more well defended positions at 100-200 or 150-300. With the goal to end demand not by refusing to sell to Asia as the exchanges are doing, the goal to reduce demand perhaps the normal way of higher prices. Also get sellers at higher prices to increase supply. I am not saying prices would stay there. I am saying banks would develop new short positions in the hundreds of dollars.

The battle in the 70s has way more volitility and can snap the market one way or another.

If you need to sell, then sell. There is much upside potential for those that don't, so long as china does not sell us out again, as china has done typically.

Shortages seem here to stay. Though the banksters are seeking to manage this with destroying demand in Asia while promoting surpluses at American refineries to send to the exchanges. There are shortage issues at the dealers and the comex. The comex does not want price discovery, the comex wants demand destruction. That is the difficulty the comex is in

Though there are financial system collapse scenarios that could usher in bretton woods 2.0 of bitcoin.

Moderate to high inventory levels of silver is a sell signal. As unlike in 2011, in 2025/6 there are no major buyers trying to crash the comex and make gold and silver money again. This is 100% from supply shortages.

That bull market of gold leading silver did fizzle. There was no shortages of gold, it was brics buying for trade war, the year of 2025 was the year of trade war chaos and the move to 4500 gold was the buying from trade war chaos. That ended in October and fizzled. Then started the silver shortage and silver is leading the precious metals, not based on fake government data nor nations selling out to trumpstein, this is from multiyear shortages that are causing real trouble for the exchanges. This is the reason for the changes to margin rules, denying silver to Asia.

The zombie gold market worked for the bankers in 2025. The silver shortages are causing far more trouble. Not saying where precious metals go. Shortages have been here for years and appear to be here for a while more.