CME Futures Resume Right As Banks Tap $24.4 Billion of Fed Liquidity, Silver Up 96% YTD, Gold & Silver's Rise Warn Of Next Global Margin Call, Silver's Market Cap Remains Tiny, Shanghai Silver Shorts Pay Massive Premium To Close Out Positions, and Rumors of 400 Million Ounce Physical Silver Delivery

This is wild.

• CME “cooling issue” freezes futures (1:40AM ET on the 28th) right as silver is blowing out to new highs.

• At the exact same time CME futures trading resumes roughly 7 hours later, banks quietly tap $24.4B from the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility on a random half-day Friday with no month-end, no quarter-end, no obvious calendar stress.

Then silver proceeds to shatter it’s recent new all time high with and closed up 6.55% on the highs for the day. (a bullish sign for next week)

Read that together and it looks less like a coincidence and more like a system flashing red:

• Futures market: “We can’t handle this move, hit pause.”

• Funding market: “We need cash now, pledge the Treasuries.”

Remember, silver is the most shorted commodity.

In light of that, it’s not far-fetched to speculate that the same institutions that need the cash are th

While elite money managers chased stocks and bonds this year, “silver stackers” bet on the most electrically conductive metal on the planet that just happens to be in it’s 5th consecutive year of a structural deficit... and crushed them with a jaw-dropping 95%+ gain in 2025.

The Epic Backstory: From Mockery to Moonshot

Remember 2021?

GameStop mania spilled into silver, with "wackos" screaming about manipulated markets, endless short positions by banks, and an inevitable squeeze.

Silver spiked to $30/oz, then crashed—earning eye-rolls from pros who called it tinfoil-hat nonsense.

Fast-forward to 2025: Silver started January at ~$28.85/oz and rocketed to $56.71/oz by November 29.

That's a 96% surge, outpacing gold's 58%, Bitcoin's volatility, and the S&P 500's ~20-25% grind.

The “silver stackers” weren't wrong—they were early.

The Yen Carry Trade: Fueling Global Leverage and Its Perilous Unwind

The yen carry trade is the quiet skeleton key of global markets.

Borrow yen at ultra-low rates.

Spray that cheap leverage across the world — U.S. stocks, Treasuries, EM, crypto, you name it.

It’s the invisible leverage pump that’s been inflating every major asset class for years.

But when the yen strengthens — whether because the BOJ tightens or investors rush into safe-havens — that beautiful machine reverses.

Fast.

Traders are forced to unwind positions, dump assets, repay yen. Selling begets more selling. Liquidity evaporates.

We already saw a preview in late July 2024: a violent yen spike triggered forced deleveraging that sent the VIX skyrocketing in a few sessions and cracked markets worldwide.

That wasn’t the main event. That was a foreshock.

Japan sits at the heart of a hyper-leveraged, hyper-interconnected global economy.

When the next yen surge hits, the unwind will be bigger, faster, and uglier — and the central-bank response will be another tidal wave of liquidity.

And that flood will launch gold and silver into their next vertical ascent.

The entire silver mining industry is a rounding error next to Nvidia, crypto, or oil & gas.

If $50 becomes the new floor and even a sliver of the trillions parked in those giants decides it wants real metal exposure, there simply isn’t enough silver or silver equities to absorb it quietly.

Tiny market + rising structural demand + re-rated price floor = every new dollar in has to bid the price way higher just to fit through the door.

Big shorts in Shanghai just paid 3–4% above Friday’s close to get out.

You don’t torch money like that unless you’re terrified of what’s next.

That’s not “taking profits” – that’s smart money panic-covering into strength, front-running a move they expect to be violent and higher.

If whales are even rumored to be standing for 400 million oz of COMEX silver, the message is brutal:

Big money no longer trusts paper claims — they want metal in hand.

Whether the exact number is true or not, the fact that seasoned silver people see it as plausible tells you where we are in the cycle:

• vaults visibly draining,

• futures halted on a “glitch,”

• and now talk of a gargantuan delivery ask.

That’s what the early stages of a bank run on silver look like.

You don’t need the rumor to be perfect to see the direction of travel.

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Luke Lovett
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