The Hunt brothers in the late 79-80, made a huge play against silver, both physical and futures. As the price rose from $10 to $50, the COMEX changed the rules, limited futures buying and ordered a silver sell only decree. CFTC promptly backed the decree. Of course the price of silver fell off a cliff. The Hunts, who did nothing illegal, accused members of holding short positions on silver, which later was proven true. Their brokerage, Bache (now Prudential Bache) was part of an emergency bail out plan approved by Paul Volker (Fed chair at the time) as he "feared a financial disaster". COMEX, CFTC, Fed Chair, multi-billion $ bailout, Hunt brothers forced in bankruptcy... same shit, different decade.
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I think that is a huge weakness with a place like WSBs, so many scumbags will see them as a group to pump stocks to. It's inevitable now they have so much attention and some of the pumpers will be highly organized with many people that have many fake accounts.
They will need to be buying futures to really go after silver but they are not going to be able to get physical delivery when using a retail broker and they will need to know about how to roll a futures contract at month end also.
Mining is a waste to time to move the price of silver, ETFs that hold the physical asset or the future can work but there will be a lag, plus can you really see WSBs understanding contango and backwardation?