🚨 THE SYSTEM IS BREAKING IN REAL TIME

I’ve been trading futures for 20 years I’ve seen volatility, crashes, short squeezes—everything.

But what the CME just did?

I have never seen anything like this.

A second massive margin hike in the same week on major commodities?

That’s not “risk management.”

That’s a panic button.

Read Notice #25-399 yourself.

Effective tomorrow, January 2nd:

– Silver: Maintenance Margin from $25,000 → $32,500 (+30%)

– Platinum: +25%

– Palladium: +22%

When the Exchange jacks up margins this aggressively, it means one thing:

They’re forcing liquidation.

Funds and retail traders run on leverage.

If you suddenly demand an extra $7,500 per contract overnight, people are forced to dump their positions just to stay alive.

This isn’t about “risk control.”

This is about killing upward momentum and manufacturing a sell-off.

Meanwhile, physical silver is trading around $95+ in some markets—far above the paper price—putting enormous pressure on the big players holding short exposure. Without intervention, they’d get blown out.

So the Exchange steps in to protect the “House.”

Make it insanely expensive to stay long.

Give the naked shorts breathing room.

Same old trick.

This is exactly the playbook they used against the Hunt Brothers in 1980.

Rule changes mid-game.

“Liquidation Only.”

Margins through the roof.

It broke the market then.

They’re trying to break it now.

Moves like this don’t happen in a healthy system.

This is a sign of serious stress at the clearinghouse level.

If you’re still trading paper, remember:

You’re fighting a rigged casino that rewrites the rules the moment the house starts losing.

And just like I’ve done for the past decade—calling every major top and bottom—

when I make my next move, I’ll post it here.

If you’re not following yet, don’t say I didn’t warn you.