Recent gold and silver volatility was the flushing of margined speculators, Maguire tells LFTV
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-11-01 16:05 Section: Daily Dispatches3:06p CT Saturday, November 1, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Recent volatility in gold and silver prices, London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" this week, has been mainly a matter of bullion banks flushing speculative naked longs -- highly margined longs -- out of their futures markets positions and then flushing them out again when they turned naked short to try to recover what they had lost while naked long.
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Dimitri Speck: Silver high -- Where was it in 1980, how did it develop in 2011, and is a bear market looming?
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-11-01 11:16 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Dimitri Speck
SilverSeek.com
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Most recently, in October 2025, the silver price rose above $50 per troy ounce. Silver had already reached this level in 1980 and then again in 2011. On both occasions, this was followed by a prolonged decline in prices. Some investors are therefore wondering whether such a decline is looming again. To answer this question, let us first take a closer look at the situation at that time.
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Dave Russell: The people's gold standard
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-10-31 15:04 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Dave Russell
GoldCore, Dublin
Friday, October 31, 2025
Across Russia household wealth is undergoing a transformation.
Citizens who once saved in euros and dollars are now accumulating small bars, coins, and jewelry. What began as a reaction to sanctions and currency restrictions has evolved into a structural change in how Russians perceive and preserve wealth.
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Alasdair Macleod: Game on for gold and silver
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-10-31 14:51 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Friday, October 31, 2025
Despite recent weakness in gold and silver, the early indications are that the current consolidation phase is unlikely to last long before prices resume their uptrend.
It may be too early to conclude that after the shakeout of the last two weeks we have seen the bottom in gold and silver prices. But current physical liquidity constraints and the reasons for buying gold and silver have not gone away, suggesting that prices are being set up for another run higher.
You don't have to know what it means to miss New Orleans, so join GATA there
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-10-31 14:40 Section: Daily Dispatches1:40p CT Friday, October 31, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
In 1947 Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong asked the musical question: Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?:
BIS gold swaps rose 24 tonnes in September but trend remains sharply down
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-10-31 13:51 Section: Daily Dispatches1p CT Friday, October 31, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements, a major gold broker for central banks, increased 24 tonnes in September, from 30 tonnes to 54, GATA's consultant on the bank, Robert Lambourne, reports.
Lambourne calculated the BIS' swaps volume from the bank's September statement of account, which was published today:
