You are here
Ted Butler: The ultimate confirmation
10:02p ET Monday, June 22, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Using U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data, silver market analyst Ted Butler argues today that the four big shorts in the U.S. silver futures market have never taken a loss -- that is, have never had to close a short position at a price higher than the one at which it was established. This, Butler argues, is "The Ultimate Confirmation" of the silver market's manipulation, "The Ultimate Confirmation" being the title of his analysis.
But, Butler adds, now that the biggest short, JPMorganChase, appears to have amassed a huge long position in silver, eventually the bullion bank will let the price rise and realize as much as $3.5 billion in profit.
... Dispatch continues below ...
Silver mining stock report comes with 1-ounce silver round
Future Money Trends is offering a special 18-page silver mining stock report about how to profit with the monetary and industrial metal, and it comes with a free 1-ounce silver round. Proceeds from the report's sales are shared with the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee to support its efforts to expose manipulation in the monetary metals markets. To learn about this report, please visit:
Maybe -- but what if, as JPMorganChase officials asserted a few years ago, the bullion bank's position in the silver futures market is not its own but that of clients, or that of one client particularly, the U.S. government? In that case even a $3.5 billion profit on a soaring price of silver, a monetary metal, would be puny compared to what the silver price was reflecting -- the collapse of the U.S. dollar, whose support has been the U.S. government's main objective during its decades of surreptitious intervention in the futures and currency markets.
Silver and gold are far more likely to break out of their futures-market shackles on account of something else Butler notes in his analysis.
Butler writes: "It is truly astounding how the acceptance that silver and gold prices are manipulated by Comex trading has grown from the levels of five or 10 years ago. Go back 20 or 30 years and you could count on one hand the number of observers who believed that silver or gold was manipulated in price. Despite the growing acceptance, not everyone believes that silver is manipulated in price yet, but it occurs to me that we are moving toward total acceptance as new facts are uncovered."
And when everybody realizes it, no one but governments and their brokers will trade the rigged futures markets in the monetary metals, all trading will be cash-for-delivery only, and at last fundamentals of supply and demand for real metal will prevail.
Butler's analysis is posted at GoldSeek's companion site, SilverSeek, here --
http://www.silverseek.com/commentary/ultimate-confirmation-14556
-- and at 24hGold here:
http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold-silver-the-ultimate-confirmatio...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
* * *
Join GATA here:
New Orleans Investment Conference
Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
Wednesday-Saturday, October 28-31, 2015
http://noic2015.eventbrite.com/?aff=gata
Support GATA by purchasing recordings of the proceedings of the 2014 New Orleans Investment Conference:
https://jeffersoncompanies.com/landing/2014-av-powell
Or by purchasing DVDs of GATA's London conference in August 2011 or GATA's Dawson City conference in August 2006:
http://www.goldrush21.com/order.html
Or by purchasing a colorful GATA T-shirt:
Or a colorful poster of GATA's full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal on January 31, 2009:
http://gata.org/node/wallstreetjournal
Help keep GATA going
GATA is a civil rights and educational organization based in the United States and tax-exempt under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Its e-mail dispatches are free, and you can subscribe at:
To contribute to GATA, please visit:
