Deleveraging in Bitcoin (Crypto) Will NOT Save Christmas!

[errolanderson]

The selloff in metals is not convened to silver.

This is a platinum chart. Platinum collapsed 22% over just a 36 hour period this week. Markets don’t recover well from selloffs this quick ‘n deep.

My opinion . . . silver and industrial metals in-general have peaked heading into the 1st quarter of 2026. We’ll all know soon . . . .

[TASFarms]

Around 50 000 short contracts out. I can see why they raised the margin. Find out Friday who lost their shirt.

[errolanderson]

Exchanges have to increase their margin requirements whenever price volatility becomes excessive. This happens to any commodity in a blow-off topping phase, like silver. It has happened many times in the grain futures.

This is no dirty trick to force liquidation.

LEVERAGE IS A THRILLER ON-THE-WAY UP. LEVERAGE IS A KILLER ON-THE-WAY DOWN . . . .

Stick to buying call or put option premiums when market volatility is excessive for safety. Do not underwrite during high volatility as this exposes you to margin calls.

Leveraged crypto investors are now getting blown-out, can’t maintain positions due to volatility.

[tubs]

It is all about greed,the people responsible for this fiasco will still get their chrismas bonuses. we should just let them go bankrupt no bailouts it is going to hurt but we can not let this going on without reprocussoins . The grain business is corrupt also.

[sumdumguy]

A generation back, in this area the “big” farmers got wiped out in the grain futures market, then again the Hunt Brothers showed us how brutal greed can be. Lesson learned!

[errolanderson]

Agrivillers of-note . . . . Warren Buffet is retiring today Dec 31st, the founder / builder of Berkshire Hathaway. He is just 95 years old.

The team of Buffet and Charlie Munger (working until he recently passed at 100) was truly an amazing partnership of business investment. As a bystander, I will miss their wit, their quotes, their amazing wisdom.

[shtferbrains]

Silver, Gold, and metals in general made huge gains this year.
There have been some breaks, but in the last yr its been almost a no brainer?
Leveraged ETF's have been taking a big bite out of what is referred to managed money. or you typical mutual fund that most have as RSP's.

Managed money is looking like an oxymoron under the circumstances?
Managers seem to think single digit annual gains are the only safe choice?

But we are all speculators in the commodity market aren't we?
Been doing it since I harvested my first crop or bought my inputs in the off season.
Have some experience in taking profits or absorbing losses?

Have seen it described this way:

"Investors should never feel pressure to get the outlook exactly right. Investing isn’t a game of precision. Rather, the goal should be to tilt portfolios toward the highest probabilities, pick your spots to take risk, all while balancing risks and opportunities."

I'm beginning to think having a "Professional Investment Advisor" is great for tax and estate planning but is kind of like counting on the CWB for selling your wheat when it comes to getting returns on investments?

Anybody else ?

Edit: I'm not suggesting going all in on leveraged ETF's.
But zero is not the right situation either?

DYOD

[crusher]

My investment Advisor has helped increase my returns substantially because I was ultraconservative before. The tax planning has been a welcome bonus, plus a second opinion to the accountant is helpful. If one has the discipline and smarts to take care of his own portfolio that's alright too. It's been helpful when they showed a 30 year projection indicating I should be alright in any scenario. One can't go to far wrong in an appropriately balanced (equity/bonds),low fee ETF, in Canada, US and elsewhere.

[agstar77]

So is this tied to the one big beautiful bill and resulting 2 Trillion increase in the U.S. deficit?

[errolanderson]

BITCOIN . . . Considering all the promoter, banker and political grandstanding recently, crypto currencies continue to struggle. Bitcoin appears to be respecting $95,000 resistance.

Are cryptos going to-the-moon as we are all told or is this a total head fake?