REDDIT Stock Market Warriors: Forum Sparks Physical Silver Shortage on Major Dealers’ Websites
[This is funny. Will to Power, Will to Power. Excellent stuff. This is going to be fun to watch. I like it … the rich are finding the common people (probably mostly Whites), swarming all over the markets. This is awesome! The super rich have been manipulating the Stock markets for CENTURIES … going at least as far back as the Battle of Waterloo, when the Rothschilds manipulated the market by lying and saying Napoleon won … then they made an enormous killing. This is normal for the super rich …. but what happens when WHITE MASSES start hitting back? This could be awesome. So will the Govt say that when the SUPER RICH scum do it … that it's GOOD, but when the common citizens do it that it's WRONG? What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Except if you're Jewish. Then you're protected at all times. Jan]
Several major dealers of silver, gold, and other precious metals say they’re encountering shortages of silver, in particular, after Reddit users in the popular forum WallStreetBets called for users to create a run on the precious metal.
Bullion dealers wrote on their respective websites about shortages of physical coins.
APMEX wrote that “due to unprecedented demand on physical silver products, we are unable to accept any additional orders until markets open on [Jan. 31] evening.”
JM Bullion, another major bullion dealer, wrote that due to an increase in demand, there will be shipping delays of five to 10 days “from cleared payment.”
Next was SDBullion, which also said on Jan. 31 that it couldn’t fulfill any additional orders until the market opened.
“In the 24 hours proceeding Friday market close, SD Bullion sold nearly 10x the number of silver ounces that we normally would sell in an entire weekend leading to Sunday market open,” SDBullion CEO Tyler Wall wrote on its website on the morning of Jan. 31.
“Due to extremely high weekend volume, we cannot accept any more new orders until global markets open on Sunday night.” MoneyMetals similarly warned.
JM Bullion, another major bullion dealer, wrote on its website that due to an increase in demand, there will be shipping delays of five to 10 days “from cleared payment.” (Screenshot/JM Bullion)
A number of popular 1-ounce silver rounds were out of stock on the four aforementioned websites and others.
“In a normal market, we normally can find at least one supplier/source willing to sell some ounces over the weekend if we exceed our long position (the number of ounces we predict we will sell over the weekend). However, everyone we talk to is afraid of a gap up at Sunday night market open,” he said. “This is about ready to get really interesting, as there was very little inventory left from suppliers/mints going into Friday close. Our direct [silver] supplier informed us after the close on Friday that the ‘US Mint will be on allocation for the remainder of Type 1’ (Current Silver Eagle Design). Our sales for the month of January exceeded any one-month last year.”
The silver run was coordinated via users on WallStreetBets, 4chan’s /biz/ board, Twitter, and other websites over the weekend.
On WallStreetBets, one user wrote in a highly upvoted post they want to push up the price for an ounce of silver from around $25 to $1,000 in what they described as the “biggest short squeeze in the world.” The post was later deleted by moderators of the group.