Silver and Margin Requirements Redux
by Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
Silver Seek
Wary silver investors may be wise to watch out for a pre-election margin hike. Especially if silver’s price gets too frothy or starts dragging the price of gold up along with it, since such events could signal the reemergence of unpopular inflationary pressures.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange or CME is a self-regulated, for profit organization that sets its own margin requirements. The CME’s maintenance margins for silver futures contracts are still at relatively high levels compared with other markets, despite the precious metal’s recent consolidative trading patterns seen prior to the Fed’s announcement of its latest QEIII package.
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2012-10-09 10:22:50
Source: http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/2012/10/silver-and-margin-requirements-redux/
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