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Gold and Silver: a $7 trillion wipeout of the market
Gold and Silver $7 trillion wipeout
Silver’s action this past week was a masterclass in how quickly a “can’t lose” story can snap. Thursday pushed to fresh record highs near $122, and everything looked lined up for more: supply tightness, industrial demand, inflation-hedge chatter, and retail FOMO all feeding the same trade.
The move felt clean, inevitable, even easy. Then Friday hit, and silver didn’t just pull back… it collapsed into the mid-$80s, a ~25%+ one-day wipeout that erased gains faster than most traders could even reprice risk.
The dollar firmed up and the market started rethinking the Fed path, sure, and that’s never great for metals. But if we’re being real, the headline wasn’t the driver, the positioning was. When a market goes vertical, it gets packed with late buyers, the real bid gets thinner than people realize, stops pile up just beneath the breakout, and once price slips, those stops turn into gasoline.
Liquidity that looked “fine” on the way up suddenly vanishes on the way down because the same thin order book that helped it rip higher becomes the reason it falls so fast.
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Last Monday we covered the move on Silver and the Risk on the asset. We were analyzing Silver Volatility (VXSLV) and saw an outlier. The Vol of Silver was at all time high and looking back in the chart this only happened in two occasions over the past 6 years: in 2021 and during Covid.
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Now the next sessions matter: does silver stabilize and base in the $80–$90 area (reset within an uptrend), or do bounces get sold as the unwind continues, especially if the dollar stays bid and yields refuse to ease?
Either way, the takeaway is simple: don’t confuse momentum with structure, when structure breaks, volatility becomes the strategy. And Friday wasn’t a pullback… it was the market reminding everyone who’s in charge.
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