WATCH THIS BREAK: Silver Liquidity Split — Prices No Longer Mean Safety
Most people watch silver’s spot price and assume it reflects real supply and demand.
But right now, the global silver system is splitting into two separate markets — one that trades on screens, and one where real metal access is tightening behind closed doors.
In this Hidden Economy breakdown, we explain why silver’s price is no longer a reliable signal of safety, and why the relationship between price and availability is breaking mechanically, not emotionally.
Over the last few months, COMEX has raised margin requirements multiple times, forcing leveraged traders out of paper silver positions. This creates a price drop that looks like weak sentiment — but it’s actually structural suppression caused by exchange-level collateral rules.
At the same time, liquidity in the LBMA physical market is tightening. Spreads are widening, delivery windows are stretching, and the gap between the quoted fixing price and the true cost of sourcing metal in size is growing.
This is the same type of divergence the world saw in March 2020, when futures and physical markets decoupled and price became a function of contract settlement instead of metal availability.
Now add a third force: sovereign and institutional accumulation outside the Western clearing system. Silver is moving east — into vault networks that do not participate in LBMA rehypothecation and collateral loops. Every ounce removed reduces the available float and increases settlement fragility.
This is the liquidity split:
COMEX price reflects paper settlement.
LBMA pricing reflects clearing confidence.
Physical premiums reflect real-world access.
And when premiums explode, the spot price becomes fiction.
If this trend continues, silver will no longer trade as a unified commodity. It will trade as a fractured system — one where the price on screen means nothing compared to the cost of actual delivery.
Watch till the end to understand what happens when the pricing mechanism breaks, premiums detach from spot, and confidence in the silver settlement structure begins to crack.
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