What happened today wasn’t just a sell-off in gold and silver.
It was a warning.
Gold dropped nearly 20%.
Silver collapsed close to 30%.
All in a single session.
Moves like this don’t happen in stable markets — especially not in assets meant to represent safety.
Over time, gold and silver stopped being simple stores of value. They became heavily leveraged trades.
Banks, hedge funds, commodity desks, and even sovereign players built positions on one core belief:
“These markets don’t crash.”
That belief invited leverage — massive, persistent, and underestimated.
Today, it broke.
Margin calls hit simultaneously.
Forced liquidations followed.
Liquidity vanished.
The price action looked like a crypto liquidation cascade — except these assets sit at the heart of global collateral and financial confidence.
This wasn’t panic selling.
It was mechanical.
A system-wide deleveraging.
Trillions were erased on paper today, but the real consequences are still ahead:
stressed balance sheets
collateral shortages
tighter credit conditions
forced selling across asset classes
This is how contagion spreads.
First precious metals.
Then equities.
Then property.
Today won’t be remembered as the crash.
It will be remembered as the moment the foundation cracked.
And once confidence fails at the core,
everything built on it starts to shake.
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