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Check April 16 at 018 post to you was from Grok. Said NOT the futures Then the one I copied and pasted tonight. A contradiction.
Silver LOF fund halts: Several China-listed silver futures funds (e.g., Guotou Ruiyuan Silver LOF or similar products like UBS SDIC/Guotou Ruiyin) have faced temporary trading suspensions or pauses in 2026. These are often short (e.g., from market open until 10:30 a.m.) due to large premiums/discounts to net asset value, to protect investors. One such notice involved a halt starting around April 15–16 for a fund, but this is not the futures contracts themselves on SHF
I know that’s why I went back and copied and pasted what it said. Every time you ask it, it gives you a different answer.
Look back the other day where I copied pasted it said futures not halted just LOF or whatever the future stocks only. I won’t go into it all but this time denying hedge funds could trade in China it contradicted and said all futures halted. I don’t think they were defending shorts but was from overwhelming demand
Keep in mind too we have to re-supply our weapons because of Ukraine and Israel too. China needs silver for their industrial supplies.
Ipso – kind of evil looking. Some powerful forces are clearly interested in the symbolism on our currency.
Goldie – so, are you saying that futures trading on the Shanghai is halted? They’ve put out an am fix price. I couldn’t see your chat with Grok, it said it was private.
They should really do their homework before putting it on video but were all human. AI makes it easy. Grok is a crock all over the place.
It’s a collectors coin.
The 2026 “Emerging Liberty” dime features an “aggressive” eagle clutching only arrows to specifically commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, symbolizing the nation’s founding, revolutionary struggle, and “Liberty over Tyranny”.
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This one-year-only design represents a departure from traditional, peaceful imagery to highlight the tumultuous, wartime context of 1776.
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Key Reasons for the Design:
Commemorating the Revolution: The design represents the “active revolution” rather than just a peaceful nation, with the eagle and arrows symbolizing the struggle against tyranny.
Missing Olive Branch: Unlike many previous US coin designs that feature an eagle holding both arrows (war) and an olive branch (peace), this design omits the olive branch, which the designer, medallic artist Eric David Custer, noted was a deliberate choice to show colonists still “awaiting peace”.
“Liberty over Tyranny” Theme: The design is part of a “SemiQ” (Semiquincentennial) program focusing on the theme of “Liberty over Tyranny” to resonate with the 1776 founding era.
One-Year Commemorative: It is a special one-year interruption of the standard Roosevelt dime, intended to connect America with its history, featuring a determined Lady Liberty on the obverse and the eagle on the reverse.
Numismatic News +4
The design has received attention for its aggressive,war-focused imagery, but it was approved as part of a broader, Congressionally mandated program to honor the 250th anniversary.
So I went back and got a further contradiction. Wasn’t just LOF THIS ONE ADDED. . I copied this one. Demand is outpacing supply badly and I’m guessing they don’t want it known.
Yes, reports confirm that China (via the Shanghai Futures Exchange, or SHFE) announced an emergency halt/suspension of silver futures trading on April 15, 2026, effective from the morning of April 16, 2026.
Key Details
On April 15 (around 2:47 p.m. Shanghai time), SHFE issued an official emergency notice (filing SHFE 2026047) suspending all silver futures contracts. This was described as indefinite or emergency in nature, affecting new positions and all contract months, amid extreme physical delivery demand and low inventories (e.g., delivery requests nearing registered stocks of around 663 tonnes / ~21 million ounces).
The halt was not a routine circuit breaker (which can trigger at 17–20% daily limits) but tied to surging physical silver demand in China, inventory strains, and market abnormalities. Shanghai’s silver market handles a large share (often cited as ~40%) of global physical silver trading volume.
A related but separate event: China’s Guotou Ruiyuan Silver LOF (a silver futures-linked fund, code 161226) also halted trading on April 16 due to large premiums to net asset value.
Hedge Funds and International Trading
Hedge funds and other international participants could still buy and sell silver futures on other major exchanges like COMEX (part of CME Group in the US), which remained open and active. Silver futures continued trading there, with prices around $79–$80/oz in mid-April 2026.
SHFE silver is a physically delivered, RMB-denominated contract primarily for domestic Chinese participants and industrial demand.
COMEX/LBMA markets (dollar-based, often more “paper”/financial trading) allow global hedge funds, banks, and speculators to continue trading without interruption from the SHFE halt.
The suspension likely shifted some pressure/demand toward COMEX, contributing to volatility, potential upward price pressure, and higher physical premiums elsewhere.
Broader Context
This fits into ongoing 2026 dynamics: China reclassified silver as a strategic material with export licensing (effective Jan 1, 2026, limited to select firms), strong industrial/ investment demand, and global supply strains. Earlier silver fund halts (e.g., UBS SDIC in Feb/Jan 2026) were due to premiums or selloffs, but the April SHFE action was more directly a futures trading suspension.
Note: Information comes from news reports, Reddit discussions of the notice, and YouTube analyses referencing the SHFE filing—official SHFE pages showed delayed or limited data post-halt. Markets can change quickly; check SHFE/CME sites or reliable financial news for the latest status.
Charts, retaining some of my photographic memory that chart brings back a similarity retrace of 1980. If I didn’t know the difference in WHY it went up in 1980 and now due to a REAL shortage today only increasing supplies or alternatives could remedy that are currently not there and takes time that chart would worry me. The only thing thats worth worrying about besides wars affecting innocent people by the corrupt is our economy and market manipulation. The irony is weapons of war are dependent on supplies from China and Russia. I can see another reason they would be hesitant selling things that make weapons including silver that it’s said takes a pound of it a missile going kapoof
Short answer: U.S. officials say Iran has indicated it would hand over its enriched uranium, but Iran has not publicly confirmed surrendering the stockpile and details remain unclear.
Reuters
Grok changed its story about the futures halt. There have been halts here in stocks protecting hedge funds shorting so was that the reason for a halt.
I asked Grok two different ways about that. First time directly denying it was protecting shorts. Both times this time is was different. They didn’t deny any halt in trading effective April 16 but stated ALL futures trading was halted.
You can see the answer for yourself on this link. Banksters here aren’t the only ones manipulating. Infact may have gone long.
USAS is having a big day for some reason. SVM is solid too while HL and AG continue to lag. Although silver is down so they probably shouldn’t be up at all.
There’s no rhyme or reason behind these shares, just glad they’re not getting crushed again.
Hope you’re right about all that. I do agree that much of it is aimed at China as well. It also appears he’s pretty much trying to reinstate the Monroe doctrine and secure the western hemisphere. Venezuela and Greenland help shore that up. Cuba is on deck. I don’t know that he’ll have enough time though. There’s a solid chance he’s facing impeachment a year from now.
There’s an awful lot of unknowns in the world these days.
I left southern California a long time ago and warned the rest what’s coming this way and not let them get in power, management of any kind or learn the hard way. Some places did. They didn’t escape inflation though but will go after the criminals coming in.
This is one of the latest. He compared himself to the killer of the United Health CEO.
Cost mega jobs and destroyed the whole warehouse over pay. Some foreign name I can’t pronounce.
Not just Iran but all that oil and supplies. I hope it’s true that all those oil takers took off to the US to supply the other countries including our Ally’s. Then all the businesses.
Meanwhile Southern Cal learning that hiring migrants for cheap labor doesn’t work out too well. They might even want more to compensate for all that free stuff the corrupt gave them they’ll have to give up not to mention a corrupt system that doesn’t prosecute them for crimes. They don’t just leave to another job, they’ll burn the place down.
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