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Enormous Paper Silver Trading Volumes ...

Interview with Jay Taylor on August 26, 2014 discussing the Enormous paper silver trading volumes on LBMA and physical silver premia.

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Topics:

1. Continued Shanghai Gold Exchange and Shanghai Metal Exchange physical metals premia vs. LBMA/LPPM pricing:

  • SGE Gold: $1286.29 /oz & premium of $ -0.71/oz. = -.1 % premium vs LBMA
  • SGE Silver: $21.12 /oz & premium of $1.59 /oz. = +8.1% premium vs LBMA
  • SME Palladium $1,031.06 /oz & premium of $145 /oz. = 16.4% premium vs LBMA
  • SME Platinum $1,508.68 /oz & premium of $89.68 /oz = 6.3% premium vs LBMA

Moscow Exchange metal premia vs London:

  • Gold $1,497.5 /oz and premium of $210.50 /oz or 16.4% vs LBMA
  • Silver $22.73 /oz and premium of $3.20 /oz or 16.4% vs LBMA

London, China and Moscow have VAT taxes on metal purchases (Gold excluded from VAT in Shanghai and London)

2. Silver market of interest:

  • Predicted 113 M oz deficit for 2014
  • 1.4 B oz visible above ground global stocks of silver (ETFs, Swiss vaults, etc.)
  • 1.63 B oz LBMA daily trading volume of silver implies a very large open interest on the LBMA:
  • 2x daily volume multiplier = 3.3 B oz open interest for silver
    3x daily volume multiplier = 4.9 B oz open interest for silver
  • False supply of silver indicated on LBMA by billions of ounces of trading positions without allocated silver
  • Move from LBMA paper positions as LBMA paper positions lead to mispricing silver which will lead to shortages

3. Trading on the LBMA - 85% of global daily gold volume on LBMA

  • LBMA's "Loco London Liquidity Survey Q1 2011" http://www.lbma.org.uk/assets/Loco_London_Liquidity_Surveyrv.pdf
  • 10:1 daily gross trading volume vs end of day net settled volume shown on LBMA website.
  • 90% of daily LBMA gold trading in spot market
    5% in forward instruments
    5% in 'other'
  • Paper trading on LBMA leading to global shortages of precious metals through mispricing (artificially low pricing)
  • Moscow and Shanghai exchanges showing materially different pricing for metals

4. Physical exchanges:

  • Singapore Exchange online in September 2014 with 25 kg (803 oz) physically settled only gold contract
  • Shanghai Free Trade Zone exchange trading starts September 26, 2014
  • Both will provide important physical benchmark pricing for physical gold vs LBMA derivatives

5. Global Reserve Currencies

  • Have always been gold or silver
  • Paper currencies have been the trade name but they started as interchangeable with the metal itself
  • At US gold default in 1971, 6x more dollars than gold backing

6. Rising rates - impact on gold

 

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