CME

GreedyTexas

We are raising margin limits because we don’t want poors making money - CME probably

sl3azebag

and you think an already highly pumped SLV with CME margin calls and weak chinese guidance (given that they could switch up any day) is the move?

JJdante

Just learned that the CME kept the margin rates elevated for 9 months after raising them in 2011, so people shouldn't expect a reversal on that anytime soon. All this talk about decoupling from physical prices in Shanghai is interesting; but I think it's obvious that things would really have to be wildly different for the CME to change its playbook.

ThatOneRedditBro

Silver is already coiling to the upside after the historic CME margin raise.

whomakesthetendies

Member the CME outage because of 'cooling'?

Terrible-Session5028

Yea, Puts. CME raised the margin requirements again.

warpedspockclone

Ho-lee shit. If these were OCC options, I'd run, but frankly I don't know how CME option assignment works. I guess I should read up before being alarmist.

hiphopanonomos

CME ticker is up LOL

ShittyUsernane1222

I hope Hindenburg research writes a research paper on CME and comex before giving them the GME shorted-to-the-basement treatement pre-deepfuckingvalue.

ThatFUTGuy

CME said that’s enough of you guys getting rich off silver, back down she goes 💰

MindH1ve

CME hiked margin requirements by 30% last night.

funcuddles

CME keeps raising margins on futures for metals to tamp down speculation, all of them are getting hit. Be patient

Gbb331

No buy the miners. They are leveraged bets on silver anyways and SLV can get slammed by CME rule changes.

Gbb331

When it comes to silver the CME changed the rules for the 3rd time this month. THEY ARE DESPERATE! Silver going to run 2026 and it looks like they trying to stop it.

Gbb331

Buy the miners or physical not anything else short dated. The CME manipulated the price by changing the rules for the 3rd time this month it's just a gamble and the manipulators is in charge.

fire_alarmist

\*This comment bought and paid for by the CME\*

whomakesthetendies

How to short CME group??

whomakesthetendies

CME massively increased margin and maintenance requirements AGAIN https://www.cmegroup.com/notices/clearing/2025/25-399.html

AcademicStandard3701

CME could raise the requirement to $50k and people are still gonna buy. They need to disable the buy button.

Goody2Shoes92

What's next CME short ladder attack?

whomakesthetendies

CME the scam of a generation https://www.cmegroup.com/notices/clearing/2025/25-399.html

hungover247365

CME tried to shut down Gold and Silver Gold and Silver immediately rallies in Asia and Europe sessions. CME will need to raise margins again and again and again, The world knows that the Fed is printing hard, and the next Fed Chair will likely print harder. People will increasingly only believe in real money Gold/Silver and USD will be fuk.

Zenyatta166

Watch the CME continue raising margin requirements correspondingly...

SolomonKings7

For futures, you need both initial and maintenance margin. Since CME recently increased the maintenance margin, it’s getting expensive to go long, since you need to put more cash for each contract.

Aggressive-Ad-2707

U can thank CME for manipulating SLV

Aggressive-Ad-2707

FK u CME

ClearResident1292

Margin requirement system is so dated. Banks can leverage to the tits on bad bets and tap into the repo market or get bailed out by the fed for the forth time but the average buyer in a free market must continue to get priced out of their positions by a dated CME. I hope silver sits at 200/oz if it means I can buy ram again. Turn the profit margins to mush on this AI/EV/Solar slop that they push down our throats.

kialabearx

We all are understimating the sheer number, % of folks speculating on commodities, especially precious metals. Except real industrial players (who use the metal for manufacturing, maintaining etc), almost everyone else is a speculator in silver. Including institutional buyers. CME hiking the margin requirements will significantly cool off the really, Everyone will tend to offload their contracts and stay away from buying. Especially big money. Because they can go and speculate elsewhere. That will correct the prices sharply for n metals (except gold) in next couple of weeks.

MRgainzenwatch

Chinas offering more money for silver than the CME is, isn’t that just capitalism? 

ArtichokePower

Which exacerbates the problem because any silver that does enter the market immediately gets vacuumed up by china. Like why would a mine sell to COMEX when it can sell to shanghai or india? Fucking stooges at COMEX bending over backwards to protect shorts. Eventually the gov will have to get involved and ban silver exports or there will be no silver left for critical industries and our military. They should try CME management as traitors to the US.

Terrible-Session5028

The CME just raised the margin requirement to 30%. Not sure if you guys heard.

pmotiveforce

CME can't stop physical demand. They are pissing in the wind.

hungover247365

Legit question to Silver bulls, CME can keep raising margin rates, to suppress prices, so even if enough buyers "buy the dip" they can increase the margins over and over again with higher and higher frequency. So do y'all really think Silver 100-120 is a reality in 2026?

InvestigatorPlus3229

CME upping the margin requirement again

leomeng

It’s CME covering for the banks who are gonna get blown out

schnitzel

CME you silly goose, giving me another buyin opportunity, about to 10x calls and shares in the am on SLV

Disada1

Keep fighting the CME

DrElkSnout

That's two bottle of scotch I have to buy (x2 CME margin increases). For each $10 rise in silver price AFTER these, I will drink one of those bottles.

hungover247365

https://preview.redd.it/0ugl57spmgag1.jpeg?width=454&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d24503a539cb22f215c3e12e0af9842e0c08df5d CME is asking Silver bros what this Pokemon is.

Round-Papaya-9836

CME is hiking margins on precious metals yet again to deter longs. 

callsonreddit

So in some ways I wasn't wrong to buy SLV on Fri. CME partly tanked it on Mon

gomper

CME raised margin requirements again and force liquidated a lot of holdings. Its one of their tricks. But the scarcity is not going away anytime soon

Round-Papaya-9836

CME is suppressing metals hard, this is another GameStop waiting to happen. 

drakilian

Don't worry, it'll punp after tomorrow, right before CME raises margin requirements again.

Disada1

Keep buying silver, I’m sure you’ll beat the CME

Impossible-Fun2027

Is CME margin hike confirmed?

Impossible-Fun2027

CME hikes margin rates a second time for SILVER, so why it shoots up now?

Horcsogg

How many times can faken CME hike rates for silver? What's the highest they can go and what is it at now?

AdCritical5383

CME raising margin requirements won’t alone affect equities.

hungover247365

Any news? Or is CME dragging equities down along with it with the margin hike?

OkResponsibility2470

CME trying to recreate 2011 lmao. Got puts on a whim and seems they’re gonna hit

DefiantDelta

CME is so fearful of the whole thing breaking down that they just fully shut off for 10 hours only a few weeks ago. They can’t raise margin requirements enough to keep Pandora’s box shut forever

drakilian

Oh wow more market manipulation thank you CME Now I'm torn between calls on silver due to unervaluation and scarcity and putson silver due to blatant, obvious, heavy handed market manipulation to reduce its paper price.

Rayn7Reborn

It’s literally being manipulated by CME. This won’t end well. Physical is $90 on major markets. This is just pulling back on the slingshot. It worked in 2011, it won’t this time.

cow_grass

CME can't keep getting away with this!

FeelTheEarporn

lol second margin increase by CME. Silver 30%!! Now

Dawnchaffinch

CME will jack rates again imo

xwads

CME raising margin rates on silver again, almost like it could be 2011 all over again :)

MasterElite1

>Gold Silver Platinum Palladium Futures Alert >CME hikes margin rates a second time in a week. >*Massive* increases : Gold 9%, Silver 30%, Platinum 25%, Palladium 22% They do not want you to have real money in debasement. The point is wealth transfer. To them.

therpgrad

CME is raising margin capital requirements by 10%+ again at market close tomorrow: [https://www.cmegroup.com/notices/clearing/2025/25-399.html](https://www.cmegroup.com/notices/clearing/2025/25-399.html)

AKNJ907

SLV pullback was due to the margin repricing by CME. Quarterzips don’t return from Aspen until Monday. Time for the march to $100 with plenty of rugs and fuckery along the way.

ByahhByahh

Someone at CME: PAMP SUISSE IT

JayRoo83

Hey CME group, any chance you want to change the margin requirements on silver again to make my 1k in puts go up $250

Clear_Anything1232

All the big guns from CME came out yesterday just to save some idiots who shorted silver Bought them just a single day lol This is so entertaining to watch and I don't even hold any silver positions 😂

DrElkSnout

Another CME margin hike incoming in....

hungover247365

I think any exposure to SLV at 70+ is suicide, if one CME margin hike won't kill the speculation, you can be sure another one is in the pipeline. The administration don't want Silver to be a monetary metal, its industrial uses are far too great to let the prices run wild.

Clear_Anything1232

Get fucked CME Stupid market manipulating thugs

ClarkNova80

Son. You weren’t even a twinkle in your mother’s eye when I started down this road. I’ve been in this game WAAAY too long to be in school. Take a step back and think about what you are claiming. That the CME would literally destroy their entire institution over what? Helping a few desks make a quick buck for one session? Yesterday’s move was a transfer. Not money vanishing. Rough math because I truly can be assed any further with you. It was on the order of $6.6B of mark to market swing in silver and roughly $9.8B in gold so about $16B across the two. That’s exactly what a mechanical reset looks like when the whole street is leaning the same way. I’m sure the SEC has your name on a plaque and a corner office waiting for you. And while I appreciate your dedication to sleuthing out the corruption with “enthusiasm” and your completely original use of name calling and insults, I have better shit to do today. Truly, Done with this. Jonny Salami

Curious_me_too

I do event based investing. Currently building up position looking forward to these events 1. Supreme court ruling on Tariff 2. new Fed chair appointment news and what it will mean for interest rate cuts 3. holiday sales data release 4. Nvidia H200 shipping data to china, when they start shipping. To me, next FOMC will be just as expected. CME Fedwatch has 82% expectation of no cuts.

Clear_Anything1232

CME manipulates during their night and they buy everything during their day

ClarkNova80

CME does not give a shit if silver goes up or down. They are not trading the market. They are running a clearinghouse. Their only job is to make sure nobody blows up and fails to settle. When a market gets crowded and leveraged, the risk is not price direction, it is counterparty risk. Raising margin is how they force people to either put up more cash or cut size so the system does not snap. Sometimes that causes a crash. Sometimes it causes a squeeze. CME does not care which way it goes. In this case everyone was long, so the pressure was down. If everyone had been short, the same margin hike would have ripped the market higher.

DrElkSnout

Last crack down on silver and gold was 11 days long. I really, really need a similar performance so I can toss the rest of this money at HL, CDE and NEM. Come on CME, do your thing!

J0hnnyBlazer

only a idiot who has zero clue wtf going on would say that though as respons to comment you responded to. The timing of margin changes is the manipulation. CME waits for price surge, raises margins, forces liquidations that crash the price. Banks and clearing members know this will happen. It's a tool that consistently punishes longs and helps shorts cover. the physical metal price like silver remains at a 8$ premium and if physical trades at a premium for a period like its been doing for more than a month, that means futures are wrong, not the other way around. which means "lol yeah profit taking" remains completely oblivious to wtf going on and the amount of smug oblivious stupidity you packed into such short sentence remains impressive

J0hnnyBlazer

This is complete horseshit framing. Just because something happens mechanically doesn't mean it's not manipulated. The TIMING of margin changes is the manipulation. CME waits for price surge, raises margins, forces liquidations that crash the price. Banks and clearing members know this will happen. It's a tool that consistently punishes longs and helps shorts cover "working exactly the way it should" = "It always works this way therefore it's correct." while completely ignoring whether the mechanism itself is the problem. if physical trades at a premium, that means futures are wrong, not the other way around "arbitrage is functioning" If arbitrage was working, premiums would close. "You should have seen it coming" lol, its clear you have basic understanding, but in a autism way

yoshimidabotkiller

Looks like I was right. Exchange operator CME raised margin requirements across a range of metals contracts, effectively slamming the brakes on last week's massive rally in precious metals.

ClarkNova80

This is a classic futures washout and working exactly the way it always has and should. No manipulation here. Silver ran hot, leverage exploded, CME raised margins, funds were forced to cover or sell, and price collapsed mechanically. That is literally how the clearing system protects itself when positioning becomes one sided. As far as the strange turn you took on your conclusions… price discovery is still primarily set by futures. Shanghai premiums tell you tight local physical supply and market frictions not fake pricing or a broken COMEX. Physical can trade at a premium for months when demand exceeds deliverable metal but the global benchmark is still anchored to futures as long as arbitrage is functioning. TLDR Leverage got too high, margins went up, weak hands were forced out, and the paper price reset. Physical staying bid just means supply is tight not that the futures market failed.

Amarillycool

😅 After CME announced their hiking margins everyone already knew Monday was going to open red. It is what happens in the coming days that is interesting. It's like being proud of calling out that a stock will go down on Monday after the company got sued on Saturday. If you can't change your position before the market opens everyone already knows.

therpgrad

We're likely in for half a month of a combination of sideways and downwards movements while the new CME margin capital requirements shake out some of the over-leveraged futures speculators. We could be also seeing a lot of overnight liquidations over the next few days, which will further depress prices, due to poorly tuned risk-assessment models. Once gold consolidates for a few days and starts an uptrend, then it'll be time to amp up the leverage again. This will, likely, correspond with the Lunar New Year, which is one of the biggest buying periods for gold.

DrElkSnout

Wish I could help you. My best guess is that another CME margin hike is coming. However, keep in mind that the rumors are that China is limiting silver exports on Jan. 1, 2026. I think that was priced in with this morning's early run-up and now subsequent sell-off. I think the name of the game here is to own shares in miners or ETFs. Options.... risky business at this point unless they're LEAPs. Good luck.

Organic-Lie4759

Margin increased on silver by cme me ght be part of it Surging silver and gold slide after CME raises margin requirements | AP News https://share.google/9TYgeczlMDU415BhI

-TrueFacts-

Thinking of lobbying for CME to get a futures offering covering human shit (fertiliser etc) - but then I remembered there's already bitcorn and real corn I guess

Rogue_Raider69

Banks short silver on comex and comex and also CME which handles buy / sell contracts had a margin call signal for banks that are actively shorting silver. $77.19 was a signal to banks for margin calls so they were able to get comex and CME to give them more buying power.

Difficult-Level7038

If everyone on here was serious about going balls deep on silver today, they would embrace this little flash crash right?  If they want to control the price from getting out of control, why would they do something that makes the price go down significantly? There's still a demand for it so even more people are gonna buy it. Which is going to make it go even higher, right?  The CME hiked margin requirements earlier this month and it had little effect on the price so what gives now? Does this mean it was really the peak?

Complex-Note-5274

Man wish I'd seen the CME announcement friday. At least Im never leveraged to the tits

stackin_neckbones

This silver dump is because CME group increased margin requirements a second time. Idk if it’s going to work tho

stackin_neckbones

Hold the line on silver. Fuck CME group

Sidney1973

Thanks CME, for fucking up precious metals.

piss_stored_in_balls

CME turned off the buy button and a bank collapsed. Couple good reasons

Tacosal-pastor

SLV is dropping because: The [CME Group](https://www.google.com/search?q=CME+Group&rlz=1C1CAFC_enUS884US884&oq=did+the+comex+increase+the+margin+of+silver+today&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigAdIBCDg5MTFqMWo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&mstk=AUtExfCY9AEpELdYqCJC3DwVl8IC1tLFLHR1LCUbeVOe2tqsi8nn8HJYKnvoPuwcXVrtaP-w23LcnOICFQnJNatMJjCg0Dhxr89QC5iepGjVVG6Bd7jXC9k93AspYx47ZE2s15_Ykef8A99c0OKd2Wm3F-VzBifbsDcNp_WnBnU3x3yA99vE04zv_WuVMoYqZ_aUL4sBOUw0k1iPvbm9A8H1bMSENZYcPi60Pd9BOCD6Ez6sozz6nEF40ndN3C8-TfkCPPDdz3yqu4Lm_OOwkF9Kwz8xHtUE60QwBvkcxq-zVHG2qw&csui=3&ved=2ahUKEwi8rcf99-KRAxXkEEQIHZaTPBEQgK4QegQIARAB) (which runs the COMEX) did increase margin requirements for silver futures, effective today, December 29, 2025, raising the initial margin to around $25,000 for March 2026 contracts, leading to significant selling and profit-taking in silver markets as it cools down from record highs.  **Key Details:** * **Effective Date:** December 29, 2025. * **New Margin:** Approximately $25,000 per contract (up from $22,000 or $20,000). * **Reason:** The exchange cited increased volatility and the need to manage risk as silver prices surged. * **Market Impact:** This increase forced leveraged traders to deposit more collateral or reduce positions, triggering sell-offs and corrections in both COMEX and MCX (Indian) silver markets.  This move by the CME aims to curb excessive speculation and follows a massive rally in silver prices, bringing relief to some markets while causing sharp price drops. 

Wowmuchrya

Generational decade long silver baggies will be made today on open due to CME margin calls LMAO

Clear_Anything1232

There you go. CME got silver crushed Just like the 1970s and 2011 They won't win this time. We will be back soon.

TrueEntrepreneur3118

Buckle up folks: There isn’t enough Silver to unwind JP Morgan’s short position without driving silver prices insanely high. If that happens then…… Industry estimates suggest eight major bullion banks (JP Morgan, Citibank, HSBC, Scotiabank, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank) collectively hold 400-600 million ounce commercial short position, meaning if JP Morgan's 200 million ounce position created $4.8 billion loss, total industry losses approach $10-15 billion across all institutions, with additional contagion risk through CME Group default fund of only $2.5 billion insufficient to cover JP Morgan failure requiring assessments from other clearing members already facing their own silver losses creating cascading insolvency risk.

GoZukkYourself

On December 26, 2025, the CME Group announced an increase in margin requirements for silver futures. Starting December 29, 2025, the initial margin for March 2026 silver contracts will rise to $25,000. This move comes amid rising silver prices and growing concern about market manipulation. The CME’s decision is seen as another attempt to control silver’s price during a period of increased demand.

smart_doge

And CME thought $25k margin requirement would control Silver 😂

DrElkSnout

Expected. Will get worse tomorrow as CME raised margin requirements. What this gap up showed is is that after the margin requirements are met it's going to gap up again in a month or two. I'm buying al the dips with both fists.

thisisintheway

In 2011, margins started at ~4% of notional—meaning you could control $100 of silver with $4 of capital. That’s 25x leverage. Degenerate stuff. CME ratcheted margins to ~10% over a few weeks, leverage collapsed from 25x to 10x, and the forced liquidation cascade murdered the rally. Today? We’re already at ~17% of notional. Six times leverage. That’s tighter than the WORST point of 2011. Not a lot of speculators trading paper this time. This is a race for the physical.

CheapComb

Good question.  In late Nov, a COMEX data center had a "cooling" issue that forced them to shut down their servers. This coincided with a sharp spike in Silver earlier that day. It was a clear breakout if you watch the chart.  It was so clear they were going to have structural deficit problems after that, I went long in early December.  Its my suspicion that there was likely a large Chinese bank that tried to move a lot of silver all at once out of COMEX, and someone high ranking stepped in to tell them not to.  Data center cooling issue halts world's largest derivatives exchange — CME trading shutdown ripples across Malaysia, UK, and EU markets | Tom's Hardware https://share.google/x1XtBxPpbyYalwYWt

OnlySiennaTay

CME is going to raise margins through the roof tomorrow afternoon if we have a 5%+ day....

OnlySiennaTay

Do we have a drinking game everytime the CME raise metal margins this week?

DrElkSnout

We're about to learn things about what the CME is willing to do when shit gets real.