Today is :25
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Makes plenty of sense on some levels.
Forced liquidity event for leveraged investors to meet margin.
Mining stocks are easy to beat down to destroy sentiment.
April 5 US government sets a floor price for silver (maybe causing a force majeure and allowing them to settle in whatever they say the price is only with paper).
Inventory behind the futures trades reaching critical levels.
The Powers That Be want the metals prices beat down so that is what is happening.