Looks like the boys at the CFTC are reducing the speculator's ability to suppress prices. Part of the plan for a natural reset?
https://www.thefencepost.com/news/cftc-approves-speculative-positions-rule-with-vote-along-partisan-lines/
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8112-20
"On a 3-2 vote, the Commission approved a proposal for new and amended regulations concerning speculative position limits to conform to the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the Dodd-Frank Act) amendments to the Commodity Exchange Act.
The proposal included new and/or amended federal spot month limits for 25 physical commodity derivatives and physically-settled and linked cash-settled futures, options on futures, and economically equivalent swaps for such commodities. The proposal includes certain exemptions from position limits, such as a revised definition of “bona fide hedging transactions or positions” and an expanded list of enumerated bona fide hedges to cover additional hedging practices…
This proposed rule has a 90-day comment period ending on April 29, 2020."