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COMEX To Reach Crisis Point By This Summer?

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It Appears That Another 6.4 MILLION OZ are Preparing to Stand for March COMEX Silver Delivery.
 
March OI declined by 366 contracts Friday- with nearly half of that decline delivery notices.
March OI remains at 1,281 contracts - or 6.405 million oz.

Preliminary trading data table highlighting March 2026 open interest at 1,281 contracts, down 366

 
We suspect that the majority of these 1,281 contracts plan to stand for delivery in March - meaning another 6+ million oz of silver will be removed from COMEX vaults shortly.
 
With 33 million oz + already standing for delivery in March silver, the final numbers look likely to end up just shy of 40 million oz by the end of the month.
 
Not enough for a hard COMEX default THIS month, but enough to slice COMEX REGISTERED Silver Inventories in HALF!
 
Barring an escalation into WW3 or a complete financial collapse triggered by surging oil prices, COMEX silver inventories look likely to reach a final CRISIS POINT before the end of the summer.

Shanghai silver inventories are even worse, with TOTAL SHFE Silver Inventory now down to just 8 million oz.
8 million oz of silver TOTAL for China’s largest silver exchange!

While COMEX may survive until the summer months, the SHFE will be COMPLETELY OUT of physical silver in only a few weeks unless something changes drastically!

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