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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1522984, member: 15199&quot;]If you look at this file, containing all of the margin changes for silver by the CME ( they also have for gold if you want) from 2009 to current. If you notice, from 2/13/2012 to current there has been 3 margin changes, and ALL were DOWNWARD. The last change was 8/6/2012 and it was down. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/risk-management/files/SI_2009_to_present.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/risk-management/files/SI_2009_to_present.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/risk-management/files/SI_2009_to_present.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Although I have said several times, but some do not believe, ~~ The margins are to protect the CME group from sudden changes which affects their risk factors for everything from options to delivery. The company and the exchanges they have are not to facilitate trading by retail ( us), but for the equivalent of wholesale ( them). The have to provide charges for the maintenance of contract in advance, not past the fact....so when the commodities are changing faster than what they have determined as risk levels they change margins ( if silver goes up or down too fast). They are doing it to protect their stockholders ( even the common shares you or I can buy) from losses, and not someones idea of intrinsic value. People may not like it, but if you play their field, it is the rules. If commodities are stuck in a channel, they lower the margins so they can generate more traffic in trades. Silver has been stuck in a channel , so the margins have decreased over the last 6 months. Change the length of the chart to YTD, and you will see that there are many peaks and dips, and since there were only 3 margin changes, this factor could not account for all of them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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