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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1174417, member: 3011&quot;]I would just suggest that leverage is not a sign or or a cause of manipulation.&nbsp; Concentration is.&nbsp; In the silver futures market, there are no players with concentrated long positions large enough to rise to the level of &quot;manipulation.&quot;&nbsp; However, there are a handful of enormously large short postions, and the regulators don&#039;t want those firms financially damaged.&nbsp; People can legitimately speculate that if there is any manipulation going on, it is to keep the silver price lower than it would otherwise be.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think the elimination of leverage would help the markets, but if everyone had to put up 100% cash for long positions and sellers had to put up 100% physical silver to cover short positions, the silver price would be higher than it is now because it is a tiny market by world standards and there isn&#039;t really enough physical silver, which is why cash settlement is permitted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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