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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PeacePeople, post: 2477250, member: 20082&quot;]I agree with this for the most part.&nbsp; I believe that a lot of the large end users aren&#039;t buying from the futures market.&nbsp; People like Bron Sucheki (sp) and others in the industry continue to allude to the OTC market or over the counter.&nbsp; The biggest of reasons to use the OTC is cash flow and just in time inventory.&nbsp; They&#039;re more likely to buy a component that goes into their products as needed as opposed to putting months of inventory into a vault to suck up their cash.</p><p><br /></p><p>My belief of who or what truly controls the futures is the bullion banks and miners.&nbsp; The miners are selling forward for cash and the bullion banks are taking the forward inventories in and putting them into the market.&nbsp; Granted they&#039;re putting it into the market at whatever multiple they use, but it&#039;s still those 2 that are dominating the futures.&nbsp; Most of the others are there to get a shave.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will add that there are probably more than a few with over 1000 ounces, and I didn&#039;t want to turn this into a roll call thread.&nbsp; I was making the point that even if you have 10,000 ounces, that nothing considering that is traded in milliseconds, or if you hold 100,000 it might actually take a full second to trade.&nbsp; I hope that clarifies that point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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