Comment Text:
Please sirs,
If there is a severe economic crisis caused by hyperinflation, you will not have protected us from criminals and their actions in manipulating the commodities markets, particularly the silver market. History shows that those who support or abet these criminals are eventually severely punished, if only as an historical footnote as having acted against the good of common men - please choose not to be one. This is in no way a threat, simply a reminder of history's tendency to balance wrong actions with corrective actions.
Also,
Dear Chairman Gensler and fellow Commissioners:
I urge you to approve the staff’s proposal on position limits, including limiting exemptions to bona fide hedgers. I would ask you, however, to readjust the proposed formula in silver. The current formula would result in a position limit of over 5,000 contracts for any single speculator, on an all-months-combined basis. 5,000 contracts is the equivalent of 25 million ounces of silver. This is too high of a threshold in light of the realities of the world silver market.
There are only three mining companies in the world who produce more than 25 million ounces of silver per year and only a similar number of industrial consumers using more than that amount. Any speculator holding an amount of silver derivatives greater than what 99% of the world’s silver producers and consumers make or use in a year would have inordinate pricing power. The purpose of speculative position limits is to prevent such a circumstance.
Please institute a 1500 contract (7.5 million ounce) position limit for silver.
Respectfully submitted,
Richard W McAllister
