@TFTC Interactive Brokers is also increasing margin requirements for strategy products. Bumping shorts to 150% seems the weirdest part to me. It prevents small traders from hedging but won’t stop adversarial big banks from shorting in the slightest.

Convinced a close friend to rotate out a gold position into bitcoin a few weeks ago. Feels like a win

Financial attack or manufactured crude shortage? #asknostr Interesting framing on zerohedge article (gold tilt). The punch line is that counties that host US military bases are being targeted to undermine the dollar. Iran pulled a bold move hitting the surrounding oil refineries and storage. My initial thought was that Iran was applying global pressure for negotiations. Would China care if they could just replace the oil? Europe will keep quiet if Saudi ships the petro. Russia wants to maintain military markets (s300) and allies after Venezuela. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bretton-whoops