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If sentiment for the precious metals can be controlled by sentiment for the mining shares…
And if sentiment for the mining shares can be measured by the relative performance of a major ETF…
And if, via HFT, you can link the performance of that ETF to the price of COMEX silver…
And if you can easily control and manipulate the price of COMEX silver…
Then it’s possible to control the entire sector by simply managing the COMEX silver price.