There are some commodities plays in which large scale investments perform almost as entirely different commodities than small scale investments.
Personally I saw this in late Feb/early Mar of last year. I had bought some physical silver bars, and during the 'flash crash' saw that the price of spot silver (COMEX 5k oz contracts I believe) had dipped to $12. But at the same time every online retail store selling 1oz silver bars was sold out, and I was able to sell any inventory I wanted for $35 an oz online.
Now ignoring weirdness in the precious metals market and COMEX manipulation conspiracy stuff, I think this was due to exogenous market conditions forcing... (read more)
There are some commodities plays in which large scale investments perform almost as entirely different commodities than small scale investments.
Personally I saw this in late Feb/early Mar of last year. I had bought some physical silver bars, and during the 'flash crash' saw that the price of spot silver (COMEX 5k oz contracts I believe) had dipped to $12. But at the same time every online retail store selling 1oz silver bars was sold out, and I was able to sell any inventory I wanted for $35 an oz online.
Now ignoring weirdness in the precious metals market and COMEX manipulation conspiracy stuff, I think this was due to exogenous market conditions forcing... (read more)