Originally Posted by DRS112

Margin calls usually only happen when there is a drop in price....the prices had been increasing for some time...so it doesn't explain why they would have been forced to sell...and I doubt that even if they were that it would have triggered that kind of drop...being that it would be a fraction of a fraction of the market.

All commodities are down...not just gold and silver...they got too high too fast....the dollar climbed...they fell.