michael mando

CME pit trader for 25 years. SPX, SPY, ES AND M2K

[michael mando @mando1221]

@asklivermore What time frame?

[Don Johnson @DonMiami3]

Diesel just 44 cents from an all-time high

At an all time high in California, AZ and elsewhere now

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

‼️HOUSE GOP KNOWS IT’S OVER

- 36 House GOP retirements so far (a record)

- Trump Approval: ~40%

- When POTUS approval is under 50% in midterms, POTUS party loses avg of 34 seats. Smallest: 9

- Trump lost 40 in 2018 with 40% approval

- House Currently 217-214 for GOP

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

Option 1, rent a house for $2500/month

Option 2, give the bank $100,000 and pretend you own a house for $4000/month knowing $2700 is going to interest.

[OptionScalps @optionscalps]

Also help me break 4k subs and retweet!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American is staying at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas

He says he just got there and he’s already spent $200 on bare necessities

- He just touched the coffee K cups, but because there is a sensor and he picked them up they charged a $19.99 restock fee
- He ordered egg fried rice, it was $23 with a service fee of $15. If you go to the lobby it’s a $3 lobby fee to get it
- Getting money was a $12 ATM fee
- $50 resort fee
- He bought water, it was outrageous
- No free bottle waters, no free coffee
- Everything is on scales, if you touch it there’s mandatory fees

“The entire operations of this place is illegal and it needs to be shut down — I’m calling the FBI”

“Never ever in your life for any reason whatsoever, no matter the discount, no matter the reason, no matter the time of day, never stay at this place, okay? I've been here for less than— well, about 24 hours at this point. I've spent no less than $200 just surviving on the bare necessities”

“Don’t come to Las Vegas”

[Stoic Trader @StoicTA]

I'm going to say something that most of trading Twitter will hate me for, and I genuinely do not care anymore.

if you are a beginner trader, the single best thing you can do right now is close this app, close YouTube, and stop trying to learn technical analysis

not "learn less" stop completely

every hour you spend watching someone draw lines on a chart is an hour you could have spent placing a trade and actually learning what it feels like to have money on the line

the screen time is making you worse, not better

more knowledge does not equal more profit, it equals more hesitation

trading has two buttons, buy and sell
your only job is to press one of them, manage the risk, and learn from what happens next

that's the whole game

but that message doesn't make anyone money, so instead you get ICT concepts repackaged twelve different ways, prop firm affiliates telling you evals are "tuition," and influencers who make more from your confusion than they've ever made from a single trade

so here's my new policy

if your account exists to promote ICT, shill prop firm evals, or spray affiliate links everywhere, you're getting blocked on sight

I'm done pretending that stuff is harmless

it's not harmless, it's an industry built on keeping beginners trapped in a cycle of paying and losing

Stop learning and start doing

The chart is free!

The lessons are in the execution, not the education.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Mark Zuckerberg becomes latest California billionaire to relocate to Florida amid tax concerns, per FOX

[Stoic Trader @StoicTA]

Topstep has just become the BOTTOM step

They count money you haven't even lost yet against your daily loss limit

Let me explain...

You open a trade. The market dips for a second. Your trade is red, not because you sold, just because the price moved against you for a moment.

That counts as a loss. Even though you haven't closed the trade. Even though it might come back in the next minute.

If that temporary red number gets big enough? They shut you down. Close your trade. Lock you out for the rest of the day.

The trade could've been a winner. Doesn't matter. You'll never know.

It's like buying a house and the bank says "the value dropped this morning so we're taking it back." You didn't sell. You didn't lose anything. It just dipped. But they call it a loss anyway.

Now add this, they also count your fees against you. Every commission, every charge, all of it goes into that same daily loss limit.

So you're not just fighting the market. You're fighting the clock, the fees, and a rule that punishes you for trades that haven't even finished yet.

This is supposed to test if you can trade.

But no real trader in the world operates like this. No hedge fund. No prop desk. Nobody!

Because it's not a trading rule. It's a trap door. And every time you fall through it, you pay to try again.

Wake the f up traders, you deserve better than this!

[Dan Cooke @dancooketrades]

🚨THE @Topstep LIVE DREAM IS OVER🚨

My dream:
⭐️ 5 x 50K funded accounts ✅
⭐️$2,000 balance in each account ✅
⭐️$10,000 in a live account, with bonuses along the way ⏳

The reality now:
🗑️Access to only 20% of profits
🗑️20% of $10,000 = $2,000 in a live account
🗑️Intra day drawdown
🗑️The other 80% of my profits locked up.

The dream was so close, but it’s now over…😔

[DCP @Dcpcooks]

On the floor we used to have a 100 square pool with a 10k per square buy in for the Super Bowl

Winner usually got around 650k in cash

[PaxTrader777🇺🇸 @paxtrader777]

@Dcpcooks It was a winner take all payout, 1M minus the organizer’s 15%. If you won, you got a duffle bag with $850k in it.

[Shibo @GodsBurnt]

JP Morgan Chase has an infinite money glitch:

- Hire traders to spoof the markets
- Manipulate prices for years
- Get convicted of fraud
- Treat the legal fees as "business expenses"

They were caught in 2022, nothing has changed.

Is this a bank or a legalized crime syndicate?

[Bark @barkmeta]

🚨 SILVER PRICE MANIPULATION EXPLAINED, HISTORY REPEATING

In 2020, a JP Morgan paid nearly $1 BILLION IN FINES for manipulating Gold and Silver futures. They were caught running a criminal enterprise from their trading desk.

Fast forward to today: We just saw an “Undisclosed Bank” get bailed out for a multi billion dollar short position on Silver. Sound familiar? The playbook hasn't changed… It’s HAPPENING AGAIN.

Here’s what’s happening:
1. They crash the paper price of Silver.
2. Trigger stop losses.
3. Cover their shorts.
4. Retail traders get punished.

They paid the fine in 2020 because they made billions doing the crime. It’s all calculated. They are now doing it again right IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE 🪙📉📈

[Shibo @GodsBurnt]

🚨 BIG METAL IS SUPPRESSING THE PRICE OF SILVER 📉

Reports are coming out globally that physical silver is trading at a premium compared to paper prices

In Tokyo people are paying $130+ per ounce

Paper silver is trading for $71

THE SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN

[Bark @barkmeta]

🚨 THEY ARE RIGGING SILVER TO SAVE THE BANKS.

The charts say SILVER is $71, but actual prices on street are much higher.

🇯🇵 Physical Silver $130
🇦🇪 Physical Silver $115
🇨🇳 Physical Silver $110
🇺🇸 COMEX Paper Silver $71

How is this possible? Because if SILVER charts go to $130 (the TRUE value), several banks go insolvent OVERNIGHT from margin called short positions.

They’re using paper contracts to force the SILVER price down and protect them from liquidation. The charts are a lie.

We are witnessing MANIPULATION on a scale that’s never been seen before.

When the short positions are offloaded, silver price will go vertical to catch up 🪙📈

[Jacob Canfield @JacobCanfield]

It looks like CME is trying to kill the metals rally.

Another margin hike on gold, silver, platinum and palladium is hitting tomorrow.

[Thomas Young @tomyoungjr]

Panic at CME? Sure looks that way.

Raising margins 2 times in 3 days with short notice will force liquidations at the market.

CME Casino is raising Silver margin collateral 30% with less than 24 hours notice.

A de facto market manipulation and CME knows it. They will say that this is a normal procedure. I say bullshit.

It will be wild if the market shakes this off and rises into Jan 2 trading dealing with the China export restrictions on Silver.

[Luckshury @Luckshuryy]

what a failed auction looks like when new shorts pile in below a key level.

[Terel Miles - Freedom Stocks @FreedomStocks]

🚨 THE CME GROUP JUST PULLED THE RUG ON #SILVER 🚨

If you watched the price action today, this is a MUST read.

Earlier today, December 26, 2025, the CME Group (COMEX) dropped a bombshell: Advisory #25-393.

Effective Monday, December 29, they are hiking silver margin requirement...AGAIN.

I warned you back on November 27th when they halted the markets for "technical issues":

"The CME Group are scammers. No valid reason why commodity futures trading was halted...Just as #Silver is about to breakout.

Silver is the most manipulated asset on earth because it is the most UNDERVALUED. They can only manipulate the paper prices for so long."

The "technical issues" didn't stop the squeeze.

So now, they’ve moved to their final weapon:

The Margin Hike.

THE "SILVER THURSDAY" PLAYBOOK:

If you’re new to this, you need to understand history.

When Wall Street is about to lose, the "house" LOVES changing the rules.

🔹1980 (The Hunt Brothers): When the Hunts tried to corner the market, the exchange implemented "Silver Rule 7," jacking up margins until the brothers were forced to liquidate. Silver crashed from nearly $50 to $10 in two months.
🔹2011 Squeeze: Silver touched $49.50. The CME raised margins five times in nine days. The result? A 30% plunge in weeks as leverage was sucked out.

They are trying to run the same script in 2025.

But this time, it’s different.

WHAT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING: THE LIQUIDITY VACUUM

The CME isn't just raising prices; they are creating a technical "vacuum" designed to force you out of your position.

Here are the receipts:

🔹The $25,000 Wall (Advisory #25-393): Initial margins for March 2026 contracts have jumped toward $25,000—up from $20,000 just weeks ago.
🔹The "Whale Trap" (Notice #MSN12-11-25): This refers to Rule 112, which governs "Position Limits." They are literally capping how many contracts one entity can hold to prevent "whales" from demanding physical delivery of metal the COMEX doesn't have.
🔹The Forced Exit: If you don't have the extra cash in your account by Monday, you’re liquidated. Period.

They aren't protecting the market.

They are protecting the shorts.

SHANGHAI VS. COMEX: THE TRUTH IS IN THE EAST

Even with the CME trying to crush the price, the physical market is exploding.

🔹Shanghai Price: ~$82.14/oz.
🔹COMEX Price: ~$79.67/oz.

The spread is still massive.

In a normal market, this gap is pennies.

It’s staying wide because there isn't enough physical metal to move West.

The "Arbitrage" is broken because the vaults are empty.

WHY THIS SQUEEZE IS UNSTOPPABLE

Unlike 1980, this isn't just two brothers. This is Industrial Gravity.

Vault Exodus: In the first four days of December alone, 60% of all registered silver was claimed for delivery.

The Jan 1st Cliff: China is restricting exports in exactly 6 days.

The CME can raise margins to 100%, but that only affects the "Paper" gamblers.

It doesn't create a single new ounce of silver for the manufacturers who are now panicking.

THE BOTTOM LINE: The West prices silver on leverage. The East prices silver on scarcity.

When the "Infinite Paper Supply" hits the "Finite Physical Vault," the price doesn't just go up—it RESETS COMPLETELY.

Triple digit #silver is no longer a "maybe."

In my view, It is a mathematical inevitability.

Know what you hold, but PREPARE for EXTREME volatility.

If you found this valuable, like and repost to expose the clear FRAUD and MANIPULATION.

The "Paper Scam" is ending. 🦍🥈 #silversqueeze #COMEX #CMEGroup