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Silver just ripped 4% higher. Gold surged 2.4%. The precious metals rally has everyone celebrating.

Brandon spotted something else entirely.

Over $2 million in silver put contracts. 18,000 contracts. All bought in a single trade today at the 46.50 strike.

The timing tells you everything.

Thursday, the CME raised margin requirements on silver futures. That only happens when volatility is getting dangerous. Friday, silver barely moved. Today it exploded higher.

And right at the peak, institutional money placed their biggest downside hedge in months.

Here's what has Brandon on alert:

• Silver massively outperformed gold since April
• Gold-to-silver ratio back to last year's levels
• The gap closed too fast after the April selloff
• CME raising margins signals they see dangerous volatility ahead

Silver is an industrial metal being traded like a lottery ticket. It's leveraged, speculative, and when margins go up and weak hands get squeezed, the selling gets brutal.

Brandon pulled up the April correction. Silver can drop 30% from these levels and it would just be a normal retracement. Back to $34 on SLV. Not unusual given how far we've run.

The best part? You don't have to fight the skew in silver options. Brandon found a silver equity, HELA, offering much better pricing for downside spreads. A 13/11 put spread for around 64 cents that could return 70% if silver just pulls back to $12.

You're not calling for a crash. You're positioning for normal volatility after a parabolic move.

The institutional hedge confirms smart money sees it too.

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