For COMEX silver—there are currently 296,000,000 ounces of silver stored in the COMEX vaulting system. This compares to a total COMEX silver contract open interest of 220,000 contracts. At 5,000 digital ounces/contract, the ratio of leverage of digital to vaulted physical is3.72 times. Stated another way, there are 3.72 ounces of tradable silver exposure for every one physical ounce in the vaults (both eligible and registered).
For COMEX gold, there are reported to be 8,221,512 physical ounces in the COMEX vaults versus a total open interest of 480,000 contracts, representing 48,000,000 ounces of digital gold. That makes the ratio of digital to physical leverage 5.85 times.Now check this.
For COMEX palladium, there are reported to be just 42,583 ounces in the vaults. Again, that's BOTH eligible AND registered. However, there are currently 28,846 contracts of open interest. At 100 digital ounces per contract, that's 2,884,600 ounces of digital palladium exposure. Applying the same math as above, we find that the COMEX palladium market exists upon leverage of 67.3 times
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